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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3g.2
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p. 156Περὶ τέλους · Ἀριστοτέλης · συνέχεια
Πολλαχῶς δ’ ἔξεστι τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν ὁρίσασθαι κατ’ αὐτόν· “ἐνέργειαν κατ’ ἀρετὴν τελείαν ἐν βίῳ τελείῳ χορηγουμένην” καὶ “βίος καλὸς καὶ τέλειος χορηγούμενος”· καὶ τὸ πάντων σαφέστατον “χρῆσις ἀρετῆς τελείας ἐν βίῳ τελείῳ χορηγουμένη”. ‘⟨Ἐν⟩ βίῳ δὲ τελείῳ’ λέγει πρὸς τὴν διάστασιν τῆς χρήσεως τῶν ἀγαθῶν· ‘χορηγουμένην’ δὲ χάριν τοῦ τὴν χρῆσιν ἐν ἀγαθοῖς γίγνεσθαι, μὴ ἐν κακοῖς. Τοῦτο μὲν οὖν τὸ τέλος· τὸ δ’ αὐτὸ συνωνύμως εὐδαιμονία παρὰ Πλάτωνος μετηνιγμένον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 157On the End · Aristotle 2
Happiness can be defined in several ways according to him: “An activity in accordance with complete virtue, furnished with resources in a complete life”; “a noble and complete life furnished with resources”; and, clearest of all, “the exercise of complete virtue, furnished with resources in a complete life.” He says “⟨in⟩ a complete life” with reference to the duration of the exercise of goods, and “furnished with resources” so that the exercise takes place amid good things, not bad.175 This, then, is the end; the same thing is also called happiness, a synonymous term taken over from Plato.176
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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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