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.7.5c.1–II.7.5c.2

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p. 216

Ἀγαθὰ ἀεὶ καὶ μὴ ἀεὶ ὑπάρχοντα

II.7.5c.1

Ἔτι δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τὰ μὲν πᾶσι τοῖς φρονίμοις ὑπάρχειν καὶ αἰεί, τὰ δὲ οὔ. Ἀρετὴν μὲν πᾶσαν καὶ φρονίμην αἴσθησιν καὶ φρονίμην ὁρμὴν καὶ τὰ ὅμοια πᾶσι τοῖς φρονίμοις ὑπάρχειν καὶ ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ· χαρὰν δὲ καὶ εὐφροσύνην καὶ φρονίμην περιπάτησιν οὔτε πᾶσι τοῖς φρονίμοις ὑπάρχειν οὔτε αἰεί.

Κακὰ ἀεὶ καὶ μὴ ἀεὶ ὑπάρχοντα

II.7.5c.2

Ἀνάλογον δὲ καὶ τῶν κακῶν τὰ μὲν πᾶσι τοῖς ἄφροσιν ὑπάρχειν καὶ αἰεί, τὰ δ’ οὔ. Κακίαν μὲν οὖν πᾶσαν καὶ ἄφρονα αἴσθησιν καὶ ἄφρονα ὁρμὴν καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια πᾶσι τοῖς ἄφροσιν ὑπάρχειν ⟨καὶ⟩ αἰεί· λύπην δὲ καὶ φόβον καὶ ἄφρονα ἀπόκρισιν οὔτε πᾶσι τοῖς ἄφροσιν ὑπάρχειν οὔτ’ ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 217

Goods That Are Always Present and Those That Are Not

II.7.5c.1

Again, of goods, some belong to all wise people and always, while others do not. Every virtue, wise perception, wise impulse, and similar things belong to all wise people and at every time.²⁵³ Joy, gladness, and wise walking, however, belong neither to all wise people nor always.²⁵⁴

Evils That Are Always Present and Those That Are Not

II.7.5c.2

Correspondingly, of evils, some belong to all foolish people and always, while others do not. Every vice, foolish perception, foolish impulse, and similar things belong to all foolish people ⟨and⟩ always. Distress, fear, and a foolish reply, however, belong neither to all foolish people nor at every time.²⁵⁵

253.The distinction concerns whether a good belongs to every wise person at every time. “Wise perception” and “wise impulse” preserve the source’s repeated φρόνιμος, rather than reducing the examples to virtue alone. Compare the shorter parallel classification in Diogenes Laertius VII.98.

254.“Wise walking” renders φρονίμη περιπάτησις, a particular activity qualified by wisdom. It is not an assertion that ordinary walking is itself a moral good, nor a reference to membership in the Peripatetic school. The two qualifications, “all” and “always,” are retained separately.

255.The evil series mirrors the good series but gives “a foolish reply,” ἄφρων ἀπόκρισις, as its example of a particular activity. The English does not substitute foolish walking to make the lists symmetrical. Λύπη here is distress, alongside fear. The supplied conjunction before “always” remains bracketed.

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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