Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.27.9–I.49.27.10

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27.9

I.49.27.9

ὁ μὲν νόος ὀραυγούμενος καὶ στιβαζόμενος τὰ πράγματα, ἁ δὲ θύμωσις ὁρμὰν καὶ ἀλκὰν ποτιφερομένα τοῖς ὀραυγαθεῖσιν· ἁ δὲ ἐπιθυμία φιλοστοργίᾳ συγγενὴς ἐᾶσα ἐφαρμόσδει τῷ νόῳ ἴδιον περιποιουμένα τὸ ἁδὺ καὶ τὸ σύννοον ἀποδιδοῖσα τῷ συννόῳ μέρει τᾶς ψυχᾶς.

27.10

I.49.27.10

Ὧνπερ ἕκατι δοκεῖ μοι καὶ ὁ βίος ὁ κατ᾽ ἀνθρώπως ἄριστος ἦμεν, ὅκκα τὸ ἁδὺ τῷ σπουδαίῳ συγκατακραθῇ καὶ ⟨ἁ⟩ ἁδονὰ τᾷ ἀρετᾷ. Ποθαρμόξασθαι δ᾽ αὐτὰ ὁ νόος δύναται, παιδεύσιος καὶ ἀρετᾶς ἐπήρατος γενόμενος.

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27.9 · The contribution of each power

I.49.27.9

intellect investigates and tracks the matters at hand, while the spirited power brings impulse and strength to what has been investigated. Desire, being akin to affectionate attachment, fits in with intellect, securing pleasure as its own and assigning thoughtfulness to the thoughtful part of soul.¹³⁹²

27.10 · Pleasure joined to virtue

I.49.27.10

For these reasons, it seems to me that human life is best when the pleasant is blended with the serious, and ⟨the⟩ pleasure with virtue. Intellect can fit them together when it has become beloved of education and virtue.¹³⁹³

1392.The repeated language of tracking recalls the opening search within human nature. Philostorgia is affectionate attachment. The printed synnoon and synnoōi are difficult; “thoughtfulness” and “thoughtful” preserve their verbal relationship in a provisional rendering. The apparatus questions the former reading. Desire’s own province remains pleasure, distinguished from the activity assigned to intellect.

1393.Spoudaion is the serious or morally worthy. The conclusion seeks a fitting union of pleasure and virtue, not pleasure alone. The supplied article remains marked. The last word, epēratos, ordinarily means lovely or beloved, but the apparatus judges it corrupt here and suggests alternatives implying experience or attainment. “Beloved of education and virtue” deliberately preserves the difficult printed wording as provisional.

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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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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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