# De fuga et inventione 27

Philo Judaeus, De fuga et inventione, Section 27. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-fuga-et-inventione/27

ἢ οὐκ οἶδας, ὅτι ναῦν ἰδιώτης μὲν παραλαβὼν σῴζεσθαι δυναμένην ἀνατρέπει, κυβερνητικὸς δὲ ἀνὴρ καὶ τὴν ἀπολλυμένην πολλάκις ἔσωσε, καὶ τῶν καμνόντων οἱ μὲν ἀπειρίᾳ τῶν θεραπευόντων χρησάμενοι σφαλερῶς τὰ σώματα ἔσχον, οἱ δὲ ἐμπειρίᾳ καὶ τὰς σφαλερὰς νόσους ἀπέφυγον; καὶ τί δεῖ μηκύνειν; ἀεὶ γὰρ τὰ μετὰ τέχνης ἔλεγχός ἐστι τῶν σὺν ἀτεχνίᾳ γινομένων, καὶ ὁ τούτων ἀληθὴς ἔπαινος ἀψευδὴς ἐκείνων ἐστὶ κατηγορία.

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Philo Judaeus, De fuga et inventione, 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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