Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.7b.2–II.7.7b.3

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Προηγμένα περὶ ψυχὴν καὶ σῶμα καὶ ἐκτός

II.7.7b.2

Τῶν δὲ προηγμένων τὰ μὲν εἶναι περὶ ψυχήν, τὰ δὲ περὶ σῶμα, τὰ δ’ ἐκτός. Περὶ ψυχὴν μὲν εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα· εὐφυΐαν, προκοπήν, μνήμην, ὀξύτητα διανοίας, ἕξιν καθ’ ἣν ἐπίμονοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ τῶν καθηκόντων καὶ τέχνας ὅσαι δύνανται συνεργεῖν ἐπιπλέον πρὸς τὸν κατὰ φύσιν βίον· περὶ σῶμα δ’ εἶναι προηγμένα ὑγίειαν, εὐαισθησίαν καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις· τῶν δ’ ἐκτὸς γονεῖς, τέκνα, κτῆσιν σύμμετρον, ἀποδοχὴν παρὰ ἀνθρώπων.

Ἀποπροηγμένα

II.7.7b.3

Τῶν δ’ ἀποπροηγμένων περὶ ψυχὴν μὲν εἶναι τὰ ἐναντία τοῖς εἰρημένοις· περὶ σῶμα δὲ καὶ ἐκτὸς τὰ ὁμοίως ἀντιτιθέμενα τοῖς εἰρημένοις περί τε σῶμα καὶ τοῖς ἐκτὸς προηγμένοις.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Preferred Things of Soul Body and Externals

II.7.7b.2

Of preferred things, some concern the soul, others the body, and others are external. Those concerning the soul include natural aptitude, progress, memory, sharpness of thought, a state in which people persevere in appropriate actions, and such arts as can contribute further to a life in accordance with nature.³¹⁸ Preferred things concerning the body include health, keenness of perception, and the like; external ones include parents, children, moderate possessions, and acceptance among people.³¹⁹

Dispreferred Things

II.7.7b.3

Of dispreferred things, those concerning the soul are the opposites of the things just mentioned. Those concerning the body and external things are likewise the opposites of the bodily things just mentioned and of the external preferred things.³²⁰

318.Progress, προκοπή, and natural aptitude are listed among preferred indifferents, rather than identified with completed virtue. The arts are qualified: only those able to contribute to the natural life are included here. Καθήκοντα retains the translation “appropriate actions.”

319.Κτῆσις σύμμετρος means possessions in due or moderate measure; the source does not simply list unlimited wealth. Ἀποδοχή is acceptance or favorable reception among people. These items are still classified as preferred indifferents, despite the importance of family and social relations in ordinary life.

320.The source refers back to its preceding list rather than spelling out each opposite. Wachsmuth’s apparatus records a longer list in scholia on Lucian; it is not incorporated into the facing Greek or translated as though it belonged to this passage.

About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

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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