# De aeternitate mundi 149

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 149. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/149

κατὰ δὴ τοὺς λεχθέντας τρόπους δίχα μυρίων ἄλλων βραχυτέρων φθειρομένου τοῦ πλείστου μέρους ἀνθρώπων, ἐπιλείπειν ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ τὰς τέχνας· δίχα γὰρ τοῦ μεθοδεύοντος οὐκ εἶναι καθ’ αὑτὴν ἰδεῖν ἐπιστήμην. ἐπειδὰν δὲ αἱ μὲν κοιναὶ νόσοι χαλάσωσιν, ἄρξηται δὲ ἀνηβᾶν καὶ βλαστάνειν τὸ γένος ἐκ τῶν μὴ προκαταληφθέντων τοῖς ἐπιβρίσασι δεινοῖς, ἄρχεσθαι καὶ τὰς τέχνας πάλιν συνίστασθαι, οὐ τότε πρῶτον γενομένας, ἀλλὰ τῇ μειώσει τῶν ἐχόντων ὑποσπανισθείσας.

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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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