# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) Περὶ ἱερέων.

Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), Περὶ περιτομῆς.. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-specialibus-legibus-lib-i-iv/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%E1%BD%B6%20%E1%BC%B1%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%89%CE%BD.

Φυλαὶ μέν εἰσι τοῦ ἔθνους δώδεκα, μία δ’ ἐκ πασῶν ἀριστίνδην ἐπικριθεῖσα ἱερᾶται, γέρας ἀνδραγαθίας καὶ φιλοθέου σπουδῆς τουτὶ λαβοῦσα, καθ’ ὃν καιρὸν ἔδοξεν ἡ πληθὺς ἁμαρτεῖν ἐπακολουθήσασα γνώμαις ἐνίων ἀγνώμοσιν, οἳ τὴν Αἰγυπτιακὴν ἔπεισαν ζηλοῦν ἠλιθιότητα καὶ τὸν ἐγχώριον τῦφον, ὃν ἐπ’ ἀλόγοις ζῴοις καὶ μάλιστα ταύροις μυθοπλαστοῦσι· τοὺς γὰρ ἡγεμόνας τῆς ἀπονοίας ἅπαντας ἡβηδὸν αὐτοκέλευστοι κατακτείναντες εὐαγὲς ἔδοξαν ἔργον εἰργάσθαι, τοὺς ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας ἀγῶνας διαθλήσαντες.

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Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), ed. Leopold Cohn, 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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