Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek with an independent English translation.

Explore the Lexicon

Stobaeus, Volume IBook I Chapter 50 · I.50.25–I.50.27

Swipe or use the arrow keys.

Ancient Greek Page · Branch 801 of 879

Book I Chapter 50 · I.50.25–I.50.27

Book Mode

Ancient Greek

p. 1598

25

I.50.25

⟨Ἀετίου.⟩

Παρμενίδης, Ἐμπεδοκλῆς ἐλλείψει τροφῆς τὴν ὄρεξιν.

26

I.50.26

⟨Ἀετίου.⟩

Οἱ τὰ ἄτομα καὶ οἱ τὰ ὁμοιομερῆ καὶ οἱ τὰ ἀμερῆ καὶ τὰ ἐλάχιστα πάντ᾽ ἐν πᾶσι τὰ αἰσθητὰ ἀναμεμίχθαι καὶ μηδὲν αὐτῶν εἰλικρινὲς ὑπάρχειν, παρὰ δὲ τὰς ἐπικρατείας ὀνομάζεσθαι τοῖον ἢ τοῖον καὶ παρὰ τὴν πολυαύγειαν.

27

I.50.27

Πυθαγόρας καὶ Πλάτων καθαρὸν ἕκαστον εἶναι τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἐξ ἑκάστου στοιχείου προερχόμενον. Πρὸς μὲν οὖν τὴν ὅρασιν τὸ αἰθερῶδες πεφυκέναι, πρὸς δὲ τὴν ἀκοὴν τὸ πνευματικόν, πρὸς δὲ τὴν ὄσφρησιν τὸ πυρῶδες, πρὸς δὲ τὴν γεῦσιν τὸ ὑγρόν, πρὸς δὲ τὴν ἁφὴν τὸ γεῶδες.

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 50

p. 1599

25 · Appetite and deficiency

I.50.25

⟨Aëtius.⟩

Parmenides and Empedocles hold that appetite arises from a lack of nourishment.¹⁹³⁸

26 · Mixture and predominance

I.50.26

⟨Aëtius.⟩

Those who posit atoms, those who posit things with like parts, and those who posit partless things and minima hold that all perceptible things are mixed in all things and none is unmixed. Each is called this or that according to what predominates and according to its abundance of radiance.¹⁹³⁹

27 · Senses and elements

I.50.27

Pythagoras and Plato hold that each perceptible thing is pure, proceeding from its respective element. The ethereal is naturally suited to sight, the pneumatic to hearing, the fiery to smell, the moist to taste, and the earthy to touch.¹⁹⁴⁰

1938.The editor supplies Aëtius IV.9.14, Diels p. 399. Orexis is appetite or desire directed toward something; here the lack of nourishment specifies its setting. No missing text is marked after this brief sentence, although an earlier editor had proposed a gap there.

1939.The supplied attribution covers excerpts 26-30: Aëtius IV.9.9-13, Diels p. 397 and following. Posit supplies the verb understood with the opening groups, as the apparatus explains. Homoiomerē means things with like parts. The final polyaugeia literally suggests abundant radiance or brightness; its precise role here is unclear, and the translation is provisional.

1940.This report contrasts pure elemental sources with the mixtures of excerpt 26. Pneumatic means pertaining to breath or pneuma. All five printed correspondences are retained, including the ethereal with sight and the fiery with smell; they have not been exchanged to fit another elemental scheme.

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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.

Rights

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.