Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.25.1–I.49.25.2

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25.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ

I.49.25.1

Ἐν ταὐτῷ.

Νουμήνιος δὲ τὴν συγκαταθετικὴν δύναμιν παραδεκτικὴν ἐνεργειῶν φήσας εἶναι, σύμπτωμα αὐτῆς φησιν εἶναι τὸ φανταστικόν, οὐ μὴν ἔργον γε καὶ ἀποτέλεσμα, ἀλλὰ παρακολούθημα· τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς τὴν αἴσθησιν οὐκ ἐν τῇ φαντασίᾳ ἱστάντων μόνον, ἀλλὰ τὴν οὐσίαν ἀναρτώντων ἀπὸ τῆς συγκαταθέσεως. Αἰσθητικὴ γὰρ φαντασία συγκατάθεσίς ἐστιν ἡ αἴσθησις τῆς συγκαταθέσεως καθ᾽ ὁρμὴν οὔσης.

25.2

I.49.25.2

Λογγῖνος δὲ μηδ᾽ εἶναι ὅλως συγκαταθετικὴν δύναμιν ὑπονοεῖ. Κατὰ μέντοι τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους καὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀκαδημίας ἡ αἴσθησις ἐπὶ τῆς ⟨δι᾽⟩ αἰσθητηρίου φαντασίας ψιλὴ τίθεται καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐδὲ κατ᾽ ἀρχὰς μέτοχος ἰδιώματος, ὅτι μηδὲ συγκαταθέσεως μέτοχος.

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25.1 · Numenius: assent and presentation

I.49.25.1

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Numenius, having said that the power of assent is receptive of activities, says that the imaginative power is incidental to it: not its work and product, but an accompaniment. The Stoics do not make perception consist in presentation alone, but make its very being depend on assent. For perception is a sensory presentation, an assent, with assent occurring in accordance with impulse.¹³⁶⁶

25.2 · Longinus and the earlier accounts

I.49.25.2

Longinus suspects that there is no power of assent at all. According to the earlier thinkers and those of the Academy, however, perception is taken as bare presentation ⟨through⟩ a sense organ. For that reason it does not, at the outset, share in a distinctive character, since it does not share in assent either.¹³⁶⁷

1366.Synkatathesis, “assent,” is distinguished from phantasia, the presentation that appears to the soul, and hormē, “impulse.” The contrast between a product and an accompaniment is explicit in Numenius’s account. The final sentence is compressed: aisthētikē phantasia and synkatathesis are both nominative. The English juxtaposes “a sensory presentation, an assent” rather than silently changing the first into a dative, “assent to a sensory presentation.”

1367.Psilē, “bare,” excludes assent from this account of perception. The supplied preposition “through” remains marked. Idiōma is translated conservatively as “a distinctive character”: the sentence does not specify which character is intended. The apparatus records difficult alternative wording around “at the outset,” but the translation follows the edited text. Longinus’s doubt is reported as his position.

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Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.

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