# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 139-140

Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), 139 to 140. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-specialibus-legibus-lib-i-iv/139

τῆς δὲ τῶν πρωτοτόκων | υἱῶν καθιερώσεως, ὑπὲρ τοῦ μήτε γονεῖς τέκνων μήτε τέκνα γονέων διαζεύγνυσθαι, τιμᾶται τὴν ἀπαρχὴν ἀργυρίῳ ῥητῷ, προστάξας ἴσον εἰσφέρειν καὶ πένητα καὶ πλούσιον, οὐ πρὸς ἀξίωμα τῶν εἰσφερόντων οὐδὲ πρὸς εὐεξίαν καὶ κάλλος τῶν γεννηθέντων ἀπιδών, ἀλλ’ ὅσον δυνατὸν εἰσενεγκεῖν καὶ τῷ λίαν ἀπόρῳ σταθμησάμενος. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἡ παίδων γένεσις ἐν ἴσῳ καὶ τοῖς λαμπροτάτοις καὶ τοῖς ἀφανεστάτοις εἴωθε συμβαίνειν, ἴσην ἐδικαίωσε καὶ τὴν εἰσφορὰν νομοθετῆσαι

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg024.local001/.