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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.2.2–II.7.2.3
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p. 122Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Δεύτερος δὲ μετὰ τοῦτον ὁ ⟨τῇ⟩ πρὸς τὴν ἰατρικὴν ἀναλογίᾳ δευτέραν ἔχων τάξιν. Ὡς γὰρ ἰατροῦ μετὰ τὸ πεῖσαι παραδέξασθαι τὴν θεραπείαν τὸ προσάγειν ἐστὶ ταύτην [τοῦ μὲν θεραπευτικοῦ] τὰ μὲν ἐν τῷ προεκκροῦσαι τὰ νοσοποιὰ τῶν αἰτίων, τὰ δ’ ἐν τῷ τὰ παρασκευαστικὰ τῆς ὑγιείας ἐνθεῖναι, οὕτως αὖ κἀπὶ τῆς ἐπιστήμης ἔχει· μετὰ γὰρ τὰ προτρεπτικὰ πειρᾶται τὰ θεραπευτικὰ προσάγειν, ἐφ’ ὃ καὶ τοῖς παρορμητικοῖς κέχρηται διμερῶς· τὸ μὲν ὑπεξαιρετικὸν τῶν ψευδῶς γεγενημένων δοξῶν, δι’ ἃς τὰ κριτήρια νοσοποιεῖται τῆς ψυχῆς, προσάγει λόγον, τὸ δὲ τῶν ὑγιῶς ἐχουσῶν ἐνθετικόν. Δεύτερος οὖν ὁ περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν τόπος, ἐφ’ ὃν καὶ δι’ ὃν ἡ προτροπή.
Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Τῷ δὲ τρίτῳ πάλιν ὁ τρίτος ἀναλογήσει. Καὶ γὰρ τῇ ἰατρικῇ σπουδὴ πᾶσα περὶ τὸ τέλος, τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ὑγίεια, καὶ τῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ περὶ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν. Συνάπτεται δὲ τῷ περὶ τελῶν λόγῳ λόγος ⟨ὁ⟩ περὶ βίων. Ἐπί τε γὰρ τῆς ἰατρικῆς οὐκ ἀρκεῖ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἐμποιῆσαι, χρεία δὲ καὶ τοῦ παρασχεῖν παραγγέλματα περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας, οἷς προσέχοντες τὸν νοῦν τὴν εὐεξίαν τοῦ σώματος διαφυλάξουσι· καὶ δὴ κατὰ τὸν βίον θεωρημάτων τινῶν ἐστι χρεία, δι’ ὧν ἡ φυλακὴ γενήσεται τοῦ τέλους.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 123Division of the Ethical Field · 2
After this comes a second division, occupying second place in the analogy with medicine. Once the physician has persuaded the patient to accept treatment, his task is to administer it: partly by first eliminating the causes of disease, partly by introducing what produces health. So too with philosophical knowledge: after exhortation, it attempts to apply the treatment for which it also employed encouragement, in two parts. It applies one discourse to remove falsely formed opinions, through which the soul’s standards of judgment become diseased, and another to implant sound opinions. Thus the second topic concerns good and evil, toward which and for the sake of which the exhortation is directed.144
Division of the Ethical Field · 3
The third division will in turn correspond to the third stage of medicine. For medicine’s whole concern is with its end, which is health, and philosophy’s with happiness. To discourse about ends is joined discourse about ways of life. In medicine it is not enough to produce health: instructions about health must also be supplied, by attending to which people will preserve the body’s good condition. Likewise, in life certain principles are needed through which the end will be preserved.145
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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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