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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Book I Chapter 50 · I.50.13–I.50.16

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13

I.50.13

Οἱ ἄλλοι εἰδῶν ἢ σχημάτων ἑτεροιώσει ⟨ἢ⟩ ἐν ψυχῇ τυπώσει, ἀπορροίαις πάντως μᾶλλον ἢ εἰδώλοις.

14

I.50.14

Οἱ Στωικοὶ πᾶσαν αἴσθησιν εἶναι συγκατάθεσιν καὶ κατάληψιν.

15

I.50.15

Οἱ Ἀκαδημαϊκοὶ μὴ εἶναι τὰς αἰσθήσεις μήτε καταλήψεις μήτε συγκαταθέσεις.

16

I.50.16

Οἱ Περιπατητικοὶ οὐκ ἄνευ μὲν συγκαταθέσεως τὰς αἰσθήσεις, οὐ μέντοι συγκαταθέσεις.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 50

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13 · Alteration or impression

I.50.13

Others hold that these arise through an alteration of forms or shapes ⟨or⟩ an imprint in the soul, at any rate through effluences rather than images.¹⁹²⁴

14 · Assent and apprehension

I.50.14

The Stoics hold that every perception is an assent and an apprehension.¹⁹²⁵

15 · Neither apprehension nor assent

I.50.15

The Academics hold that perceptions are neither apprehensions nor assents.¹⁹²⁶

16 · Accompanied by assent

I.50.16

The Peripatetics hold that perceptions do not occur without assent, but are not themselves assents.¹⁹²⁷

1924.The omitted subjects, perception and thought, continue from excerpt 12. The supplied or separates alteration from imprinting in the soul. The relation of the final phrase to these alternatives is compressed and provisionally rendered. Effluences translates aporrhoiai, things flowing away from a source; the Greek distinguishes them here from eidōla, images.

1925.Synkatathesis is assent, acceptance of what is presented; katalēpsis is apprehension or a cognitive grasp. Both are predicated of every perception in this compressed report. The next two excerpts distinguish alternative relations between perception and assent.

1926.This is a denial that perception itself is either of the two things asserted in excerpt 14. It does not here deny that perception occurs. Academics names members of the Academy collectively; no particular thinker or period is specified.

1927.The distinction is between accompaniment and identity. On this report, assent is necessary to perception, yet perception and assent are not the same activity. The three reports in excerpts 14-16 are retained in their sharply contrasting form.

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.

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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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