# De confusione linguarum 26

Philo Judaeus, De confusione linguarum, Section 26. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-confusione-linguarum/26

οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ἐπὶ τῆς ἁλμυρᾶς φάραγγος ὁμαιχμίαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους θέμενοι. κοῖλον γὰρ καὶ τραχὺ καὶ φαραγγῶδες τὸ κακιῶν καὶ παθῶν χωρίον, ἁλμυρὸν τῷ ὄντι καὶ πικρὰς φέρον ὠδῖνας, ὧν ὁ σοφὸς Ἀβραὰμ τὸ ἐνώμοτον καὶ ἔνσπονδον οὔθ’ ὅρκων οὔτε σπονδῶν ἐπάξιον εἰδὼς καθαιρεῖ· λέγεται γὰρ ὅτι „πάντες οὗτοι συνεφώνησαν ἐπὶ τὴν φάραγγα τὴν ἁλυκήν· αὕτη ἡ θάλασσα τῶν ἁλῶν„ (Gen. 14, 3).

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Philo Judaeus, De confusione linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland. 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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