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.7.20.16–II.7.20.17

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Ἀνδρεία καὶ ἀναλογία τῆς δικαιοσύνης

II.7.20.16

ἀνδρεῖόν τε οὔτε τὸν μηδὲν φοβούμενον, κἂν ᾖ θεὸς ὁ ἐπιών, οὔτε τὸν πάντα καὶ τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον τὴν σκιὰν . . ., δίκαιόν τε οὔτε τὸν τὸ πλέον ἑαυτῷ νέμοντα οὔτε τὸν τὸ ἔλαττον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τὸ ἴσον· τὸ δ’ ἴσον τὸ κατὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον, οὐ κατ’ ἀριθμόν·

Ἐλευθεριότης καὶ τὰ ἄκρα

II.7.20.17

⟨ἐλευθέριόν⟩ τε οὔτε τὸν προετικὸν ὅπως ἔτυχεν οὔτε τὸν ἀπρόετον . .,

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Courage and Proportionate Justice

II.7.20.16

Courageous is neither the person who fears nothing, even if a god is advancing against him, nor the person who fears everything and, as the saying goes, a shadow [text missing].⁶⁵⁶ Just is neither the person who allots himself more nor the person who allots himself less, but the person who allots himself an equal share. Equal here means proportionately equal, not numerically equal.⁶⁵⁷

Generosity and Its Extremes

II.7.20.17

⟨Generous⟩ is neither the person who gives things away haphazardly nor the person who gives nothing away [text missing].⁶⁵⁸

656.The source now gives a god advancing against someone, rather than the earlier thunderbolt. Both comparisons are retained. Wachsmuth marks a gap after the shadow; the English signals it without supplying the missing description of the courageous mean.

657.Justice concerns allocation in this example. The explanation expressly distinguishes equality κατὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον, according to proportion, from equality κατ’ ἀριθμόν, by number. Thus equal share here cannot simply mean the same numerical quantity for every recipient. The criterion of proportion is not further specified in this sentence.

658.The supplied ἐλευθέριον remains bracketed as Generous. Προετικός concerns readiness to give away, qualified by ὅπως ἔτυχεν, haphazardly. Wachsmuth prints the corrected ἀπρόετον, someone unwilling to give away, rather than transmitted ἀπροαίρετον, without deliberate choice. The following gap is retained; no description of the mean is supplied.

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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