# De aeternitate mundi 67

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 67. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/67

πρὸς δὲ δὴ τούτοις, ὥσπερ γαλακτοτροφεῖσθαι χρὴ τὸ ἀρτίγονον, οὕτως καὶ τῇ δι’ ἀμπεχόνης σκέπῃ χρῆσθαι διὰ τὰς ἀπὸ κρυμοῦ καὶ θάλπους ἐγγινομένας τοῖς σώμασι ζημίας, οὗ χάριν μαῖαι καὶ μητέρες, αἷς ἀναγκαία φροντὶς εἰσέρχεται τῶν γεννωμένων, κατασπαργανοῦσι τὰ βρέφη. τοὺς δὲ γηγενεῖς φύντας πῶς οὐκ ἄν τις εὐθὺς διέφθειρε γυμνοὺς ἐαθέντας ἢ ἀέρος κατάψυξις ἢ ἀφ’ ἡλίου φλογμός; κρυμοὶ γὰρ καὶ θάλπη κρατήσαντα νόσους καὶ φθορὰς ἀπεργάζονται.

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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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