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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.19.11–II.7.19.12
Ancient Greek
p. 470Δι’ αὑτὰ καὶ ποιητικὰ ἀγαθά
Ἔτι τῶν ἀγαθῶν τὰ μὲν εἶναι δι’ αὑθ’ αἱρετὰ μόνον, ὡς ἡδονὴν καὶ ἀοχλησίαν· τὰ δὲ ποιητικὰ μόνον, ὡς πλοῦτον· τὰ δὲ ⟨καὶ⟩ ποιητικὰ καὶ δι’ αὑθ’ αἱρετά, ὡς ἀρετήν, φίλους, ὑγίειαν.
Ὁμωνυμία καὶ κατηγορίαι
Καὶ ἄλλως δὲ πολλαχῶς διαιρεῖσθαι τἀγαθά, διὰ τὸ μὴ ἓν εἶναι γένος αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰς δέκα λέγεσθαι κατηγορίας· ἐν ὁμωνυμίᾳ γὰρ ἐκφέρεσθαι τἀγαθόν, τά τε τοιαῦτα πάντα ὄνομα κοινὸν ἔχειν μόνον, τὸν δὲ κατὰ τοὔνομα λόγον ἕτερον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 471Intrinsic and Productive Goods
Again, some goods are choiceworthy only for their own sake, such as pleasure and freedom from disturbance; some are only productive, such as wealth; and some are ⟨both⟩ productive and choiceworthy for their own sake, such as virtue, friends, and health.627
Homonymy and the Categories
Goods are also divided in many other ways, because they do not constitute one genus but are spoken of according to the ten categories. For “good” is expressed homonymously: all such things have only a name in common, while the account corresponding to that name differs.628
Socrates
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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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