# De aeternitate mundi 132

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 132. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/132

Ἀναγκαῖον δὲ πρὸς τὴν τοσαύτην εὑρεσιλογίαν ἀπαντῆσαι, μή τις τῶν ἀπειροτέρων ἐνδοὺς ὑπαχθῇ· καὶ ἀρκτέον γε τῆς ἀντιρρήσεως ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ τῆς ἀπάτης οἱ σοφισταί. τὰς ἀνωμαλίας οὐκέτ’ ἐχρῆν εἶναι τῆς γῆς, εἴπερ ἀίδιος ἦν ὁ κόσμος; διὰ τί, ὦ γενναῖοι; φήσουσι γὰρ ἕτεροι παρελθόντες, ὅτι δένδρων οὐδὲν αἱ φύσεις τῶν ὀρῶν διαφέρουσιν, ἀλλὰ καθάπερ ἐκεῖνα καιροῖς μέν τισι φυλλορροεῖ καιροῖς δὲ πάλιν ἀνηβᾷ — διὸ καὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν εὖ εἴρηται „φύλλα τὰ μέν τ’ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ’ ὕλη τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ’ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη“ —, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τῶν ὀρῶν τὰ μὲν ἀποθραύεται μέρη, τὰ δὲ προσφύεται.

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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.
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