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Book I Chapter 6 · I.6.18.2–I.6.19.1
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p. 21018 Ἀριστοξένου· συνέχεια
Εἶναι δὲ καὶ ἕτερον τύχης εἶδος, καθ’ ὃ οἱ μὲν εὐφυεῖς καὶ εὔστοχοι, οἱ δὲ ἀφυεῖς τε καὶ ἐναντίαν ἔχοντες φύσιν βλάστοιεν, ὧν οἱ μὲν εὐθυβολοῖεν ἐφ’ ὅ τι ἂν ἐπιβάλωνται, οἱ δὲ ἀποπίπτοιεν τοῦ σκοποῦ, μηδέποτε τῆς διανοίας αὐτῶν εὐστόχως φερομένης, ἀλλὰ ἀεὶ ταρασσομένης· ταύτην δὲ τὴν ἀτυχίαν σύμφυτον εἶναι καὶ οὐκ ἐπείσακτον.
19 Εὐρύσω περὶ τύχας
Δοκεῖ δέ μοι τύχα καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ τᾶς τύχας γινόμενον πᾶν οὐχ ὡς ὑπό τινος αἰτίας ἀφωρισμένας καὶ ὡς ὑποκειμένας γίνεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ὡς ἐπισυμβαῖνον καὶ ἐπισυνιστάμενον ἁτέραις τισὶν αἰτίαις. Ἁ τύχα ὦν καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ τύχας γινόμενον οὔθ’ ὡς φύσις ἐντὶ ὑπὸ φύσιός τε γινόμενον, οὔθ’ ὡς τέχνα καὶ φρόνασίς τις ἀνθρωπίνα καὶ θεία, ἀλλὰ ἐπισυμβαῖνον παραλόγως τε καὶ ἀπροαισθήτως τούτοις.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 6
p. 21118 Aristoxenus, continued
There is also another kind of fortune, according to which some people grow up naturally gifted and good at hitting the mark, while others lack aptitude and have the opposite nature. The former hit their target in whatever they undertake; the latter miss the mark, their thinking never moving accurately toward its aim but always falling into confusion. This misfortune is innate, not introduced from outside.233
19 Eurysus, On Fortune
It seems to me that fortune, and everything that happens by fortune, comes about not through some definite, underlying cause, but as something incidentally occurring and arising alongside certain other causes. Fortune, then, and what happens by fortune are neither nature and what nature produces, nor skill and a kind of human or divine intelligence. They are something that occurs incidentally alongside these, contrary to calculation and without being foreseen.234
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