Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Stobaeus, Volume IBook I Chapter 60 · I.60.1.9–I.60.1.11

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Book I Chapter 60 · I.60.1.9–I.60.1.11

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p. 1706

1.9

I.60.1.9

Καὶ δὴ καὶ τὰ τῶν περὶ τὰς ἰατρικὰς σικύας παθημάτων αἴτια καὶ τὰ τῆς πόσεως τά τε τῶν ῥιπτουμένων, ὅσα ἀφεθέντα μετέωρα καὶ ὅσα ἐπὶ γῆς φέρεται, ταύτῃ διωκτέον,

1.10

I.60.1.10

καὶ ὅσοι φθόγγοι ταχεῖς καὶ βραδεῖς, ὀξεῖς τε καὶ βαρεῖς φαίνονται, τοτὲ μὲν ἀνάρμοστοι φερόμενοι δι᾽ ἀνομοιότητα τῆς ἐν ἡμῖν ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν κινήσεως· τοτὲ δὲ ξύμφωνοι δι᾽ ὁμοιότητα.

1.11

I.60.1.11

Τὰς γὰρ τῶν προτέρων καὶ θαττόνων οἱ βραδύτεροι κινήσεις ἀποπαυομένας ἤδη τε εἰς ὅμοιον ἐληλυθυίας, αἷς ὕστερον αὐτοὶ προσφερόμενοι κινοῦσιν ἐκείνας, καταλαμβάνουσι,

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 60

p. 1707

1.9 · Cupping, drinking, and moving bodies

I.60.1.9

“The causes of the effects associated with medical cupping vessels, of drinking, and of thrown objects that, once released, travel through the air or along the ground must also be investigated in this way.”²⁰⁷⁵

1.10 · Discord and concord

I.60.1.10

“So too with sounds that appear swift or slow, high or low: sometimes they arrive in discord because of dissimilarity in the movement they cause within us, and sometimes in concord because of similarity.”²⁰⁷⁶

1.11 · The slower sounds catch the earlier movements

I.60.1.11

“For the slower sounds catch the movements of the earlier, faster sounds when those movements are already subsiding and have become similar to the movements with which the slower sounds, approaching later, move them.”²⁰⁷⁷

2075.Iatrikai sikyai are cupping vessels used in ancient medicine. The argument extends reciprocal displacement to effects otherwise described in terms of suction or continued motion after release. The apparatus reports a different word connected with swallowing in Plato; the printed posis, drinking, is retained here.

2076.The explanation connects concord and discord with the movements that sounds produce in the perceiver. Swift and slow are retained as the text’s physical descriptions, alongside high and low pitch; they are not replaced with a modern account in terms of frequency. Compare I.53.5.3.

2077.The slower sounds are the grammatical subject, and the earlier movements the object of catch. The relative clause is compressed: the English takes ais as referring to the movements imparted by the later sounds, and ekeinas to the earlier movements. This interpretation retains the printed wording without supplying a missing Greek noun.

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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