# De vita contemplativa 73

Philo Judaeus, De vita contemplativa, Section 73. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-vita-contemplativa/73

εἰς τοῦτο τὸ συμπόσιον — οἶδ’ ὅτι γελάσονταί τινες ἀκούσαντες, γελάσονται δὲ οἱ κλαυθμῶν καὶ θρήνων ἄξια δρῶντες — οἶνος ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις οὐκ εἰσκομίζεται, ἀλλὰ διαυγέστατον ὕδωρ, ψυχρὸν μὲν τοῖς πολλοῖς, θερμὸν δὲ τῶν πρεσβυτάτων τοῖς ἁβροδιαίτοις· καὶ τράπεζα καθαρὰ τῶν ἐναίμων, ἐφ’ ἧς ἄρτοι μὲν τροφή, προσόψημα δὲ ἅλες, οἷς ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ ὕσσωπος ἥδυσμα παραρτύεται διὰ τοὺς τρυφῶντας.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg028.local001/.