Philo, Volume V: On Flight and Finding. On the Change of Names. On Dreams

637 Pages·1934·10.58 MB·English

by  Philo Judaeus

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PHILO
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PHILO
IN TEN VOLUMES
(AND TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES)
V
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
F. H. COLSON, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
AND
THE REV. G. H. WHITAKER, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
MCMLXXXVIII
American
ISBN 0-674-99303-9
British
ISBN 0 434 99275 5
First printed 1934
Reprinted 1949, 1958, 1968, 1988
Printed in Great Britain by
Thomson Litho Ltd, East Kilbride, Scotland
CONTENTS OF VOLUME V
ΡΑΘΕ
PREFACE vii
LIST OF PHILO'S WORKS ix
ON FLIGHT AND FINDING (DE FUGA ET INVEN-
TIONE)—
Introduction . 3
Text and Translation 10
ON THE CHANGE OF NAMES (DE MUTATIONE
NOMINUM)—
Introduction . 128
Text and Translation 142
ON DREAMS, THAT THEY ARE GOD-SENT (QUOD
A DEO MITTANTUR SOMNIA or DE SOMNIIS)—
BOOK I. Introduction 285
Text and Translation . . .. 294
BOOK II. Introduction 433
Text and Translation . . .. 442
APPENDICES—
I. To De Fuga et Inventione . . . . 581
II. To De Mutatione Nominum . . .. 586
III. To De Somniis, i 593
IV. To De Somniis, ii. 606
SUPPLEMENT TO TEXTUAL FOOTNOTES IN
VOLS. L-V 613
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PREFACE TO VOLUME V
IN this volume we reach the end of the third of
Cohn and Wendland's six volumes, and with it the
end also of what is perhaps the most important part
of Philo's work, in which, to repeat the words used
by us in the General Introduction, he expounds
what he considers to be the inner and spiritual
meaning of various incidents and texts in Genesis.0
Mr. Whitaker remains a substantial contributor
to this volume, even more so than in Vol. IV.
At his death in 1930 he left in MS. the whole of
De Fuga and De Somniis, i., and about a fifth of
De Somniis, ii. They had not been revised, but
though I have made considerable alterations and
corrections, especially in De Somniis, i., and though the
introductions entirely, and the notes almost entirely,
are my unassisted work, the translation of this part
is fundamentally his. Still, as I said in the Preface
to Vol. IV., both in what I have left unchanged and
in what I have altered or corrected I must take the
final responsibility.
β For some account of the nature of the work which still
remains to be done see General Introduction, Vol. I. p. x.
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PREFACE
I wish to call the attention of such readers as are
interested in the minutiae of the text of this and
the preceding volumes to the supplementary list
printed on pp. 613 ff., where also I have modified
somewhat the remarks I made on this subject in the
Preface to Vol. IV.
F. H. C.
February 1934.
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LIST OF PHILO'S WORKS
SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMES
IN THIS EDITION
VOLUME
I. On the Creation (De Opificio Mundi)
Allegorical Interpretation (Legum AUegoriae)
II. On the Cherubim (De Cherubim)
On the Sacrifices of Abel and Cain (De Sacrificiis
Abelis et Caini)
The Worse attacks the Better (Quod Deterius Potiori
insidiari solet)
On the Posterity and Exile of Cain (De Posteritate
Caini)
III. On the Unchangeableness of God (Quod Deus im-
mutabilis sit)
On Husbandry (De Agricultura)
On Noah's Work as a Planter (De Plantatione)
On Drunkenness (De Ebrietate)
On Sobriety (De Sobrietate)
LV. On the Confusion of Tongues (De Confusione Lin-
guarum)
On the Migration of Abraham (De Migratione
Abrahami)
Who is the Heir (Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres)
On the Preliminary Studies (De Congressu quaerendae
Eruditionis gratia)
V. On Flight and Finding (De Fuga et Inventione)
On the Change of Names (De Mutatione Nominum)
On Dreams (De Somniis)
VI. On Abraham (De Abrahamo)
On Joseph (De Iosepho)
Moses (De Vita Mosis)
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