# De aeternitate mundi 36

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 36. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/36

ἐξασθενεῖ δὲ ἡ ἐπὶ μέρους ἀναγκαίως ἄγειν πρὸς ἀιδιότητα· ἢ γὰρ ἔνδεια ἢ φλογμὸς ἢ κρυμὸς ἢ μυρία ἄλλα τῶν εἰωθότων ἐπισυνίστασθαι κατασκήψαντα διέσεισε καὶ διέλυσε τὸν συνέχοντα δεσμὸν καὶ τέλος κατέρρηξε· τοιοῦτον δ’ εἰ μηδὲν ἐφήδρευεν ἔξω, κἂν ὅσον ἐφ’ ἑαυτῇ πάντα μικρά τε αὖ καὶ μεγάλα ἀγήρω διεφύλαττεν.

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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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