Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 81

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[81] καίτοι τί παρασήμων ἔδει σοι, Γάιε, οἷς ἔθος ἀσκεῖσθαι τὰ τῶν εἰρημένων ἀφιδρύματα; ἐχρῆν γὰρ ζηλοῦν τὰς ἐκείνων ἀρετάς. Ἡρακλῆς ἐκάθηρε γῆν καὶ θάλατταν ¹ ἄθλους ἀναγκαιοτάτους καὶ ὠφελιμωτάτους ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποις ὑποστὰς ἕνεκα τοῦ τὰ βλαβερὰ καὶ κακωτικὰ φύσεως ἑκατέρας ἀνελεῖν.

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.) — 81 focus

[81] And yet why, O Caius! did you think yourself in need of spurious honours, such as the temples and statues of the beings above-mentioned are often filled with? You ought rather to have imitated their virtues. Hercules purified both the earth and the sea, performing labours of the greatest possible importance and of the highest benefit to all mankind, in order to eradicate all that was mischievous and calculated to injure the nature of each of the elements.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

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1 ὅροις (νόμοις ss.) M ὑπερέκυκτεν L
2 τῶ ante τοιούτῳ add. Α
3 γὰρ CGO: om. ceteri (v) ἄλλων ζῴων] ζώων τῶν ἄλλων H 3.
4 αἰπόλοι καὶ νομεῖς CGO: ν. καὶ αἰπόλοι ceteri
4 alt. οὔτε] οὔτ’ Α οὔτε αἶγες om. L αἶγες οὔτε ἄρνες CGO: ἄρνες οὔτε (οὔτ᾿ A) αἶγες ceteri
5 παρασκευῆς Α
7 κατὰ MH
9 αὑτῶ Α
10 ἀθεοτάτην G
11 αὑτοῦ L: αὐτοῦ ceteri
12 ἐκ τοῦ om. M προσῄει GO, σ eras. C προσῄει Turn. in textu, προῄει in append.)
14 διοσκόροις M τροφόνιον G
17 ἀλλοίαν] ἄλλην vel ἀλλοτρίαν coni. Mang. ἀνελάμβανε Mang. (cf. § 96. 100. 101): ἐνελάμβανε Α, ἐλάμβανε ceteri (v)
18 διακοσμούμενος] διασκούμενος coni. Mang. ποτὲ (Turn.) πύλους M
19 δ’ AL κ(??)ιττῶ eras.) C νευρίσιν AH
20 ἤσκητο
22 ἀθρόων scripsi: ἀθρόον codd.
23 γυριόνην OL; Γηρυόνα (τὸν om.) Mang. παραγαγὼν εἴη H
24 παραδοξώτατον H
26 ὅμηρος corr. ex ὁμάκρος M ἐνδεχόμενος C, εἰσδεχόμενον Α (ἐκδεχόμενον Mang.)
28 ἀσκεῖσθαι (vel ἐνσκευάζεσθαι coni.) Mang. (Dahl): ἀρκεῖσθαι codd. (v)

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