# De Abrahamo 10

Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, Section 10. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-abrahamo/10

καθάπερ γὰρ ποιητὴς Ὅμηρος, μυρίων ποιητῶν ὄντων, κατ’ ἐξοχὴν λέγεται, καὶ τὸ μέλαν ᾧ γράφομεν, καίτοι παντὸς ὃ μὴ λευκόν ἐστι μέλανος ὄντος, καὶ ἄρχων Ἀθήνῃσιν ὁ ἐπώνυμος καὶ τῶν ἐννέα ἀρχόντων ἄριστος, ἀφ’ οὗ οἱ χρόνοι καταριθμοῦνται, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τὸν ἐλπίδι χρώμενον „ἄνθρωπον“ κατ’ ἐξοχὴν ὠνόμασε τὰ πλήθη τῶν ἄλλων ἀφησυχάσας ὡς οὐκ ἀξίων τῆς αὐτῆς προσρήσεως ἐπιλαχεῖν.

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Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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