# De vita contemplativa 43

Philo Judaeus, De vita contemplativa, Section 43. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-vita-contemplativa/43

εἰ δὲ μηδεὶς οἷα βραβευτὴς παρελθὼν μέσος διαλύσειε, μετὰ πλείονος ἐξουσίας καταπαλαίουσι, φονῶντες ἐν ταὐτῷ καὶ θανατῶντες· πάσχουσι γὰρ οὐκ ἐλάττονα ὧν διατιθέασιν, ὅπερ οὐκ ἴσασι, παραπαίοντες οἱ τὸν οἶνον οὐχ, ὡς ὁ κωμικός φησιν, ἐπὶ κακῷ τῶν πλησίον αὐτὸ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ἰδίῳ πίνειν ὑπομένοντες.

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Philo Judaeus, De vita contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, Siegfried Reiter. 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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