# De aeternitate mundi 42

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 42. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/42

εἰ δ’ ὅμοιος, ματαιοπόνος ὁ τεχνίτης, οὐδὲν κομιδῇ νηπίων παίδων διαφέρων, οἳ πολλάκις παρ’ αἰγιαλοῖς ἀθύροντες ψάμμου γεωλόφους ἀνιστᾶσι κἄπειθ’ ὑφαιροῦντες ταῖς χερσὶ πάλιν ἐρείπουσι· πολὺ γὰρ ἄμεινον τοῦ κατασκευάζειν ὅμοιον μηδὲν μήτε ἀφαιροῦντα μήτε προστιθέντα μηδ’ αὖ πρὸς τὸ ἄμεινον ἢ χεῖρον μεταβάλλοντα τὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἅπαξ γενόμενον κατὰ χώραν ἐᾶν.

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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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