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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3f.3
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p. 152Περὶ τέλους · Πλάτων · συνέχεια
Τὸ δέ γε πολύφωνον τοῦ Πλάτωνος ⟨οὐ πολύδοξον⟩. Εἴρηται δὲ καὶ τὰ περὶ τοῦ τέλους αὐτῷ πολλαχῶς. Καὶ τὴν μὲν ποικιλίαν τῆς φράσεως ἔχει διὰ τὸ λόγιον καὶ μεγαλήγορον, εἰς δὲ ταὐτὸ καὶ σύμφωνον τοῦ δόγματος συντελεῖ. Τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ κατ’ ἀρετὴν ζῆν. Τοῦτο δ’ αὖ κτῆσις ἅμα καὶ χρῆσις τῆς τελείας ἀρετῆς. Ὅτι δὲ τέλος αὐτὴν ἡγεῖται, τέταχεν ἐν Τιμαίῳ ⟨εἰπὼν⟩ καὶ τοὔνομα· φράσω δὲ καὶ τἀκροτελεύτιον τῆς περιοχῆς· ἔχει δ’ οὕτως· “ὁμοιώσαντα δὲ τέλος ἔχειν τοῦ προτεθέντος ἀνθρώποις ὑπὸ θεῶν ἀρίστου βίου πρός τε τὸν παρόντα καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα”.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 153On the End · Plato 3
Plato’s many voices ⟨do not amount to many doctrines⟩. He has also spoken about the end in many ways. His variety of expression arises from his eloquence and grandeur of speech, but converges on one consistent doctrine. This is living according to virtue; and this, in turn, is both the possession and the exercise of complete virtue.171 That he regards it as the end is shown by his use of the very word in the Timaeus, ⟨saying⟩ it expressly. I shall give the conclusion of the passage as well; it runs as follows: “Having made oneself like it, to attain the end of the best life set before human beings by the gods, both for the present and for the future.”172
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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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