Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 3 · I.3.37–I.3.40

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37 Σοφοκλῆς Αἴαντι

I.3.37

Τὸ χρύσεον δὲ τᾶς Δίκας δέδορκεν ὄμμα, τὸν δ’ ἄδικον ἀμείβεται.

38 Ἡσιόδου Θεογονίας

I.3.38

Καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους, αἵ τ’ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε παραβασίας ἐφέπουσιν· οὐδέ ποτε λήγουσι θεαὶ δεινοῖο χόλοιο, πρίν γ’ ἀπὸ τῷ δώωσι κακὴν ὄπιν ὅστις ἁμάρτῃ.

39 Εὐριπίδης Πολυείδῳ

I.3.39

Οὐδεὶς παρανομῶν πρὸς θεοὺς ἐχέγγυος.

40 ⟨Εὐριπίδου⟩

I.3.40

Συγγνώμονάς τοι τοὺς θεοὺς εἶναι δοκεῖς, ὅταν τις ὅρκῳ θάνατον ἐκφυγεῖν θέλῃ ἢ δεσμὸν ἢ βίαια πολεμίων κακά, ἢ παισὶν αὐθένταισι κοινωνῇ δόμων; ἤτἄρα θνητῶν εἰσιν ἀσυνετώτεροι, ἢ τἀπιεικῆ πρόσθεν ἡγοῦνται δίκης.

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37 Sophocles, Ajax

I.3.37

Justice’s golden eye keeps watch, and repays the unjust.¹³²

38 Hesiod, Theogony

I.3.38

And she bore the Fates and the Dooms, ruthless in punishment, who pursue the transgressions of men and gods; never do the goddesses cease from their terrible anger until they pay back bitter retribution to whoever does wrong.¹³³

39 Euripides, Polyidus

I.3.39

No lawbreaker has security against the gods.

40 ⟨Euripides⟩

I.3.40

Do you think the gods are forgiving when someone wishes, by an oath, to escape death, imprisonment, or violent harm from enemies, or shares a home with his children’s killers? Then either they have less understanding than mortals, or they put leniency before justice.¹³⁴

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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Diotimos Editions prepared this independent English translation directly from the Greek. Prose and verse retain their distinct forms, with mixed passages preserving their quoted verse. Every passage is paired with its Greek and identified by the edition’s reference number. All 2,117 notes remain linked to their passages, with continuous numbering across the introduction and text.

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Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 printing are in the public domain. The independent English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions. The complete supplied edition is available as PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown. The PDF retains the fixed page locations used by the companion lexicon.