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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.42.5
Ancient Greek
p. 620Πορφυρίου — συνέχεια
Δι’ ὃ κεῖται μὲν τὰ παραδείγματα καὶ τῶν πρώτων καὶ δευτέρων· ἐπὶ δὲ ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐστι, τούς τε πρώτους ἑλέσθαι βίους καὶ ζῆσαι, φέρε, βίον ἀνθρώπου, τῶν τε δευτέρων ἑλέσθαι βίον τινά· ἑλομένῳ δὲ καὶ ζῶντι κατὰ τοῦτον, ἀνάγκη τἀκόλουθα καὶ δρᾶσαι καὶ παθεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 621Porphyry continued
That is why patterns of both primary and secondary lives are set out. It is up to souls to choose primary lives and live, for example, a human life, and to choose some life among the secondary ones. But once someone has chosen and is living accordingly, he must both do and undergo what follows from it.869
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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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