Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 77

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[77] ταύτην τὴν ὑπόληψιν ἐνσφραγισάμενος τῇ διανοίᾳ περιέφερεν ὁ ἠλίθιος ἐν ἑαυτῷ μυθικὸν πλάσμα ὡς ἀψευδεστάτην ἀλήθειαν. καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἅπαξ ἐθρασύνατο καὶ ἀπετόλμησεν εἰς τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐξενεγκεῖν τὴν ἀθεωτάτην
ἐκθέωσιν αὑτοῦ, τὰ ἀκόλουθα καὶ συνῳδὰ πράττειν ἐπεχείρει καὶ οἷα δι’ ἀναβαθμῶν ἐκ τοῦ κατ’ ὀλίγον εἰς τὸ ἄνω προῄει.

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.) — 77 focus

[77] Accordingly, having impressed this idea on his mind, like a vain and foolish man as he was, he bore about in himself a fallacious fable and invention as if it had been a most undeniable truth; and after he had once carried his boldness and audacity to such a pitch as to compel the multitude to admit of his most impious deification, he attempted to do other things consistent with and conformable to it, and in this way he advanced up to the highest point by slow degrees as if he were ascending up steps.

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