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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.2.4–II.7.2.5
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p. 124Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Διττὸς δὲ καὶ ὁ περὶ βίων λόγος, ὁ μὲν ἴδιος, ὁ δὲ κοινός· ὧν τὸν μὲν ἴδιον ἐπισκοπεῖν δέον ἐστὶ τὰ πρὸς ἕκαστον, οἷον εἰ τῷ νοῦν ἔχοντι πολιτευτέον ἢ τοῖς ἡγεμονικοῖς συμβιωτέον, ἢ γαμητέον τῷ σοφῷ· τὸν δὲ κοινὸν ⟨τὰ⟩ πρὸς ἅπαντας, οἷόν ἐστι· τίς ἀρίστη πολιτεία; εἰ κοινὰς ποιητέον τὰς ἀρχὰς ἢ τιμητάς; Τοῦτον δὲ τὸν κοινὸν προσαγορευτέον μὲν πολιτικόν, τακτέον δὲ καθ’ αὑτὸν καίπερ ὄντα μέρος τοῦ περὶ βίων διά τε τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τὴν κοινότητα. Εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐνεδέχετο πάντας εἶναι σοφούς, οὐκ ἂν ἐδέησε πλειόνων ἔτι τόπων· οἱ γὰρ κατὰ λεπτὸν διαιρούμενοι παραφυάδες εἰσὶ τῶν προκειμένων.
Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν μέσως διακειμένων ἀνθρώπων πρόνοιαν ποιητέον, οὕς τινας ἐκ τῶν παραινετικῶν λόγων ὠφελεῖσθαι συμβαίνει, μὴ δυναμένους προσευκαιρεῖν ταῖς διεξόδοις πλάτεσιν ἢ διὰ χρόνου στενοχωρίας ἢ διά τινας ἀναγκαίας ἀσχολίας, ἐπεισενεκτέον τὸν ὑποθετικὸν λόγον, δι’ οὗ τὰς πρὸς τὴν ἀσφάλειαν καὶ τὴν ὀρθότητα τῆς ἑκάστου χρήσεως ὑποθήκας ἐν ἐπιτομαῖς ἕξουσιν.
Οὕτως μὲν οὖν ἡ Φίλωνος ἔχει διαίρεσις.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 125Division of the Ethical Field · 4
Discourse about ways of life is also twofold: one part is individual, the other communal. The individual part must examine questions concerning each person, such as whether a person of understanding should take part in politics or associate with rulers, or whether the wise person should marry. The communal part examines ⟨questions⟩ concerning everyone, such as: what is the best constitution? Should public offices be open to all, or subject to a property qualification? This communal part should be called political, and should be arranged separately, although it is part of discourse about ways of life, because of its extent and common concern. If everyone could be wise, no further topics would be needed; for the finer subdivisions are offshoots of those already set out.146
Division of the Ethical Field · 5
But care must also be taken for people of middling condition, who may benefit from advisory discourses but cannot devote time to the full expositions, either because time is short or because of necessary occupations. Discourse giving precepts must therefore be introduced, through which they will have concise instructions for the security and correctness of their use of each thing.
Such, then, is Philo’s division.147
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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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