# De aeternitate mundi 23

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/23

σημεῖον δέ· βοῦς καὶ ἵππος καὶ ἄνθρωπος καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια ζῷα, διότι πέφυκεν ἀναιρεῖσθαι ὑπὸ σιδήρου, καὶ νόσῳ τελευτήσει· χαλεπὸν γὰρ μᾶλλον δὲ ἀδύνατον εὑρεῖν, ὅ τι τὴν ἔξωθεν αἰτίαν πεφυκὸς ὑπομένειν τῆς φθορᾶς ἄδεκτον ἔσται κατὰ τὸ παντελὲς τῆς ἔνδοθεν.

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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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