Diotimos Library · Greek Antiquity Collection · Bilingual Edition
Swipe or use the arrow keys.
English Page · Branch 850 of 879
Book I Chapter 59 · I.59.2–I.59.3.1
Ancient Greek
p. 16962
Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Συμποσίου.
Ἤτοι τῆς διανοίας ⟨ὄψις ἄρχεται⟩ ὀξὺ βλέπειν, ὅταν ἡ τῶν ὀμμάτων τῆς ἀκμῆς λήγειν ἐπιχειρῇ.
3.1
Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας γʹ.
Φαίνεταί μοι δόξα ἐξιέναι ἐκ διανοίας ἢ ἑκουσίως ἢ ἀκουσίως, ἑκουσίως μὲν ἡ ψευδὴς τοῦ μεταμανθάνοντος, ἀκουσίως δὲ πᾶσα ἡ ἀληθής.
Τὸ μὲν τῆς ἑκουσίου, ἔφη, μανθάνω, τὸ δὲ τῆς ἀκουσίου [οὐ] δέομαι μαθεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 59
p. 16972 · The mind’s sight
Plato, from the Symposium.
“Indeed, the mind’s ⟨sight begins⟩ to see keenly when the sight of the eyes begins to lose its prime.”2063
3.1 · Losing a belief willingly or unwillingly
Plato, Republic, Book III.
“It seems to me that a belief leaves the mind either willingly or unwillingly: a false belief willingly, when someone learns better, but every true belief unwillingly.”
“I understand the willing case,” he said, “but I do [not] need to learn about the unwilling one.”2064
Socrates
Reading Stobaeus, Volume I · Book I Chapter 59 · I.59.2–I.59.3.1
Ask about a concept, passage, contradiction, or connection.
Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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.
About Diotimos Editions
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.
Rights
Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 printing are in the public domain. The independent English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions. The complete supplied edition is available as PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown. The PDF retains the fixed page locations used by the companion lexicon.