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On the Meeting for the sake of seeking Instruction

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 176

[176] for he says somewhere, "By thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother." [93] Judging that destiny to be the most advantageous one for a man who had chosen war rather than peace, and who was as it were constantly armed and engaged in battle, by reason of the sedition and disorder constantly existing in his soul, the destiny namely of being a subject and a servant, and of obeying all the commands which the lover of temperance should lay upon him.