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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 3 · I.3.23–I.3.26-27

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23 Εὐριπίδου Ἀνδρομέδας

I.3.23

Τὴν τοι Δίκην λέγουσι παῖδ’ εἶναι Διὸς ἐγγύς τε ναίειν τῆς βροτῶν τιμωρίας.

24 Αἰσχύλου

I.3.24

Δράσαντι γάρ τοι καὶ παθεῖν ὀφείλεται.

25 Εὐριπίδης Ἀντιόπῃ

I.3.25

Δίκα τοι δίκα χρόνιος, ἀλλ’ ὅμως ὑποπεσοῦσ’ ἔλαθεν, ὅταν ἔχῃ τιν’ ἀσεβῆ βροτῶν.

26–27 Αἰσχύλου Βακχῶν

I.3.26-27

Τό τοι κακὸν ποδῶκες ἔρχεται βροτοῖς κατ’ ἀμπλάκημα τῷ περῶντι τὴν θέμιν.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 3

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23 Euripides, Andromeda

I.3.23

They say that Justice is the child of Zeus and dwells close to the punishment of mortals.¹²²

24 Aeschylus

I.3.24

For one who has acted, suffering in return is due.¹²³

25 Euripides, Antiope

I.3.25

Justice, yes Justice, is slow; but nevertheless she steals upon her prey unseen, when she has an impious mortal in her grasp.¹²⁴

26–27 Aeschylus, Bacchae

I.3.26-27

Swift-footed evil comes to mortals for wrongdoing, to the one who crosses the bounds of right.¹²⁵

122.The title Andromeda is the identification adopted by Wachsmuth; manuscript headings point instead to Andromache. Compare excerpt 33, where Justice is called the child of Time.

123.Wachsmuth marks this as a doubtful fragment in his reference to Aeschylus and records a closely similar line attributed elsewhere to Sophocles. The transmitted author-heading is retained.

124.The transmitted construction is compressed and its verbs have attracted conjectures. “Her prey” makes the image readable in English; it is not an additional object named in the Greek. The combination of delay and an unnoticed approach is retained.

125.The combined numbering 26–27 and the title Bacchae follow Wachsmuth’s printed heading. His apparatus reconstructs that title from a damaged manuscript heading; this is not a heading naming Euripides’s surviving Bacchae.

About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

The Greek follows Curt Wachsmuth’s 1884 Volume I, checked against the supplied scan. Gaps, lost-chapter headings, and uncertain attributions remain visible. Chapter 2 includes a labeled proposed reconstruction. The appendix outlines Books I–IV; the full texts of Books II–IV are outside this volume. Reader pages preserve the companion PDF’s numbering.

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Diotimos Editions prepared this independent English translation directly from the Greek. Prose and verse retain their distinct forms, with mixed passages preserving their quoted verse. Every passage is paired with its Greek and identified by the edition’s reference number. All 2,117 notes remain linked to their passages, with continuous numbering across the introduction and text.

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