Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.5–I.10.6

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5 Λίνου ἐκ τῶν Περὶ φύσεως κόσμου

I.10.5

Ὡς κατ’ ἔριν συνάπαντα κυβερνᾶται διὰ παντός· ἐκ παντὸς δὲ τὰ πάντα καὶ ἐκ πάντων τόπαν ἐστί. Πάντα δ’ ἕν ἐστιν, ἕκαστον ὅλου μέρος, ἐν δ’ ἑνὶ πάντα, ἐκ γὰρ ἑνός ποτ’ ἐόντος ὅλου τάδε πάντ’ ἐγένοντο· ἐκ πάντων δέ ποτ’ αὖθις ἓν ἔσσεται ἐν χρόνου αἴσῃ, αἰὲν ἓν ὂν καὶ πολλά· καὶ οὐ κατὰ ταὐτὸν ἀθρῆσαι πολλάκις [δ’] ἔσται ταῦτα· καὶ οὔποτε πεῖρας ἔπεισιν αἰεὶ πείρατ’ ἔχων· πήιον γένος ἔλλαχε ταὐτόν. ὧδε γὰρ ἀθάνατος θάνατος περὶ πάντα καλύπτει θνητὸς ἰὼν καὶ πᾶν θνῄσκει φθαρτόν, τὸ δ’ ὑπάρχον φαντασίαις τ’ ἀλλοιοτρόποις καὶ σχήμασι μορφῆς ἀλλάξει τρόπον, ⟨ὡς⟩ ἀποκρύπτεμεν ὄψιν ἁπάντων, ἄφθορον ἔσσετ’ ἐόν τ’ αἰεί, καθὸ τῇδε τέτυκται.

6 ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩

I.10.6

Ὅμηρος δὲ σημαίνει τὴν ἀνάλυσιν εἰς τὰ γεννητικὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ παντὸς λέγων·

Ἀλλ’ ὑμεῖς μὲν πάντες ὕδωρ καὶ γαῖα γένοισθε.

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5 Linus, On the Nature of the World

I.10.5

Thus all things are ever governed through strife; all things come from the whole, and the whole from all things. All things are one, each a part of the whole, and all within one: from what was once one whole all these things came to be, and from all things one will again arise in time’s allotted course, always one and many, though not to be seen in the same state. [And] these things will happen many times; no end will ever come, though it always has limits; a [pēion: unresolved] kind has obtained the same.³²⁶ For thus immortal death envelops everything, passing as mortal; all that is perishable dies, but what exists will change its manner through varied appearances and shapes, ⟨so as⟩ to conceal everything’s aspect; it will remain imperishable and ever-existent, as it is constituted here.³²⁷

6 ⟨Plutarch⟩

I.10.6

Homer indicates dissolution into the generative elements of the universe when he says:

But may you all turn into water and earth!³²⁸

326.The middle lines are damaged. The clause beginning pēion cannot be securely construed: genos means “kind” or “race,” ellache “obtained by lot,” and tauton “the same.” The bracketed warning is supplied by this translation, and the surrounding English is provisional. The preceding masculine echōn, “having,” also lacks a clear subject. Wachsmuth’s apparatus records competing repairs.

327.The poem contrasts the death of perishable forms with an underlying existence that persists through change. “Immortal death” and “passing as mortal” preserve the printed paradox; the final lines also depend on editorial repairs. The source’s square brackets mark the rejected connective de, rendered “[And].”

328.Iliad 7.99. The commentator reads the line as physical doctrine. Wachsmuth supplies Plutarch’s name but identifies the source in his apparatus as a work transmitted under Plutarch’s name rather than securely his.

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.

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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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