# De decalogo 149

Philo Judaeus, De decalogo, Section 149. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-decalogo/149

ἔτι γὰρ ἀμαυρὸς ὡς ἔοικε προσπίπτει — οὐδὲν τῶν εἰς γνῶσιν τηλαυγέστερον ἐπιδίδωσιν, ὡς ἔτι μᾶλλον τὸν ἀνήνυτον καὶ ἀδιεξίτητον ἐπιτείνεσθαι τοῦ καταλαβεῖν ἵμερον, Ταντάλειον τιμωρίαν ἐπιφερούσης τῆς ἐπιθυμίας· ἐκεῖνός τε γὰρ ὧν ὀρεχθείη πάντων ὁπότε μέλλοι ψαύσειν, ἀπετύγχανεν, ὅ τε κρατηθεὶς ἐπιθυμίᾳ, διψῶν ἀεὶ τῶν ἀπόντων, οὐδέποτε πληροῦται περὶ κενὴν ἰλυσπώμενος τὴν ὄρεξιν.

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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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