Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 50 · I.50.2b–I.50.4

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2b

I.50.2b

Λέγει δὲ ἐν τῷ Φιλήβῳ ὧδε·

“Τὸ δὲ ἐν ἑνὶ πάθει τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸ σῶμα κοινῇ γιγνόμενον κοινῇ καὶ κινεῖσθαι, ταύτην δὲ τὴν κίνησιν ὀνομάζων αἴσθησιν οὐκ ἀπὸ τρόπου φθέγγοιο ἄν;

Ἀληθέστατα λέγεις.”

3

I.50.3

⟨Ἀετίου.⟩

Κατὰ τοὺς Περιπατητικοὺς τετραχῶς· ἐξ οὗ τὸ ἡγεμονικόν, δι᾽ οὗ τὸ ὄργανον καὶ αἰσθητήριον, καθ᾽ ὃ ἡ ἐνέργεια, καὶ ⟨οὗ⟩ ἕνεκα τὸ αἰσθητόν.

4

I.50.4

Λεύκιππος, Δημόκριτος τὰς αἰσθήσεις καὶ τὰς νοήσεις ἑτεροιώσεις εἶναι τοῦ σώματος.

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2b · A shared movement

I.50.2b

And he says as follows in the Philebus:

“When soul and body come together in a single affection and are also moved together, would you not speak appropriately in calling this movement perception?”

“What you say is entirely true.”¹⁹¹²

3 · Four aspects of perception

I.50.3

⟨Aëtius.⟩

According to the Peripatetics, it is understood in four ways: that from which it proceeds, the ruling part; that through which it occurs, the instrument and sense organ; that in accordance with which it occurs, the activity; and that ⟨for whose⟩ sake it occurs, the perceptible object.¹⁹¹³

4 · Changes of the body

I.50.4

Leucippus and Democritus hold that perceptions and acts of thought are alterations of the body.¹⁹¹⁴

1912.The edition identifies Philebus 34a. Pathos means an affection or something undergone, not necessarily an emotion or suffering. The English untangles the compressed infinitive construction while retaining both shared affection and shared movement. The change of speaker is shown by a new paragraph.

1913.The supplied group attribution covers excerpts 3-6: Aëtius IV.8.4-7, Diels p. 394. The Greek gives four compressed relations rather than four complete definitions. Hēgemonikon is the ruling or governing part. The supplied hou completes the final relation, for whose sake; its counterpart is marked in English.

1914.Heteroiōseis are changes or alterations. The report places both sensing and thinking in the same bodily category; it does not here describe the mechanism of that change. A fuller account through incoming images follows in excerpt 12.

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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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