Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 61

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[61] λέγεται γάρ, ὅτι ἠναγκάσθη ὁ δείλαιος αὐτοχειρίᾳ κτεῖναι ἑαυτὸν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἀνεδέξατο συμφορὰν ἡ γυνή, καίτοι ποτὲ νομισθεῖσα διὰ συνηθείας αὐτῷ γενέσθαι· βέβαιον
δὲ οὐδέν φασι τῶν ἐν ἔρωτι φίλτρων εἶναι διὰ τὸ τοῦ πάθους ἁψίκορον.

Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Legatio Ad Gaium (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. pera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 61 focus

[61] For it is said that the wretched man was compelled to kill himself with his own hand; and his wife, too, experienced the same misery, even though she indeed had at one time been believed to be on the most intimate terms of familiarity with Caius; but they say that none of the allurements of love are stable and trustworthy because it is a passion which quickly breeds satiety.

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