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Ancient contents - Book II · Contents.II.heading–Contents.II.7-13
Ancient Greek
p. 1728Βιβλίον Βʹ
Τὸ δὲ δεύτερον βιβλίον συμπληροῦται μὲν κεφαλαίοις ϛʹ καὶ μʹ. Διαλαμβάνει δὲ πρῶτον μὲν
1. Περὶ τῶν τὰ θεῖα ἑρμηνευόντων καὶ ὡς εἴη ἀνθρώποις ἀκατάληπτος ἡ τῶν νοητῶν κατὰ τὴν οὐσίαν ἀλήθεια.
2. εἶτα· Περὶ διαλεκτικῆς.
3. καὶ· Περὶ ῥητορικῆς.
4. καὶ· Περὶ λόγου καὶ γραμμάτων.
5. Περὶ ποιητικῆς.
6. Περὶ χαρακτῆρος τῶν παλαιῶν.
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7. Περὶ τοῦ ἠθικοῦ εἴδους τῆς φιλοσοφίας.
8. Περὶ τῶν ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν.
9. Ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν πονηρός.
10. Ὁποῖον χρὴ εἶναι τὸν φιλόσοφον.
11. Ὅτι χρὴ σέβειν τὸ θεῖον.
12. Ὅτι τοῖς εὐσεβέσι καὶ δικαίοις βοηθεῖ τὸ κρεῖττον.
13. Περὶ μαντικῆς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Ancient contents - Book II
p. 1729Ancient contents · Book II
The second book comprises forty-six chapters. It discusses, first:
1. On those who interpret divine things, and how the truth of intelligible things in their substance is beyond human comprehension.
2. Then, on dialectic.
3. And on rhetoric.
4. And on speech and letters.
5. On the art of poetry.
6. On the character of the ancients.2095
7-13 · Ethics, agency, philosophy, and piety
7. On the ethical branch of philosophy.
8. On what is up to us.
9. That no one is willingly bad.
10. What a philosopher ought to be like.
11. That one should revere the divine.
12. That the higher power helps the pious and just.
13. On divination.2096
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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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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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