Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.7–I.10.10

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7 Ἡρακλείτου

I.10.7

Ἐκ πυρὸς γὰρ τὰ πάντα καὶ εἰς πῦρ πάντα τελευτᾷ.

8 Ὀρφεύς

I.10.8

Ὠκεανὸς πρῶτος καλλίρροος ἦρξε γάμοιο, ὅς ῥα κασιγνήτην ὁμομήτορα Τηθὺν ὄπυιεν.

9 Ἡσίοδος Θεογονίᾳ

I.10.9

Γαῖα δέ τοι πρῶτον μὲν ἐγείνατο ἶσον ἑαυτῇ οὐρανὸν ἀστερόενθ’, ἵνα μιν περὶ πάντα καλύπτοι, ὄφρ’ εἴη μακάρεσσι θεοῖς ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεί.

10 Φιλήμονος

I.10.10

⟨Ὃν⟩ οὐδὲ εἷς λέληθεν οὐδὲ ἓν ποιῶν, οὐδ’ αὖ ποιήσων, οὐδὲ πεποιηκὼς πάλαι, οὔτε θεὸς οὔτ’ ἄνθρωπος, οὗτός εἰμ’ ἐγὼ Ἀήρ, ὃν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειε καὶ Δία. Ἐγὼ δ’, ὃ θεοῦ ’στιν ἔργον, εἰμὶ πανταχοῦ, ἐνταῦθ’ ἐν Ἀθήναις, ἐν Πάτραις, ἐν Σικελίᾳ, ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι πάσαισιν, ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις πάσαις, ἐν ὑμῖν πᾶσιν· οὐκ ἔστιν τόπος οὗ μὴ ’στιν ἀήρ· ὁ δὲ παρὼν ἁπανταχοῦ πάντ’ ἐξ ἀνάγκης οἶδε [πανταχοῦ παρών].

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7 Heraclitus

I.10.7

For all things come from fire, and all things end in fire.³²⁹

8 Orpheus

I.10.8

Fair-flowing Oceanus was the first to institute marriage: he married Tethys, his sister born of the same mother.

9 Hesiod, Theogony (126-128)

I.10.9

Earth first bore starry Heaven, equal to herself, so that he might cover her on every side, and be an ever-secure seat for the blessed gods.

10 Philemon

I.10.10

No one has escaped me in a single deed, nor in what he will do, nor in what he did long ago, neither god nor man. I am that watcher, Air, whom one might also call Zeus. I do what belongs to a god: I am everywhere, here in Athens, in Patrae, in Sicily, in every city, in every house, in every one of you. There is no place where air is absent; whoever is present everywhere must necessarily know everything [being present everywhere].³³⁰

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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