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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.42.6
Ancient Greek
p. 622Πορφυρίου — συνέχεια
Εἰ μέντοι ἐνδέχεται καταμαντευσάμενον τῆς Πλάτωνος γνώμης, ἐπιτυχῶς στοχάσασθαι, πόθεν ταῦτα λαβὼν Πλάτων περὶ αὐτῶν διελέχθη ὡς τοῖς γιγνομένοις ὄντων συμφώνων, φαίην ἄν, οἶμαι, ὅτι ⟨παρὰ⟩ τῶν παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοις σοφῶν τοὺς βίους ἐκ τῶν ὡροσκόπων σημειουμένων καὶ τῆς ἐν ταῖς γενέσεσι τῶν ἀστέρων πρὸς τὰ ἐν τῷ ζῳδιακῷ ἄστρα διαθέσεως, ⟨ὡς⟩ ἀκολούθους τῇ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου ἀνατολῇ.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 623Porphyry continued
If, however, by divining Plato’s meaning one can successfully conjecture where Plato obtained these things and discussed them as being in accord with what happens, I would say, I think, that he took them ⟨from⟩ the sages among the Egyptians.870 They infer lives from ascendants and from the arrangement, at births, of the planets in relation to the stars in the zodiac, ⟨as⟩ lives that follow the rising of the ascendant.871
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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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