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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.5b.3
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p. 182Ζήνων · κακίαι καὶ ἄλλα κακά
Ἀνάλογον δὲ καὶ τῶν κακῶν τὰ μὲν εἶναι κακίας, τὰ δ’ οὔ. Ἀφροσύνην μὲν οὖν καὶ ἀδικίαν καὶ δειλίαν καὶ μικροψυχίαν καὶ ἀδυναμίαν κακίας εἶναι· λύπην δὲ καὶ φόβον καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια οὐκ εἶναι κακίας. Τῶν δὲ κακιῶν τὰς μὲν εἶναι ἀγνοίας τινῶν καὶ ἀτεχνίας, τὰς δ’ οὔ. Ἀφροσύνην μὲν οὖν καὶ ἀκολασίαν καὶ ἀδικίαν καὶ δειλίαν ἀγνοίας εἶναι τινῶν καὶ ἀτεχνίας· μικροψυχίαν δὲ καὶ ἀδυναμίαν ⟨καὶ ἀσθένειαν⟩ οὔτε ἀγνοίας τινῶν οὔτε ἀτεχνίας.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 183Zeno on Vices and Other Evils
Correspondingly, of evils some are vices and some are not. Folly, injustice, cowardice, smallness of soul, and incapacity are vices; distress, fear, and similar things are not vices.204 Of vices, some are forms of ignorance of certain things and lack of art, and some are not. Folly, intemperance, injustice, and cowardice are forms of ignorance of certain things and lack of art. Smallness of soul, incapacity, ⟨and weakness⟩, however, are neither forms of ignorance of certain things nor lack of art.205
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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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