# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 193

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/193

ἅπερ συνιδὼν οὐκ ἐφῆκε κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἑορτάζειν, ἀλλ’ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ τῆς εὐφροσύνης καιρῷ πρῶτον μὲν ἐκέλευσεν ἁγνεύειν ἐπιστομίζοντας τὰς ἐφ’ ἡδονὴν ὁρμάς, εἶτα εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἐπὶ μετουσίαν ὕμνων καὶ εὐχῶν καὶ θυσιῶν ἐκάλεσεν, ἵνα κἀκ τοῦ τόπου κἀκ τῶν ὁρωμένων καὶ λεγομένων διὰ τῶν κυριωτάτων αἰσθήσεων, ὄψεως καὶ ἀκοῆς, ἐγκρατείας ἅμα καὶ εὐσεβείας ἐρασθῶσιν, εἶτ’ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ὑπέμνησε τοῦ μὴ ἁμαρτάνειν διὰ τῆς θυσίας τοῦ περὶ ἁμαρτίας· ὁ γὰρ ἀμνηστίαν ἐφ’ οἷς ἥμαρτεν αἰτούμενος οὐχ οὕτως ἐστὶ κακοδαίμων, ὥστ’ ἐν ᾧ χρόνῳ παλαιῶν ἀδικημάτων αἰτεῖται λύσιν ἕτερα καινοτομεῖν.

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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/.