Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 50 · I.50.7–I.50.9

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7

I.50.7

⟨Ἀετίου.⟩

†πελλῆς πλείους αἰσθήσεις εἶναι περὶ τὰ ἄλογα ζῷα.

8

I.50.8

⟨Ἀετίου.⟩

Δημόκριτος πλείους μὲν εἶναι τὰς αἰσθήσεις τῶν αἰσθητῶν, τῷ δὲ μὴ ἀναλογίζειν τὰ αἰσθητὰ τῷ πλήθει λανθάνειν.

9

I.50.9

Οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι παρίσους.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 50

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7 · An uncertain attribution

I.50.7

⟨Aëtius.⟩

†Pellēs holds that there are more senses in nonrational animals.¹⁹¹⁸

8 · Senses without corresponding objects

I.50.8

⟨Aëtius.⟩

Democritus holds that the senses are more numerous than perceptible objects, but go unnoticed because the perceptible objects do not correspond to them in number.¹⁹¹⁹

9 · Equal numbers

I.50.9

The others hold that they are equal in number.¹⁹²⁰

1918.The name is corrupt: the single printed dagger is retained, and Pellēs merely transliterates the surviving letters. The apparatus discusses Aristotle and tentatively Empedocles, but neither is installed in the text. More lacks an explicit comparison. The editor supplies Aëtius IV.10.3, Diels p. 399; alternative interpretations of the sentence remain unresolved.

1919.The supplied attribution covers excerpts 8-9: Aëtius IV.10.5-6, Diels p. 399. The construction is compressed; the English provisionally takes the senses as the subject of go unnoticed. It retains the printed comparison and does not reverse it to make the objects more numerous. The force of analogizein, correspond, is uncertain.

1920.The sentence supplies only the contrast others and the adjective equal. Its two terms are understood from excerpt 8: senses and perceptible objects. The report does not identify these other thinkers individually.

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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.

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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