Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 33 · II.33.15–II.33.15a

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Ἰάμβλιχος Μακεδονίῳ περὶ Ὁμονοίας

II.33.15

Ἡ ὁμόνοια, καθάπερ αὐτὸ τὸ ὄνομα βούλεται ἐνδείκνυσθαι, συναγωγὴν ὁμοίου τοῦ νοῦ κοινωνίαν τε καὶ ἕνωσιν ἐν ἑαυτῇ συνείληφεν· ἀφορμηθεῖσα δὴ οὖν ἐντεῦθεν ἐπὶ πόλεις καὶ οἴκους, κοινούς τε συλλόγους πάντας καὶ ἰδίους [οἴκους], φύσεις τε καὶ συγγενείας πάσας ἐπιπορεύεται, κοινάς τε καὶ ἰδίας ὡσαύτως· ἔτι δὲ περιέχει καὶ τὴν ἑνὸς ἑκάστου πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ὁμογνωμοσύνην· ὑφ’ ἑνὸς μὲν γάρ τις νοήματος καὶ μιᾶς γνώμης κυβερνώμενος ὁμονοεῖ πρὸς ἑαυτόν, διχογνωμονῶν δὲ πρὸς ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἀνόμοια λογιζόμενος διαστασιάζει· καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀεὶ αὐτῆς ἐπιμένων διανοήσεως ὁμοφροσύνης ἐστὶ πλήρης· ὁ δὲ ἄστατος τοῖς λογισμοῖς καὶ ἄλλοτε ἐπ’ ἄλλην δόξην φερόμενος ἀστάθμητός ἐστι καὶ πολέμιος πρὸς ἑαυτόν.

⟨Πλάτωνος⟩

II.33.15a

Φιλία ἡ μὲν ἀπὸ ἐναντίων δεινὴ καὶ ἀγρία καὶ τὸ κοινὸν οὐ πολλάκις ἔχουσα ἐν ἡμῖν, ἡ δ’ ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων ἥμερος τε καὶ κοινὴ διὰ βίου.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 33

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Iamblichus to Macedonius, On Concord

II.33.15

Concord, as its very name seeks to indicate, embraces within itself a bringing together of like mind, fellowship and union.¹⁴⁹⁰ Starting from this, it extends to cities and households, to all public and private gatherings, and ranges over all natures and relationships, public and private alike.¹⁴⁹¹ It also includes each individual’s agreement with himself. For someone governed by a single thought and a single judgment is at concord with himself; but someone divided in judgment within himself and reasoning inconsistently is at variance. The person who holds to the same understanding throughout is full of like-mindedness; but one whose reasoning is unstable, who is carried now to one opinion and now to another, is unsteady and at war with himself.¹⁴⁹²

⟨Plato⟩

II.33.15a

Friendship arising from opposites is fierce and wild, and does not often afford us a shared bond; friendship arising from those who are alike is gentle and shared throughout life.¹⁴⁹³

1490.The explanation connects ὁμόνοια, concord, with likeness or agreement of νοῦς, mind. The passage then extends this agreement from relationships among people to agreement within a single person.

1491.The second [οἴκους], households, is rejected in the printed Greek and omitted from the English. Wachsmuth records Meineke’s deletion. Public and private are then applied to both gatherings and the following natures and relationships.

1492.The account of inward concord contrasts governance by one thought and judgment with divided judgment and shifting opinions. The translation retains the local ἐπ’ ἄλλην δόξην, toward another opinion, rather than adopting an alternative from the apparatus.

1493.Wachsmuth supplies the attribution to Plato, Laws VIII, 837B, and separates this excerpt from the preceding Iamblichus passage. The contrast is between friendship from opposites and from those who are alike; τὸ κοινόν is what they hold in common.

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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