Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.35.1–I.49.35.2

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35.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ

I.49.35.1

Ἐν ταὐτῷ· περὶ τῶν κατ᾽ οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τῶν προστιθεμένων αὐτῇ δυνάμεων.

Πλωτῖνος αὐτῆς ἀφαιρεῖ τὰς ἀλόγους δυνάμεις, τὰς αἰσθήσεις, τὰς φαντασίας, τὰς μνήμας, τοὺς λογισμούς· μόνον δὲ τὸν καθαρὸν λογισμὸν εἰς τὴν καθαρὰν οὐσίαν αὐτῆς ἀνατείνει, ὡς ἔχοντα συμφυῆ δύναμιν πρὸς αὐτὴν τὴν τῆς οὐσίας ἰδέαν.

35.2

I.49.35.2

Οἱ δὲ περὶ Δημόκριτον Πλατωνικοὶ πάντα ταῦτα τὰ εἴδη τῶν δυνάμεων εἰς τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτῆς συνάγουσιν.

Ὁ δὲ Πλάτων καὶ αὐτὰς ἑαυτῶν ποιεῖ καὶ τῶν ζῴων, καθ᾽ ἑκατέραν ζωὴν διοριζόμενος ἑκάτερον.

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35.1 · Essential and added powers

I.49.35.1

In the same work: on powers belonging to soul’s substance and powers added to it.

Plotinus removes from it the irrational powers, the perceptions, the representations, the memories, and the processes of reasoning. Only pure reasoning does he refer to its pure substance, as possessing a power naturally bound to the very form of that substance.¹⁴⁴³

35.2 · Powers and two kinds of life

I.49.35.2

The Platonists around Democritus bring all these kinds of powers together within its substance.¹⁴⁴⁴

Plato makes them belong both to themselves and to living beings, defining each relation according to the corresponding kind of life.¹⁴⁴⁵

1443.“The same work” continues the work attributed, under the restored heading at I.49.32, to Iamblichus as On the Soul. This is the author’s report of Plotinus, not a continuous quotation from him. Wachsmuth cites Enneads IV.3.18. The contrast between ordinary logismoi and pure logismos is retained; phantasiai are representations or appearances. The finite printed anateinei remains, despite the apparatus’s suggested infinitive.

1444.The surprising designation “Platonists around Democritus” is the printed reading. The apparatus records Heeren’s exclusion of “Platonists” and Meineke’s replacement with “atomists,” while Wachsmuth retains it and refers to Syrianus. The translation does not silently adopt either alteration.

1445.The wording kai autas heautōn is difficult; the apparatus asks whether the order should be autas kai heautōn. The English provisionally retains “themselves” rather than replacing it outright with “souls.” The contextual contrast is between life belonging to soul itself and life shared with the living composite, developed explicitly in the next excerpt. “Relation” is an English clarification, not an additional Greek word.

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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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