Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 50 · I.50.10–I.50.12

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10

I.50.10

⟨Ἀετίου.⟩

Οἱ Στωικοὶ σωμάτων τὰς αἰσθήσεις.

11

I.50.11

Οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχαίων τῶν περὶ τὰ σώματα ἀσωμάτων λόγων ἅπερ ἤδη σχήματα προσαγορεύουσι.

12

I.50.12

Λεύκιππος, Δημόκριτος, Ἐπίκουρος τὴν αἴσθησιν καὶ τὴν νόησιν γίνεσθαι εἰδώλων ἔξωθεν προσιόντων· μηδενὶ γὰρ ἐπιβάλλειν μηδετέραν χωρὶς τοῦ προσπίπτοντος.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 50

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10 · Perception of bodies

I.50.10

⟨Aëtius.⟩

The Stoics hold that perceptions are of bodies.¹⁹²¹

11 · Incorporeal structures

I.50.11

The followers of the ancients hold that perceptions are of the incorporeal structures associated with bodies, which they call shapes.¹⁹²²

12 · Images arriving from outside

I.50.12

Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus hold that perception and thought arise through images approaching from outside. For neither engages with anything without something impinging upon it.¹⁹²³

1921.The supplied group attribution covers excerpts 10-16: Aëtius IV.8.8-14, Diels p. 395. The genitive sōmatōn identifies the objects of perception as bodies; it does not by itself say that the perceptions are bodies. The following report offers a different account of what is perceived.

1922.Logoi is provisionally structures, a term broad enough to include formal relations or configurations. The verb and perceptions are understood from excerpt 10. The printed reference to the ancients is retained. The neuter relative haper does not agree straightforwardly with masculine logōn, and the compressed construction remains difficult.

1923.Eidōla are images; in this report they arrive from outside and occasion both perception and thought. The final phrase leaves the impinging thing unnamed. Image would fit the context, but it is not added to the Greek. Neither refers to the two activities just named.

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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