Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.64.9–I.49.64.11

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64.9

I.49.64.9

Καὶ οἷον εἴ τινες πολλοῖς θανάτων ἦσαν αἴτιοι, ἢ πόλεις προδόντες ἢ στρατόπεδα καὶ εἰς δουλείας ἐμβεβληκότες, ἤ τινος ἄλλης κακουχίας μεταίτιοι, πάντων τούτων δεκαπλασίας ἀλγηδόνας κομίσαιντο·

64.10

I.49.64.10

Καὶ αὖ εἴ τινας εὐεργεσίας εὐεργετηκότες καὶ δίκαιοι καὶ ὅσιοι γεγονότες εἶεν, κατὰ ταὐτὰ τὴν ἀξίαν κομίζοιντο. Τῶν δ᾽ εὐθὺς γενομένων καὶ ὀλίγον χρόνον βιούντων πέρι ἄλλα ἔλεγεν οὐκ ἄξια μνήμης.

64.11

I.49.64.11

Εἰς δὲ θεοὺς ἀσεβείας τε καὶ εὐσεβείας καὶ γονέας καὶ αὐτόχειρας φόνου μείζους ἔτι τοὺς μισθοὺς διηγεῖτο.

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64.9 · Wrongdoing on a large scale

I.49.64.9

For example, if any had caused the deaths of many, betrayed cities or armies and delivered people into slavery, or shared responsibility for some other maltreatment, they would receive tenfold suffering for all these acts.¹⁷⁹⁸

64.10 · Good deeds and very short lives

I.49.64.10

And again, if they had performed good deeds and had been just and reverent, they received their due on the same terms. About those newly born who had lived only a short time, he said other things that need not be recalled.¹⁷⁹⁹

64.11 · Greater recompenses

I.49.64.11

He described still greater recompenses for irreverence and reverence toward gods and parents, and for killing committed with one’s own hand.¹⁸⁰⁰

1798.The scan prints kakouchias, maltreatment, retained here. The examples extend responsibility beyond the person who directly acts: metaitioi includes those sharing in the cause. The omitted object of delivered into slavery is made explicit as people, without narrowing it to one of the preceding groups.

1799.The corresponding recompense for good deeds follows the same general scheme. The narrator expressly declines to recount the treatment of very short lives; the missing detail is not supplied. Hosioi conveys religious or sacred propriety as well as moral conduct.

1800.The printed autocheiras phonou is grammatically difficult and is retained. English provisionally takes it as personal responsibility for homicide; it does not impose the narrower meaning suicide. Misthoi, recompenses, covers both favorable and unfavorable outcomes in this context.

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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