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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.42.3
Ancient Greek
p. 616Πορφυρίου — συνέχεια
Ἀρέσκει καὶ τὸ χραίνεσθαι τὸ μὲν ἐπὶ ταῖς ψυχαῖς αὐτεξούσιον ὑπὸ τῆς ἐγγινομένης ἐνταῦθα προβιοτῆς, τὸ δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις αὐτεξούσιον ἐκ τῆς πρός τινα τῶν τῇδε βίων τῆς ⟨ψυχῆς⟩ ἔξω ἔτι οὔσης ῥοπῆς, ἣν αἵρεσιν ὁ Πλάτων λέγει.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 617Porphyry continued
It is also acceptable to hold that the self-government of souls is defiled by the prior life lived here, while the self-government of human beings is defiled by the inclination toward one of the lives here of the ⟨soul⟩ while it is still outside the body, which Plato calls choice.866
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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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