# De decalogo 10

Philo Judaeus, De decalogo, Section 10. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-decalogo/10

εἰς ἃ πρῶτον ἀπιδὼν ἔξω πόλεων ἐβουλήθη νομοθετεῖν. ἐνενόει δὲ κἀκεῖνο δεύτερον, ὅτι τοῦ μέλλοντος ἱεροὺς νόμους παραδέχεσθαι τὴν ψυχὴν ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν ἀπορρύψασθαι καὶ ἐκκαθήρασθαι τὰς δυσεκπλύτους κηλῖδας, ἃς μιγάδων καὶ συγκλύδων ὄχλος ἀνθρώπων κατὰ πόλεις προσετρίψατο.

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Philo Judaeus, De decalogo, ed. 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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