Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.27.7–I.49.27.8

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27.7

I.49.27.7

Καὶ μὰν ὁμόνοιά τις καὶ ὁμοφροσύνα ὀπαδέει τᾷ τοιαύτᾳ διατάξι. Τὸ δὲ τοιοῦτον δικαίως κα λέγοιτο εὐνομία ἦμεν τᾶς ψυχᾶς, ἅτις ἐκ τῶ ἄρχεν μὲν τὸ κάρρον, ἄρχεσθαι δὲ τὸ χέρειον κράτος ἐπιφέροιτο τᾶς ἀρετᾶς. Καὶ φιλία δὲ καὶ ἔρως καὶ φιλοφροσύνα σύμφυλος καὶ συγγενὴς ἐκ τούτων ἐξεβλάστασε τῶν μερέων. Συμπείθει μὲν γὰρ ὁ νόος ὀραυγούμενος, ἔραται δὲ ἁ ἐπιθυμία, ἁ δὲ θύμωσις ἐμπιπλαμένα μένεος, ἔχθρᾳ ζέοισα φίλα γίνεται τᾷ ἐπιθυμίᾳ.

27.8

I.49.27.8

Ἁρμόξας γὰρ ὁ νόος τὸ ἁδὺ τῷ λυπηρῷ συγκατακρεόμενος καὶ τὸ σύντονον καὶ σφοδρὸν τῷ κούφῳ μέρει τᾶς ψυχᾶς καὶ διαχυτικῷ· ἕκαστόν τε ἑκάστω πράγματος τὰν σύμφυλον καὶ συγγενέα προμάθειαν διαμεμέρισται,

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27.7 · Concord, friendship, and goodwill

I.49.27.7

A certain concord and agreement of mind follow such an arrangement. This might rightly be called good order in the soul, bringing the mastery of virtue through the superior ruling and the inferior being ruled. Friendship, love, and a goodwill that is native and akin to them have also sprung from these parts. For intellect persuades through its investigation, desire loves, and the spirited power, filled with vigor and boiling with hostility, becomes friendly to desire.¹³⁹⁰

27.8 · Blending pleasure and effort

I.49.27.8

For intellect has harmonized them by blending the pleasant with the painful, and what is strenuous and intense with the light and expansive part of soul. Each has also been allotted, for its respective task, the foresight native and akin to it;¹³⁹¹

1390.Eunomia is good order under law; the image of civic order continues within the soul. The final clause preserves the striking coexistence of “boiling with hostility” and “friendly to desire.” It describes the spirited power’s force becoming allied with desire within the proposed arrangement; no unprinted negation is introduced to remove the tension.

1391.The syntax is unsettled: “having harmonized” and “blending” lead into a change of construction with “has been allotted.” The English gives the first clause a finite verb and understands “each” as each part. Promatheia is foresight or forethought, distinguished from the subsequent investigation and the force needed to carry it into action. The apparatus offers repairs to the blending clause; the printed wording remains in Greek.

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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