# De aeternitate mundi 146

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 146. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/146

εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ λεκτέον τὰς τέχνας ἰσήλικας ἀνθρώπων γένει, μεθ’ ἱστορίας φυσικῆς ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀπερισκέπτως καὶ ῥᾳθύμως λεκτέον. ἡ δ’ ἱστορία τίς; φθοραὶ τῶν κατὰ γῆν, οὐκ ἀθρόων ἁπάντων ἀλλὰ τῶν πλείστων, δυσὶ ταῖς μεγίσταις αἰτίαις ἀνατίθενται, πυρὸς καὶ ὕδατος ἀλέκτοις φοραῖς· κατασκήπτειν δ’ ἑκατέραν ἐν μέρει φασὶν ἐν πάνυ μακραῖς ἐνιαυτῶν περιόδοις.

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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/.