Philo

Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.

which Philo calls a middle kind of wisdom.

Nor is it the name alone which continues, but that principle also which Conon calls the constitutional system of the body, and Philo the spirit, that holds it together.

Philo interprets Hagar as "sojourning" (for here it is said:

And Philo too himself recorded the kings of the Jews, at variance with Demetrius.

And the rest of the cyclic education the Greeks taught in Egypt, as for a royal child, as Philo says in his Life of Moses;

'You did not pass over even that reproach of Antiochus, Lucullus (nor was it strange, for it is among the most famous), by which Antiochus used to say that Philo was most of all confounded.

'Then your master Philo gave his attention to Clitomachus for many years.

Wherefore all our discourse against the Academy is undertaken in order that we may retain that definition which Philo wished to overthrow;

for both of you," he added with a smile, "learned from the same Philo to know nothing.

and it was precisely when I seemed least engaged in it that I was most a philosopher — as is shown both by my speeches, which are full of the maxims of philosophers, and by my intimacy with the most learned men, in whom my house has always abounded, and by my having been trained by those eminent teachers, Diodotus, Philo, Antiochus, and Posidonius.

Zeno, whom our Philo used to call the coryphaeus of the Epicureans, I often heard when I was at Athens, and indeed at Philo's own bidding — I believe so that I might judge more easily how well those doctrines could be refuted, having learned from the chief of the Epicureans how they were stated.

whereas Philo would add both his own and chosen poems, and that in their place.

In our own memory Philo, whom I often heard, made it his rule to deliver at one time the precepts of the rhetoricians, at another those of the philosophers;

In which the most noble philosophers spent their lives — Xenocrates, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Lacydes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Zeno, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Antipater, Carneades, Clitomachus, Philo, Antiochus, Panaetius, Posidonius, and innumerable others, who, once having gone out, never returned home.

And yet you were certainly not without means, for you had inherited more than five talents from the estate of your father-in-law Philo, and you had a present of two talents, subscribed by the chairmen of the Navy Boards, as a reward for spoiling the Navy Reform Bill.

Callias of Phrearrii proposed that the Council and People resolve to crown Nausicles, the commander of the infantry, because, when Philo, the official paymaster, was prevented by storms from sailing with pay for the two thousand Athenian infantry serving in Imbros to assist the Athenian residents in that island, he paid them from his private means, and did not send in a claim to the people;

Philo, interpreting the manna, said — as though taught from some Jewish tradition — that its quality was such that it was blended according to the imagination of the eater;

And yet Antiochus's master Philo—a great man, as you yourself reckon him—denied in his books, as we also used to hear from his own lips in person, that there were two Academies, and refuted the error of those who thought so.

At last Philo, one of the ambassadors, made a speech that deserved to have been spoken by your representatives, men of Athens, instead of by the spokesman of Thebes.