# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 338

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/338

διὰ μὲν οὖν γεύσεως αἱ τῶν σιτίων τροφαὶ παραπέμπονται, διὰ δὲ μυκτήρων ὁ ἀήρ, οὗ πᾶν ζῷον ἐξήρτηται· τροφὴ δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ οὗτος ἡ συνεχὴς καὶ ἀδιάστατος, ὃς οὐκ ἐγρηγορότας μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ κοιμωμένους διατρέφει τε καὶ διασῴζει· σαφὴς δὲ πίστις· εἰ γὰρ κἂν βραχύτατον ὁ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς δίαυλος ἐπισχεθείη κατὰ τὴν τοῦ πεφυκότος ἔξωθεν ἐποχετεύεσθαι πνεύματος ἀποκοπήν, θάνατος ἀπαραίτητος ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἐπακολουθήσει.

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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/.