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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB EDITED BY G. P. GOOLD PREVIOUS EDITORS Τ. E. PAGE E. CAPPS W. H. D. ROUSE L. A. POST Ε. H. WARMINGTON PHILO X LCL 379 PHILO THE EMBASSY TO GAIUS TRANSLATION BY F. H. COLSON INDICES TO VOLUMES I-X J. W. EARP HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND Copyright © 1962 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Reprinted 1971, 1991 ISBN 0-674-99417-5 Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on acid-free paper. Bound by Hunter 6· Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh, Scothnd. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE EMBASSY TO GAIUS ix INTRODUCTION TO THE INDICES xxxiii LIST OF PHILO's WORKS xxxvii ON THE EMBASSY TO GAIUS (THE FIRST PART OF THE TREATISE ON VIRTUES) 1 INDICES TO VOLUMES I-X 189 PREFACE TO VOLUME X MR. COLSON lived long enough to correct his last proofs, but not to complete his notes and index. What he left is here given. This translation is really his work, although other names are associated with the early part; but I have gone through the whole in MS. with him, so I know that the work is Colson's monument, and I believe it will last. A translator more careful and more competent I never worked with. W. H. D. ROUSE November 1943 For compilation of the indices we are indebted to the Rev. J. W. Earp. Ε. H. W. vii INTRODUCTION TO THE Ό Ε LEGATION Ε THE treatise generally known by this somewhat mis­ leading name is a very lively and powerful invective against the Emperor Gains. One part of it, in which he gives an account of the ineffectual design of Gains to introduce his statue into the temple of Jerusalem, supplementing and in many places differing from Josephuss account of the same incident, is of con­ siderable value in the history of Judaism. Otherwise it adds little or nothing to our knowledge of the reign of Gaius or to the accounts given in the regular historians of his follies and vices. It does not repel by its vindictiveness to the same extent as the Flaccus, though perhaps if we possessed the " Palinode " which is promised at the end, this opinion would have to be modified. It has some difficult problems pe­ culiar to itself which are discussed later in this intro­ duction. Meanwhile I give the following analysis of its contents. It opens with a few introductory remarks, on which see p. xx (1-7), and then proceeds to describe the splendid prospects with which Gaius's reign opened and the world-wide delight and hope which his acces­ sion aroused (8-13), then the deep disappointment and sorrow which his serious illness caused, followed ix

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The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he
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