Philo, Volume X: On the Embassy to Gaius. General Indexes

559 Pages·1962·13.86 MB·English

by  Philo Judaeus

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PHILO
X
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PHILO
THE EMBASSY TO GAIUS
TRANSLATION BY
F. H. COLSON
INDICES TO VOLUMES I-X
J. W. EARP
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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
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