Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Δικαστήρια καὶ ἀρχαί

II.7.26.17

Δικαστήρια δὲ καὶ βουλευτήρια καὶ ἐκκλησίας καὶ ἀρχὰς διωρίσθαι ταῖς πολιτείαις οἰκείως. Κοινοτάτας δ’ ἀρχὰς εἶναι ἱερωσύνην θεῶν, στρατηγίαν, ναυαρχίαν, ἀγορανομίαν, γυμνασιαρχίαν, γυναικονομίαν, παιδονομίαν, ἀστυνομίαν, ταμιείαν, νομοφυλακίαν, πρακτορείαν. Τούτων δ’ εἶναι τὰς μὲν κατὰ πόλεις, τὰς δὲ κατὰ πόλεμον, τὰς δὲ περὶ τοὺς λιμένας καὶ τὰς ἐμπορίας.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Courts and Public Offices

II.7.26.17

Courts, council chambers, assemblies, and offices are determined in a manner appropriate to the constitutions.⁷⁶³ The most common offices are priesthood of the gods, military command, naval command, supervision of markets, administration of gymnasia, oversight of women, oversight of children, city administration, treasury administration, guardianship of the laws, and collection of revenues.⁷⁶⁴ Some of these concern cities, some war, and others ports and trade.⁷⁶⁵

763.Βουλευτήρια are council chambers or the institutions meeting in them; ἐκκλησίαι are civic assemblies. The arrangement of these institutions is said to fit the particular constitution, rather than to be identical in every city.

764.All eleven offices are retained in their printed order. A gymnasium was an institution of physical training and education. Γυναικονομία and παιδονομία designate official oversight of women and children; ἀστυνομία concerns administration of the city, not a modern police force. Ταμιεία concerns the treasury, and νομοφυλακία guardianship of laws.

765.Πρακτορεία is a rare term, rendered collection of revenues in this list of offices; LSJ gives collectorship and cites this passage. Its connection is with a πράκτωρ, a collector or official who exacts dues. The final three spheres are civic, military, and commercial; the text does not assign every listed office individually to one of them.

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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