# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 72-2-73

Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), 72 to 73. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-specialibus-legibus-lib-i-iv/72-2

καλὸν μὲν οὖν τὴν ἀπὸ δανειστῶν χάριν ἐπὶ πάντας φθάνειν χρεώστας· ἐπεὶ δ’ οὐ πάντες πρὸς μεγαλοφροσύνην πεφύκασιν, ἀλλ’ εἰσὶν ἥττους ἔνιοι χρημάτων ἢ οὐ σφόδρα εὔποροι, καὶ τούτους ἐδικαίωσεν εἰσφέρειν ἃ μὴ λυπήσει διδόμενα. παρὰ γὰρ τῶν ὁμοεθνῶν εἰσπράττειν οὐκ ἐάσας ἐφῆκε παρὰ τῶν ἄλλων κομίζεσθαι, τοὺς μὲν καλέσας εὐθυβόλως „ἀδελφούς“, ἵνα μηδεὶς φθονῇ τῶν ἰδίων ὡς ἂν ἐκ φύσεως συγκληρονόμοις ἀδελφοῖς, τοὺς δὲ μὴ ὁμοεθνεῖς, ὅπερ εἰκός, „ἀλλοτρίους“ ὠνόμασεν.

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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/.