Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 22 · I.22.3d.1–I.22.3d.3

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3d Πλάτωνος · 1

I.22.3d.1

Πλάτων ἕνα τὸν κόσμον ἀπεφήνατο· λέγει γὰρ ἐν τῷ Τιμαίῳ οὕτως· Πότερον οὖν ὀρθῶς ἕνα οὐρανὸν προσειρήκαμεν, ἢ πολλοὺς καὶ ἀπείρους λέγειν ἦν ὀρθότερον; Ἕνα· εἴπερ κατὰ τὸ παράδειγμα δεδημιουργημένος ἔσται. Τὸ γὰρ περιέχον πάντα ὁπόσα νοητὰ ζῷα μεθ᾽ ἑτέρου δεύτερον οὐκ ἄν ποτε εἴη.

3d Πλάτωνος · 2

I.22.3d.2

Πάλιν γὰρ ⟨ἂν⟩ ἕτερον εἶναι τὸ περὶ ἐκείνω δέοι ζῷον, οὗ μέρος ἂν εἰήτην ἐκείνω· καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἔτι ἐκείνοιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκείνῳ τῷ περιέχοντι τόδ᾽ ἂν ἀφωμοιωμένον λέγοιτο ὀρθότερον.

3d Πλάτωνος · 3

I.22.3d.3

Ἵνα οὖν τόδε κατὰ τὴν μόνωσιν ὅμοιον ᾖ τῷ παντελεῖ ζῴῳ, διὰ ταῦτα οὔτε δύο οὔτε ἀπείρους ἐποίησεν ὁ ποιῶν κόσμους, ἀλλ᾽ εἷς ὅδε μονογενὴς οὐρανὸς γεγονὼς ἐστί τε καὶ ἔτ᾽ ἔσται.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 22

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3d Plato: One heaven and its model

I.22.3d.1

Plato declared that there is one world, for he says in the Timaeus: Have we then rightly spoken of one heaven, or would it have been more correct to speak of many, indeed infinitely many? One, if it is to have been fashioned according to its model. For that which contains all intelligible living beings could never be a second alongside another.⁶⁹³

3d Plato: What would contain two models?

I.22.3d.2

For there ⟨would⟩ then have to be another living being enclosing those two, of which both would be parts; and this world would more correctly be said to have been made like that enclosing being, rather than like those two.⁶⁹⁴

3d Plato: A single, uniquely generated heaven

I.22.3d.3

So that this world might resemble the all-complete living being in its singleness, the maker therefore made neither two worlds nor infinitely many; instead, this one uniquely generated heaven has come into being, exists, and will continue to exist.⁶⁹⁵

693.Timaeus 31a-b. The introductory attribution belongs to the compiler. The “model” is the intelligible living being that includes all intelligible living beings; the argument concerns its uniqueness and the visible world’s likeness to it. Here paradeigma has its usual sense “model,” unlike its use for a copy in excerpt 1f.

694.The dual forms refer to the supposed pair of intelligible models. If a further living being contained both, that more inclusive being would be the appropriate model for the world. The supplied an marks the hypothetical statement; the repaired dual verb is also noted in Wachsmuth’s apparatus.

695.Monogenēs emphasizes that this generated heaven is unique, with no second of its kind. The Greek says that it has come into being as well as that it will continue to exist; neither part is suppressed. “All-complete” follows Wachsmuth’s correction from Plato in place of the manuscripts’ “incomplete.” This is the end of chapter 22.

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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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