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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.2.8–II.7.2.9
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p. 130Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Τοῦ γὰρ περὶ τὴν θεωρίαν τῆς καθ’ ἕκαστον ἀξίας τὸ μὲν περὶ τῶν σκοπῶν καὶ τῶν λεγομένων τελῶν τοῦ βίου, τὸ δὲ περὶ τῶν συμβαλλομένων εἰς τὴν τῶν τελῶν περιποίησιν. ⟨Καὶ τὸ μὲν περὶ τῶν τελῶν διαιρεῖται εἴς τε τὸ περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν καὶ τὸ ..... τοῦ δὲ περὶ τῶν συμβαλλομένων εἰς τὴν τῶν τελῶν περιποίησιν⟩ τὸ μέν ἐστι περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν καὶ τῶν κακιῶν, τὸ δὲ περὶ τῶν κατὰ τὰς ἀρετὰς ποιῶν (ὅπερ καὶ καλεῖται χαρακτηριστικόν), τὸ δὲ περὶ τεχνῶν, τὸ δὲ περὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων.
Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Τοῦ μὲν περὶ ἀρετῶν τὸ μὲν ἴδιον, τὸ δὲ κοινόν· ἴδιον μέν, οἷον περὶ δικαιοσύνης, περὶ ἀνδρείας, σωφροσύνης, φρονήσεως, τῶν ἄλλων· κοινὸν δὲ τὸ προτρεπτικόν, τοῦτο γὰρ εἰς τὸ μόνως ἐνδείξασθαι τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν κακίαν. Καὶ ὁ μὲν περὶ τὴν θεωρίαν τῆς καθ’ ἕκαστον ἀξίας λόγος εἰς τοσούτους τόπους γενικοὺς τέμνεται· ὁ γὰρ περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν πολλὰς περιέχει διαιρέσεις, αὐτίκα τὸν περὶ τῶν λεγομένων προηγμένων, τὸν περὶ φιλίας καὶ ἡδονῆς καὶ δόξης καὶ εὐφυΐας. Τῷ δὲ περὶ φιλίας κατὰ γενίκευσιν ὑπάγει τὸν περὶ ἔρωτος τόν ⟨τε⟩ περὶ συμποσίων. Οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ὁμοίως τούσδε σύμπαντας εἰς τὸν περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν ὡς γενικώτατον ὑπέταξε λόγον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 131Division of the Ethical Field · 8
Of the division considering the value of each thing, one part concerns aims and what are called the ends of life, the other what contributes to attaining those ends. ⟨The part concerning ends is divided into that about good and evil and that about …; of the part concerning what contributes to attaining the ends,⟩ one division concerns virtues and vices, another the kinds of people characterized by the virtues—which is also called the description of character—another the arts, and another pursuits.150
Division of the Ethical Field · 9
Of the division concerning virtues, one part is particular, the other general. The particular part concerns, for example, justice, courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and the others. The general part is exhortatory, since it aims simply to display virtue and vice. Discourse considering the value of each thing is divided into this many general topics; for the division about good and evil contains many subdivisions, such as those about so-called preferred things, friendship, pleasure, reputation, and natural aptitude. Under friendship, treated as a general category, he places love ⟨and⟩ drinking parties. Nevertheless, he likewise subordinates all these to discourse about good and evil as the most general category.151
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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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