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Stobaeus, Volume I: How to read this edition
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Greek and English
The two languages are paired by passage identifier. Greek is on the left and English on the right where the format permits. On narrow screens the pair may stack, with Greek first. PDF page references preserve the locations used in the companion lexicon.
Passage numbers
I.3.1 means Book I, chapter 3, excerpt 1. Arith.3 identifies excerpt 3 of On Arithmetic. Letters follow subdivisions in the source; further suffixes divide long excerpts for comparison. The combined I.3.26–27 follows Wachsmuth. Testimony.1 labels Photius’s report; I.2.reconstruction labels proposed material for the lost chapter.
Source pages
Source references identify the original printed pages in Wachsmuth. In the supplied scan, printed page 3 is PDF page 43, page 15 is PDF page 55, and page 23 is PDF page 63. References labeled PDF edition instead identify pages in this bilingual edition.
Editorial signs
Angle brackets <like these> mark supplements in the base edition. Square brackets usually retain rejected wording; English-only notices of gaps or unresolved words are labeled and explained in notes. A dagger (†) flags corruption. Ellipses normally follow source gaps; notes identify any used only to show broken sense in English.
Notes and uncertainties
Footnote numbers run continuously through the edition. Where the source is damaged or unusually compressed, a note distinguishes the printed reading from the interpretation used in English. The notes are part of the translation, not a replacement for the facing Greek.
Socrates
Reading Stobaeus, Volume I · How to read this edition · How to read this edition
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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.
Rights
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.