Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 75

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[75] διὰ μὲν τῆς Σιλανοῦ σφαγῆς τοῖς
βουλευταῖς — ἦν γὰρ οὐδενὸς τῶν ἐν συγκλήτῳ δεύτερος —, διὰ δὲ τῆς Μάκρωνος τοῖς ἱππικοῖς — οἷα γὰρ χοροῦ τινος ἡγεμὼν ἐγεγένητο φερόμενος τὰ πρωτεῖα τιμῆς καὶ εὐδοξίας —, διὰ δὲ τῆς τοῦ ἀνεψιοῦ καὶ συγκληρονόμου τοῖς ἀφ’ αἵματος ἅπασιν, οὐκέτι ἠξίου μένειν ἐν τοῖς ¹² τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως ὅροις, ἀλλ’ ὑπερέκυπτε σπουδάζων θεὸς νομίζεσθαι.

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.) — 75 focus

[75] (for he was inferior to no one in the senate), and the knights by the execution of Macro (for he, like the leader of a chorus, had long been considered the very first man of the knights for reputation and glory), and all his blood relations by the slaughter of his cousin and joint inheritor of the kingdom, he no longer chose to remain fettered by the ordinary limits of human nature, but aspired to raise himself above them, and desired to be looked upon as a god.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 δὲ A (Mang.): om. ceteri (Turn.) σιλανῶ . . . σιλανὸς H1, σιλβανῶ . . . σιλβανὸς H2L ἔπαθεν] ἐποίησεν coni. Mang.
2 τὸν ante πενθερὸν add. MAH (v), om. CGO γνήσιον πατέρα transp.
3 παρ’ CG: παρὰ ceteri γεννωμένων Turn.
4 ἐξουσίαις] ἐν οὐσίαις Turn. δευτερεῖα] τὰ δευτερεῖα H2L (v)
6 τῶ ante θανάτῳ add. MAH (v), om. CGO συντεθνήκει Mang.
7 ὀθνίων CG ἀλλοτρίωσιν Α
8 συνάγων] μετάγουσαι Mang. ex Anton. Mel., μετάγων Cohu τῆς κοινωνίας] πρὸς κοινωνίαν A 8.
9 μάλισθ’ A
9 ἐπανορθώτω OA εἰς om. L
10 τοιαῦτ’ Α, καὶ τοιαῦτα M ἐθρύλουν CG: ἐθρύλλουν ceteri (v)
11 διδόντες] αὐτοὶ τοῖς λόγοις εἰσφέρειν δοκοῦντες A (mavult Mang.) μέρος] βάρος coni. Mang. βουλεύεσθαι L δοκεῖν om. M (sic mavult Mang.)
13 ἐνιδρύεσθαι A
14 ἀθρόαν μεταβολὴν οὕτως ἐνδέδεικται transp. Α ἐνδέδεκται Η: ἐνδέδεικται ceteri
17 pr. τοῦ om. M
18 περιγεγενημένος CGM: περιγενόμενος Α (Mang.), περιγεγενημένου H (Turn.), om. καταπληκτικώτερον Α
19 ἐνείργασται
Ο2, ἐνειργάσαθαι Α; ἐνεργάσεσθαι coni. Mang. τοῦ ante Σιλανοῦ add. σιλανοῦ H1, σιλβανοῦ H2
22 εἰς ante τὰ add. CGOM πρῶτα τῆς ante τιμῆς add. MAH (v), om. CGO εὐδοξίας] τῆς εὐγενείας Α τῆς om. M οὐκέτ᾿ A

2. 7.
8 Anton. Mel. I
14 Col 812 Φίλωγος: δεσμὸς οἴκων — μετάγουσαι.
23 sq. cf. de virt. (de human.) § 172.

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