Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.32.17–I.49.32.18

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32.17

I.49.32.17

Τινὲς μὲν τῶν Ἀριστοτελικῶν αἰθέριον σῶμα τὴν ψυχὴν τίθενται· ἕτεροι δὲ τελειότητα αὐτὴν ἀφορίζονται κατ᾽ οὐσίαν τοῦ θείου σώματος, ἣν ἐντελέχειαν καλεῖ Ἀριστοτέλης, ὥσπερ δὴ ἐν ἐνίοις Θεόφραστος, ἢ τὸ ἀπογεννώμενον ἀπὸ τῶν θειοτέρων γενῶν ὅλων, ὥσπερ ἄν τις νεωτερίσειεν ἐν ταῖς ἐπινοίαις· ἢ τὸ συγκεκραμένον τοῖς σώμασιν, ὥσπερ οἱ Στωικοὶ λέγουσιν·

32.18

I.49.32.18

ἢ τὸ τῇ φύσει συμμεμιγμένον ἢ τὸ τοῦ σώματος ὂν ὥσπερ τὸ ἐψυχῶσθαι, αὐτῇ δὴ μὴ παρὸν τῇ ψυχῇ ὥσπερ ὑπάρχειν, οἷα δὴ λέγεται περὶ ψυχῆς παρὰ Δικαιάρχῳ τῷ Μεσσηνίῳ.

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32.17 · Aether, actuality, and mixture

I.49.32.17

Some Aristotelians posit soul as an aetherial body. Others define it as the perfection in substance of the divine body, which Aristotle calls actuality, as Theophrastus does in some passages; or as what is generated from all the more divine kinds, as someone might propose by introducing a new conception; or as what is blended with bodies, as the Stoics say;¹⁴³⁰

32.18 · Soul as a bodily condition

I.49.32.18

or what is mixed with nature; or what belongs to body, such as its being ensouled, without being present in soul itself as though subsisting there: such are the statements about soul found in Dicaearchus of Messene.¹⁴³¹

1430.Entelecheia is rendered “actuality,” alongside the text’s explanatory teleiotēs, “perfection.” The printed “divine body” is retained. The author expressly allows a new, hypothetical conception in the next alternative; the apparatus explains en tais epinoiais accordingly, rather than treating it as a book title. These reports and possibilities remain distinct.

1431.The closing construction is damaged or obscure. The English provisionally takes “being ensouled” as a condition belonging to body rather than something subsisting in soul itself. The apparatus questions the second hōsper and proposes hopōsoun, “in any way,” while recording more extensive repairs to the preceding wording. None is inserted into the Greek; the precise force of the clause remains uncertain.

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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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