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Book II Chapter 4 · II.4.17.2
Ancient Greek
p. 92Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Σοφιστοῦ · συνέχεια
— Εἰπὲ ἑκάτερον.
— Τὸ μὲν ἐπὶ ταῖς πράξεσιν ὂν δήλωμα, ῥῆμά που λεγόμενον.
— Ναί.
— Τὸ δέ γε ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς τοῖς ἐκείνας πράττουσι σημεῖον τῆς φωνῆς ἐπιτιθὲν ὄνομα.
— Κομιδῇ μὲν οὖν.
— Οὐκοῦν ἐξ ὀνομάτων μὲν μόνων συνεχῶς λεγομένων οὐκ ἔστι ποτέ λόγος, οὐδ’ αὖ ῥημάτων χωρὶς ὀνομάτων λεχθέντων.
— Ταῦτ’ οὐκ ἔμαθον.
— Δῆλον γὰρ ὡς πρὸς ἕτερόν τι βλέπων ἄρτι ξυνωμολόγεις· ἐπεὶ τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ ἐβουλόμην εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ξυνεχῶς ὧδε λεγόμενα ταῦτ’ οὐκ ἔστι λόγος.
— Πῶς;
— Οἷον, βαδίζει, τρέχει, καθεύδει, καὶ τἄλλα ὅσα πράξεις σημαίνει ῥήματα, κἂν πάντα τις ἐφεξῆς αὐτὰ εἴπῃ, λόγον οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ἀπεργάζεται.
— Πῶς γάρ;
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 4
p. 93Plato from the Sophist · 2
“Explain each.”
“The indication applied to actions is, I take it, called a verb.”
“Yes.”
“And the vocal sign applied to those who perform the actions is a name.”
“Quite so.”
“Then names alone, spoken in sequence, never make a statement; nor do verbs spoken without names.”
“I did not understand that.”
“Clearly you were looking at something else when you agreed just now. For this was precisely what I meant: these things spoken in sequence in this way are not a statement.”
“How?”
“For example, ‘walks,’ ‘runs,’ ‘sleeps,’ and all the other verbs that signify actions—even if someone says them all in succession, he still produces no statement.”
“How could he?”116
Socrates
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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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