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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.45.1
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p. 642Τοῦ αὐτοῦ
Καὶ γὰρ ἤδη τὸ ὅλον εἰπεῖν, αἱ μὲν κινήσεις αἱ περὶ τὸν κόσμον τῆς πεπρωμένης πρὸς τὰς ἀΰλους καὶ νοερὰς ἐνεργείας καὶ περιφορὰς ἀφομοιοῦνται, ἡ δὲ τάξις αὐτῆς πρὸς τὴν νοητὴν καὶ ἄχραντον εὐταξίαν ἀπείκασται· τὰ δ’ αἴτια τὰ δεύτερα τοῖς προηγουμένοις αἰτίοις συνήρτηται καὶ τὸ ἐν γενέσει πλῆθος πρὸς τὴν ἀμέριστον οὐσίαν καὶ πάντα οὕτω τὰ τῆς εἱμαρμένης συνῆπται πρὸς τὴν προηγουμένην πρόνοιαν. Κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν οὐσίαν ἄρα ἐπιπλέκεται ἡ εἱμαρμένη τῇ προνοίᾳ καὶ τῷ εἶναι τὴν πρόνοιαν ἐστιν ἡ εἱμαρμένη καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτῆς καὶ περὶ αὐτὴν ὑφέστηκε.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 643The same author
For now, to state the matter as a whole: fate’s movements throughout the cosmos are assimilated to immaterial and intellectual activities and revolutions, and its order is modeled on intelligible and undefiled good order.899 Secondary causes depend on prior causes, and the multiplicity within becoming on indivisible substance; thus everything belonging to fate is connected with providence, which takes precedence. Fate, then, is interwoven with providence in its very being; fate exists by virtue of providence’s existence and has its being from it and around it.900
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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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