# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 341

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/341

ἀψευδέστατοι δ’ οἱ πεπηρωμένοι μάρτυρες, οἳ μήτε χερσὶ μήτε ποσὶ δύνανται χρῆσθαι κατὰ τὸ βέλτιον τὴν πρόσρησιν ἐπαληθεύοντες, ἣν οὐκ ἐπ’ ὀνείδει μᾶλλον ἢ οἴκτῳ θέσθαι φασὶ τοὺς πρότερον ἀδυνάτους ὀνομάσαντας· ἅμα γὰρ τῇ τῶν ὀμμάτων φθορᾷ καὶ αἱ τοῦ σώματος δυνάμεις οὐχ ὑποσκελίζονται μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ φθείρονται. θαυμασιώτατον δὲ καὶ ἀκοὴ χρῆμα, δι’ ἧς μέλη καὶ μέτρα καὶ ῥυθμοί,

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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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