Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 47 · I.47.1.9–I.47.3

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1.9

I.47.1.9

Καὶ δὴ καὶ τέλος περὶ τοῦ παντὸς νῦν ἤδη τὸν λόγον φῶμεν ἔχειν· θνητὰ γὰρ καὶ ἀθάνατα ζῷα λαβὼν καὶ συμπληρωθεὶς ὅδε ὁ κόσμος, οὕτω ζῷον ὁρατὸν τὰ ὁρατὰ περιέχον, εἰκὼν τοῦ ποιητοῦ θεὸς αἰσθητός, μέγιστος καὶ ἄριστος κάλλιστός τε καὶ τελεώτατος γέγονεν, εἷς οὐρανὸς ὅδε, μονογενὴς ὤν.

2 · Πλάτωνος

I.47.2

Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου.

Πρῶτον μὲν οὖν αἴσθησιν ἀναγκαῖον εἴη πᾶσιν ἐκ βιαίων παθημάτων σύμφυτον γίγνεσθαι· δεύτερον δὲ ἡδονῇ καὶ λύπῃ μεμιγμένον ἔρωτα· πρὸς δὲ τούτοις φόβον τε καὶ θυμόν, ὅσα τε ἑπόμενα αὐτοῖς καὶ ὁπόσα ἐναντίως πέφυκε διεστηκότα.

3 · Πλάτωνος

I.47.3

Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Κρατύλου.

Ὀρθῶς ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἄνθρωπος ὠνομάσθη, ἀναθρῶν ἃ ὄπωπε.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 47

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1.9 · The visible cosmos

I.47.1.9

Let us now say that the account of the universe has reached its end. For this cosmos, having received mortal and immortal living creatures and been filled with them, has thus become a visible living creature encompassing visible things, an image of its maker, a perceptible god, greatest and best, most beautiful and most complete: this one heaven, unique in its kind.¹¹⁷⁴

2 · Plato: perception and the passions

I.47.2

From Plato, from the Timaeus.

First, then, perception would necessarily arise in all as an innate accompaniment of violent affections; second, love mingled with pleasure and pain; and in addition to these, fear and anger, everything that follows them, and everything naturally opposed to them.¹¹⁷⁵

3 · Plato: the name “human being”

I.47.3

From Plato, from the Cratylus.

The human being was rightly named anthrōpos, because he examines what he has seen.¹¹⁷⁶

1174.The translation follows Wachsmuth’s printed poiētou, “maker,” and the nominative theos, “god.” His apparatus also records noētou, “intelligible,” and the genitive theou, “of a god,” familiar from a different reading of this sentence. Those alternatives are not silently substituted. Monogenēs emphasizes the cosmos’s uniqueness.

1175.Timaeus 42a. Pathēmata are things undergone or affections, here the forcible disturbances accompanying embodiment. “Innate accompaniment” conveys symphyton, something that grows together with a being; the passage then enumerates its emotional endowments.

1176.Cratylus 399c. The proposed explanation plays on anthrōpos and anathrōn ha opōpe, “examining what he has seen.” It is a philosophical wordplay within the dialogue, not an established historical derivation of the Greek noun.

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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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