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.7.25.5–II.7.25.6

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Πραότης ἐλευθεριότης καὶ μεγαλοψυχία

II.7.25.5

πραότητα δὲ ἕξιν μέσην ὀργιλότητος καὶ ἀναλγησίας· ἐλευθεριότητα δὲ μεσότητα ἀσωτίας καὶ ἀνελευθερίας· μεγαλοψυχίαν δὲ μεσότητα χαυνότητος καὶ μικροψυχίας·

Μεγαλοπρέπεια καὶ νέμεσις

II.7.25.6

μεγαλοπρέπειαν δὲ ⟨μεσότητα σαλακωνείας καὶ μικροπρεπείας· νέμεσιν δὲ⟩ μεσότητα φθονερίας καὶ ἐπιχαιρεκακίας·

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Gentleness Generosity and Greatness of Soul

II.7.25.5

Gentleness is a state intermediate between irascibility and callousness; generosity, a mean between prodigality and illiberality;⁷⁰⁵ greatness of soul, a mean between vanity and smallness of soul.⁷⁰⁶

Magnificence and Indignation

II.7.25.6

Magnificence is ⟨a mean between ostentation and pettiness;⁷⁰⁷ indignation is⟩ a mean between enviousness and malicious joy.⁷⁰⁸

705.The extremes remain in their printed order. Gentleness occupies the middle between readiness to anger and lack of feeling; generosity between wasteful giving and lack of generosity. The source prints πραότητα here, while the earlier discussion also uses forms with iota subscript. No change of the named virtue is intended.

706.Χαυνότης is puffed-up vanity, and μικροψυχία smallness of soul. The order here is vanity followed by smallness of soul, whereas the list in II.7.20.13 placed smallness of soul before vanity. Both source orders are retained.

707.The continuous angle-bracketed supplement begins with the mean defining magnificence and ends with the introduction of indignation. Its entire extent remains bracketed in Greek and English. Σαλακωνεία is ostentation or affected grandeur, a variant of the σαλακωνία printed in II.7.20.13; μικροπρέπεια is pettiness. The two printed forms are not silently made identical.

708.Φθονερία is enviousness and ἐπιχαιρεκακία malicious joy at another’s misfortune. Νέμεσις is indignation, distinct from both. Its fuller association with undeserved good fortune was explained at II.7.21.1. The mean classification remains the one asserted by this account.

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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