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.7.10e.2

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Νοσήματα καὶ ἀρρωστήματα

II.7.10e.2

Νόσημα δ’ εἶναι δόξαν ἐπιθυμίας ἐρρηγυῖαν εἰς ἕξιν καὶ ἐνεσκιρωμένην, καθ’ ἣν ὑπολαμβάνουσι τὰ μὴ αἱρετὰ σφόδρα αἱρετὰ εἶναι, οἷον φιλογυνίαν, φιλοινίαν, φιλαργυρίαν· εἶναι δέ τινα καὶ ἐναντία ⟨τούτοις⟩ τοῖς νοσήμασι κατὰ προσκοπὴν γινόμενα, οἷον μισογυνίαν, μισοινίαν, μισανθρωπίαν. Τὰ δὲ νοσήματα μετ’ ἀσθενείας συμβαίνοντα ἀρρωστήματα καλεῖσθαι.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 297

Diseases and Infirmities

II.7.10e.2

A disease is an opinion associated with craving that has developed into a settled state and become hardened, in accordance with which people suppose that things not choiceworthy are exceedingly choiceworthy—for example love of women, love of wine, and love of money.³⁸⁰ There are also conditions opposite to ⟨these⟩ diseases, arising through aversion, such as hatred of women, hatred of wine, and hatred of humanity.³⁸¹ Diseases occurring together with weakness are called infirmities.³⁸²

380.The account distinguishes a susceptibility, a passion, and an opinion hardened into a settled state, ἕξις. “Disease” translates its ethical and psychological term νόσημα, not a modern diagnostic category. The defining error is to suppose something not choiceworthy to be exceedingly choiceworthy; the examples are governed by that qualification.

381.The supplied τούτοις remains bracketed as ⟨these⟩. Προσκοπή denotes aversion or repugnance here. The opposite hatreds are included in the account, rather than offered as remedies for the corresponding loves.

382.Ἀρρώστημα retains “infirmity,” as at II.7.6d. The final distinction adds weakness to disease. Compare Diogenes Laertius VII.115, which also distinguishes diseases, infirmities, and tendencies to passions.

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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