Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 99

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[99] ἆρα οὐχ ὅτι προσήκει τὸν ἑρμηνέα καὶ προφήτην τῶν θείων, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ
Ἑρμῆς ὠνόμασται, τὰ ἀγαθὰ διαγγέλλοντα — κακοῦ γὰρ οὐχ ὅτι θεὸς ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ σοφὸς ἀνὴρ γίνεται μηνυτής — ποδωκέστατόν τε εἶναι καὶ μόνον οὐ πτηνὸν φέρεσθαι διὰ σπουδὴν ἀνυπέρθετον; ἐπειδὴ τὰ λυσιτελῆ ¹ φθάνοντας εὐαγγελίζεσθαι προσήκει, καθάπερ τὰ παλίμφημα μέλλοντας, εἰ μὴ ἐπιτρέποι τις αὐτὰ ἡσυχάζεσθαι.

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.) — 99 focus

[99] Mercury, for instance, requires wings attached to his ankles. Why so? Is it not because it behoves him to be the interpreter and declarer of the will of the gods (from which employment, in fact, he derives his Greek name of Hermes ¹), announcing good news to mankind (for not only no god but no sensible man ever will become the messenger of evil), and therefore it is necessary for him to be exceedingly swift-footed, and all but winged, from the unhesitating rapidity with which he requires to proceed. Since it is right that beneficial news should be announced with great promptness, just as bad news ought to be brought slowly, unless indeed any one should prefer saying that such ought to be entirely suppressed in silence.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 τοῖς] τῆς Η
2 ἕρμονος M ἀπόλωνος G ἄρεως CO: ἄρεος ceteri κηρυκίοις CGO
4 λογισμῶν GO φρενοβλαβίᾳ GO ἐπιδεικνύμενος Α εἶθ’ Α
5 δόξει H ἀπόλλωνος M
7 alt. δὲ om. M
8 συντείνων Α
9 τὰ ante δεξιά add. M (Mang.) δεξιᾶ CGH (Turn.) 10.
11 εἱστήκεισαν AH
12 εὐήνιον M
13 L
15 ἑκατέρου A ἄρεος MGH κανοῦ] κοινοῦ καὶ νέου seclusit Dahl; καινοὶ coni. Mang., καὶ ἐννεοῦ Matthaei θεοῦ ante θεραπευταὶ add. Α
16 δέ ante καὶ add. A θιάσους Α ὑπηρετίσοντες M, ὑπηρετήσαντες A (Richt. Tauchn.)
17 διψόντι ταῦθ’ A ὁρῶσιν C
18 τὰ ἐναντία CGO (v) 20.
21 τοῖς — προσα καθίδρυται in marg. M
20 ἐνσκευάζεται eoni. Mang. περίοπτα C, περίοπτά G
21 προσκοσμήματα M 23.
24 διὰ τί ἄρα AL
24 ἑρμηνέα] ἑρμέα (sic) Α θείων] θεῶν M (Mang.)
25 προσωνόμασται M (Mang.) διαγγέλοντα M 25.
26 (διαγγέλλον)τα — ποδωκέστατόν om. L
20 ποδωκύτατόν
27 πτὴν (sic) C

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