# De aeternitate mundi 119

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 119. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/119

νυνὶ δὲ συνεχεῖς ἀνωμαλίαι καὶ παμπόλλων ὁρῶν αἱ πρὸς αἰθέριον ὕψος ὑπερβολαὶ μηνύματ’ ἐστὶ τοῦ τὴν γῆν μὴ ἀίδιον εἶναι. πάλαι γάρ, ὡς ἔφην, ἐν ἀπείρῳ χρόνῳ ταῖς ἐπομβρίαις ἀπὸ περάτων ἐπὶ πέρατα πᾶς’ ἂν λεωφόρος ἐγεγένητο· πέφυκε γὰρ ἡ ὕδατος φύσις καὶ μάλιστα ἀπὸ ὑψηλοτάτων καταράττουσα τὰ μὲν ἐξωθεῖν τῇ βίᾳ, τὰ δὲ τῷ συνεχεῖ τῶν ψεκάδων κολάπτουσα κοιλαίνειν ὑπεργάζεσθαί τε τὴν σκληρόγεω καὶ λιθωδεστάτην ὀρυκτήρων οὐκ ἔλαττον.

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Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg029.local001/.