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.7.25.11–II.7.25.12

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Χρηστότης καὶ εὐκοινωνησία

II.7.25.11

χρηστότητα δὲ ἕξιν ἑκουσίως εὖ ποιητικὴν ἀνθρώπων, αὐτῶν ἐκείνων χάριν, μεταξὺ πονηρίας οὖσαν καὶ ἀνωνύμου· εὐκοινωνησίαν δὲ ἕξιν ἀμέμπτους ἐν κοινωνίᾳ παρεχομένην, μεταξὺ ἀκοινωνησίας οὖσαν καὶ ἀνωνύμου·

Εὐσυναλλαξία

II.7.25.12

εὐσυναλλαξίαν δὲ ἕξιν εὐλαβητικὴν τῆς ἐν τοῖς συμβολαίοις ἀδικίας, μεταξὺ ἀσυναλλαξίας οὖσαν καὶ ἀνωνύμου, (τὴν δὲ ἀνώνυμον κατὰ τὸ ἀκριβοδίκαιον εἶναί πως)·

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Kindness and Good Fellowship

II.7.25.11

Kindness is a state of voluntarily benefiting people for those people’s own sake, lying between wickedness and an unnamed state.⁷¹⁸ Good fellowship is a state that renders people blameless in association, lying between unsociability and an unnamed state.⁷¹⁹

Fair Dealing

II.7.25.12

Fair dealing is a state that guards against injustice in contracts, lying between bad dealing and an unnamed state.⁷²⁰ (The unnamed state is, in a way, strict justice.)⁷²¹

718.The definition of χρηστότης includes both willingness, ἑκουσίως, and the beneficiaries’ own sake, αὐτῶν ἐκείνων χάριν. These motives are not replaced with an unstated aim of reputation or repayment. One extreme, πονηρία, wickedness, is named; the other is not.

719.Εὐκοινωνησία concerns good fellowship or participation in common life. The plural ἀμέμπτους supplies people as the implicit object, while ἐν κοινωνίᾳ specifies the sphere of association. The Greek retains ἀκοινωνησία, unsociability, and leaves the opposite extreme unnamed. The compressed printed construction is followed without replacing it with an apparatus conjecture.

720.Εὐσυναλλαξία concerns fair conduct in dealings, with συμβόλαια specifying contracts or agreements. Εὐλαβητική means careful to avoid or guard against something, here injustice. Ἀσυναλλαξία is rendered bad dealing; it can suggest an inability or unwillingness to deal properly.

721.The parenthesis identifies the otherwise unnamed extreme only approximately: πως, in a way. Τὸ ἀκριβοδίκαιον is strict or exact justice; in this contrast it suggests an excessively rigorous insistence on what is just. Both the unusual description and its qualification remain, rather than assigning the extreme a new formal name.

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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