# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 146

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/146

ἐνοικεῖν γὰρ αὐτὸν λόγος ἔχει τοῖς στήθεσιν, ἐπειδὴ χωρίον οἰκειότατον ἡ φύσις ἀπένειμε τὰ στέρνα θυμῷ πρὸς ἐνδιαίτησιν, ᾧ καθάπερ στρατιώτῃ περιέβαλεν εἰς τὸ δυσάλωτον ἕρκος ὀχυρώτατον, τὸν ἐπικαλούμενον θώρακα, ὃν ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ συνεχῶν καὶ κραταιοτάτων ὀστέων ἀπειργάσατο σφίγξας αὐτὸν εὖ μάλα νεύροις ἀρραγέσιν.

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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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