Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.10c.5–II.7.10c.6

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Φθόνος, ζῆλος, ζηλοτυπία

II.7.10c.5

Φθόνος δὲ λύπη ἐπ’ ἀλλοτρίοις ἀγαθοῖς· ζῆλος δὲ λύπη ἐπὶ τῷ ἕτερον ἐπιτυγχάνειν ὧν αὐτὸς ἐπιθυμεῖ, αὐτὸν δὲ μή· λέγεσθαι δὲ καὶ ἑτέρως ζῆλον, μακαρισμὸν ἐνδεοῦς καὶ ἔτι ἄλλως μίμησιν ὡς ἂν κρείττονος· ζηλοτυπίαν δὲ λύπην ἐπὶ τῷ ⟨καὶ⟩ ἕτερον ἐπιτυγχάνειν ὧν αὐτὸς ἐπεθύμει·

Ἔλεος καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ λῦπαι

II.7.10c.6

ἔλεον δὲ λύπην ἐπὶ τῷ δοκοῦντι ἀναξίως κακοπαθεῖν· πένθος δὲ λύπην ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἀώρῳ· ἄχθος δὲ λύπην βαρύνουσαν· ἄχος δὲ λύπην ἀφωνίαν ἐμποιοῦσαν· ἀνίαν δὲ λύπην κατὰ διαλογισμόν· ὀδύνην δὲ λύπην εἰσδύνουσαν καὶ καθικνουμένην· ἄσην δὲ λύπην μετὰ ῥιπτασμοῦ.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Envy, Rivalry, and Jealousy

II.7.10c.5

Envy is distress at the goods of others; rivalry is distress at another’s attaining what one craves while one does not. “Rivalry” is also used in another sense for the admiration felt by someone in want, and in yet another for imitation of someone regarded as superior.³⁷⁴ Jealousy is distress at another’s ⟨also⟩ attaining what one oneself desired.³⁷⁵

Pity and the Remaining Forms of Distress

II.7.10c.6

Pity is distress at someone who seems to suffer undeservedly; mourning is distress at an untimely death; heaviness is distress that weighs one down; anguish is distress that produces speechlessness; vexation is distress in reflection; pain is distress that penetrates and reaches deep; disquiet is distress accompanied by restless tossing.³⁷⁶

374.Ζῆλος can name both the distress defined first and other forms of admiration or emulation. The compressed μακαρισμὸν ἐνδεοῦς is understood here as pronouncing someone fortunate on the part of a person who lacks; “felt by someone in want” expresses that reading of the genitive. In the final alternative, ὡς ἂν κρείττονος presents the imitated person as superior.

375.The distinctions turn on another’s goods, another’s success without one’s own, and another’s also attaining the desired object. The supplied καί, ⟨also⟩, makes the last contrast explicit. The Greek changes from present ἐπιθυμεῖ in the rivalry definition to past ἐπεθύμει in the jealousy definition; the English follows it.

376.The definition of mourning specifies an untimely death, ἀώρῳ, rather than death without qualification. Ἄχθος and ἄχος are distinct despite their similar spelling: the first weighs down, the second produces speechlessness. Κατὰ διαλογισμόν connects vexation with reflection or reckoning. The final definitions describe how distress is felt and moves the sufferer, not further external objects of distress.

About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.