Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek with an independent English translation.

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Book I Chapter 6 · I.6.7–I.6.10

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p. 196

7 Χαιρήμονος ἐξ Ἀχιλλέως Θερσιτοκτόνου

I.6.7

Τύχη τὰ θνητῶν πράγματ’, οὐκ εὐβουλία.

8 Φιλήμονος

I.6.8

Ἄλλος κατ’ ἄλλην δαιμονίζεται τύχην.

9 Μενάνδρου Κνιδίᾳ

I.6.9

Ταὐτόματόν ἐστιν ὡς ἔοικέ που θεός, σῴζει τε πολλὰ τῶν ἀοράτων πραγμάτων.

10 Μενάνδρου Ὑποβολιμαίῳ

I.6.10

Οὐ παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ τὴν πρόνοιαν αἰτίαν κρίνων ἂν ὀρθῶς ὑπολαβεῖν τίς μοι δοκεῖ, ἀλλ’ ἔστι καὶ ταὐτόματον ἔνθα χρήσιμον.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 6

p. 197

7 Chaeremon, from Achilles the Slayer of Thersites

I.6.7

Mortal affairs are fortune’s doing, not sound deliberation.

8 Philemon

I.6.8

Each person is driven by a different fortune.²¹⁶

9 Menander, The Woman of Cnidus

I.6.9

What happens of itself is, it seems, a god, and brings many unforeseen affairs safely through.²¹⁷

10 Menander, The Supposititious Child

I.6.10

I think one would be right to judge that foresight is not the cause of every good: there are occasions when what happens of itself is useful.²¹⁸

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.

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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.