Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.33–I.8.36

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33 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

I.8.33

Χρόνος μαλάσσει πάντα κἀξεργάζεται.

34 Φιλήμονος

I.8.34

Ὅσαι τέχναι γεγόνασι, ταύτας, ὦ Λάχης, πάσας ἐδίδαξεν ὁ χρόνος, οὐχ ὁ διδάσκαλος.

35 †Ἀναγενέους

I.8.35

Ὁ πολὺς χρόνος πάντ’ ἐξελέγχει, Νικοφῶν.

36 Ἑρμίππου

I.8.36

Ἐκεῖνός ἐστιν στρογγύλος τὴν ὄψιν, ὦ πονηρέ, ἐντὸς δ’ ἔχων περιέρχεται κύκλῳ τὰ πάντ’ ἐν αὑτῷ· ἡμᾶς δὲ τίκτει περιτρέχων τὴν γῆν ἁπαξάπασαν. Ὀνομάζεται δ’ ἐνιαυτός, ὢν δὲ περιφερὴς τελευτὴν οὐδεμίαν οὐδ’ ἀρχὴν ⟨ἔχει⟩· κυκλῶν δ’ ἀεὶ τὸ σῶμα οὐ παύεται δι’ ἡμέρας ὁσημέραι τροχάζων.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8

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33 The same author

I.8.33

Time softens everything and works it to completion.

34 Philemon

I.8.34

All the arts that have arisen, Laches, were taught by time, not by the teacher.

35 †Anagenes

I.8.35

Long time tests everything and brings it to light, Nicophon.²⁶⁷

36 Hermippus

I.8.36

He is round in appearance, you rascal, and goes around in a circle, holding everything within himself. He gives birth to us as he runs around the whole earth. He is called the year; being circular, he ⟨has⟩ no end and no beginning. Forever wheeling his body, he never stops running through the day, day after day.²⁶⁸

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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