Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 97

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[97] πολλάκις δὲ καὶ θώρακα ἐνδυόμενος ξιφήρης προῄει μετὰ κράνους καὶ ἀσπίδος, Ἄρης ἀνακαλούμενος· καὶ
παρ’ ἑκάτερα οἱ Ἄρεως τοῦ καινοῦ [καὶ νέου] θεραπευταὶ συμπροῄεσαν, ἀνδροφόνων καὶ δημοκοίνων θίασος, ὑπηρετήσοντες κακὰς ὑπηρεσίας φονῶντι καὶ διψῶντι ἀνθρωπείου αἵματος.

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.) — 97 focus

[97] Very often, also, he would clothe himself with a breastplate, and march forth sword in hand, with a helmet on his head and a shield on his left arm, calling himself Mars, and on each side of him there marched with him the attendants of this new and unknown Mars, a troop of murderers and executioners who had already performed him all kinds of wicked services when he was raging and thirsting for human blood;

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