# De aeternitate mundi 148

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 148. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/148

πρὸς δὲ μαχομένων δυνάμεων ἐν μέρει τοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἐναντίοις οἰκοῦντας τόποις ἀπόλλυσθαι, πυρὶ μὲν τοὺς ἐν ὄρεσι καὶ γεωλόφοις καὶ δυσύδροις χωρίοις, ἅτ’ οὐκ ἔχοντας φύσει πυρὸς ἀμυντήριον ἄφθονον ὕδωρ, ἔμπαλιν δ’ ὕδατι τοὺς παρὰ ποταμοῖς ἢ λίμναις ἢ θαλάττῃ· γειτόνων γὰρ ἅπτεσθαι φιλεῖ τὰ κακὰ πρώτων ἢ καὶ μόνων.

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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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