# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 235

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/235

Ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τούτοις ὅμοια νομοθετήσας ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀκουσίοις καὶ περὶ τῶν ἑκουσίων ἑξῆς διατάττεται. ἐάν τις, φησί, ψεύσηται περὶ κοινωνίας ἢ περὶ παρακαταθήκης ἢ ἁρπαγῆς ἢ εὑρέσεως ὧν ἀπώλεσεν ἕτερος καὶ ὑπονοηθείς, ὅρκου προταθέντος, ὀμόσῃ καὶ δόξας ἐκπεφευγέναι τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν κατηγόρων ἔλεγχον αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ γένηται κατήγορος, ἔνδον ὑπὸ τοῦ συνειδότος ἐλεγχθείς, καὶ κακίσῃ μὲν ἑαυτὸν ὧν ἠρνήσατο καὶ ἐπιώρκησεν, ὁμολογῶν δ’ ἄντικρυς τὸ πραχθὲν ἀδίκημα συγγνώμην αἰτῆται, κελεύει τῷ τοιούτῳ παρέχειν ἀμνηστίαν,

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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/.