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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.5b5.2
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p. 198Αἱ ἴδιαι καὶ κοιναὶ θεωρίαι
τῆς δὲ σωφροσύνης ἴδιον κεφάλαιόν ἐστι τὸ παρέχεσθαι τὰς ὁρμὰς εὐσταθεῖς καὶ θεωρεῖν αὐτὰς προηγουμένως, κατὰ δὲ τὸν δεύτερον λόγον τὰ ὑπὸ τὰς ἄλλας ἀρετάς, ἕνεκα τοῦ ἀδιαπτώτως ἐν ταῖς ὁρμαῖς ἀναστρέφεσθαι· καὶ ὁμοίως τὴν ἀνδρείαν προηγουμένως μὲν πᾶν ὃ δεῖ ὑπομένειν, κατὰ δὲ τὸν δεύτερον λόγον τὰ ὑπὸ τὰς ἄλλας· καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην προηγουμένως μὲν τὸ κατ’ ἀξίαν ἑκάστῳ σκοπεῖν, κατὰ δὲ τὸν δεύτερον λόγον καὶ τὰ λοιπά. Πάσας γὰρ τὰς ἀρετὰς τὰ πασῶν βλέπειν καὶ τὰ ὑποτεταγμένα ἀλλήλαις.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 199The Particular and Shared Concerns
Temperance’s particular principal concern is to make the impulses steady and to consider them primarily; secondarily, it considers what falls under the other virtues, so as to conduct oneself without error in one’s impulses.226 Similarly, courage considers primarily everything that should be endured, and secondarily what falls under the others. Justice considers primarily what accords with each person’s worth, and secondarily the remaining concerns as well. For all the virtues have in view the concerns of all, including what falls under the other virtues.227
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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