# De fuga et inventione 39

Philo Judaeus, De fuga et inventione, Section 39. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-fuga-et-inventione/39

τὰς δὲ λέξεις ἀκριβωτέον. „ἰδοὺ“ φησίν „Ἠσαῦ ὁ ἀδελφός σου ἀπειλεῖ σοι“ — ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁ δρύινος καὶ ὑπ’ ἀμαθίας ἀπειθὴς τρόπος, ὄνομα Ἠσαῦ, ἐγκότως ἔχει καὶ τὰ τῆς θνητῆς ζωῆς προτείνων ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ δελέατα, χρήματα, δόξαν, ἡδονάς, τὰ συγγενῆ τούτοις, κατὰ σοῦ φονᾷ; — σὺ δέ, ὦ τέκνον, ἀπόδραθι τὸν ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἀγῶνα· οὔπω γὰρ εἰς τὸ παντελὲς ἐπιδέδωκέ σοι τὰ τῆς ῥώμης, ἀλλ’ ἔτι οἷα παιδὸς οἱ ψυχικοὶ τόνοι μαλθακώτεροι.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg017.local001/.