Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 83

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[83] καὶ ἰδίᾳ τε ἕκαστον ἀνθρώπων βελτίονα ποιεῖ καὶ πολυανθρώπους οἰκίας καὶ συγγενείας ἐξ αὐχμηροῦ καὶ ἐπιπόνου βίου μεθαρμόζεται πρὸς ἀνειμένης σχῆμα καὶ ἱλαρᾶς διαίτης καὶ πάσαις πόλεσιν p. 558 M. Ἑλληνικαῖς τε καὶ βαρβαρικαῖς εὐωχίας, εὐφροσύνας,
θαλίας, ἑορτὰς ἐπαλλήλους παρέχει· πάντων γὰρ τῶν λεχθέντων αἴτιος ἄκρατος. πάλιν Διοσκούρους λόγος ἔχει κοινώσασθαι τὴν ἀθανασίαν.

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.) — 83 focus

[83] And individually it renders each man better, and alters populous families and households, leading them from a squalid and laborious life of vexation to a course of relaxation and cheerful happiness, and causing to every city on earth, both Grecian and barbarian, incessant festivity, and mirth, and ¹ entertainment, and revelry; for of all these things is good wine the cause.

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