# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 268

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/268

κελεύει γὰρ δάμαλιν πυρρὰν ἄζυγον ἄμωμον ἀχθεῖσαν σφαγιασθῆναι μὲν ἔξω πόλεως, τὸν δ’ ἀρχιερέα λαμβάνοντα ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος ἑπτάκις ἐπιρραίνειν ἀντικρὺ τοῦ νεὼ πάντα, εἶθ’ ὅλην κατακαίειν σὺν δορᾷ καὶ κρέασι καὶ αἵματι καὶ πλήρει τῇ κοιλίᾳ περιττωμάτων· ἤδη δ’ ὑπομαραινομένης τῆς φλογὸς εἰς τὸ μεσαίτατον τρία ταῦτα ἐμβάλλειν, ξύλον κέδρινον καὶ ὕσσωπον καὶ κόκκινον, κελεύει, εἶτ’ ἐὰν ἀποσβεσθῇ, τὴν τέφραν συλλέγειν καθαρὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἀποτιθέναι πάλιν ἔξω πόλεως ἐν χωρίῳ καθαρῷ.

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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/.