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.7.5l.3–II.7.5l.4

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Φιλία καὶ συμφωνία

II.7.5l.3

Φιλίαν δ’ εἶναι κοινωνίαν βίου· συμφωνίαν δὲ ὁμοδογματίαν περὶ τῶν κατὰ τὸν βίον. Τῆς δὲ φιλίας εἶναι γνωριμότητα μὲν φιλίαν ἐγνωσμένων· συνήθειαν δὲ φιλίαν συνειθισμένων· ἑταιρείαν δὲ φιλίαν καθ’ αἵρεσιν, ὡς ἂν ὁμηλίκων· ξενίαν δὲ φιλίαν ἀλλοδαπῶν. Εἶναι δὲ καὶ συγγενικήν τινα φιλίαν ἐκ συγγενῶν· καὶ ἐρωτικὴν ἐξ ἔρωτος.

Ἀρετῶν ὀνόματα πρός τι

II.7.5l.4

Ἀλυπίαν δὲ καὶ εὐταξίαν τὰς αὐτὰς εἶναι τῇ σωφροσύνῃ, νοῦν δὲ καὶ φρένας φρονήσει, μεταδοτικὴν δὲ καὶ ἐπιδοτικὴν χρηστότητι· τῷ μέντοι γε πρός τί πως ἔχειν ὠνομάσθησαν· ὅπερ καθήκει καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀρετῶν παρατηρεῖν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Friendship and Concord

II.7.5l.3

Friendship is a sharing of life; concord is agreement in beliefs about the affairs of life.²⁷⁹ Among forms of friendship, acquaintance is friendship between people known to one another; familiarity, friendship between people accustomed to one another; companionship, friendship by choice, as between people of the same age; and guest-friendship, friendship between people of different lands. There is also a kind of kinship friendship arising from kin, and erotic friendship arising from love.²⁸⁰

Names of Virtues in Relation

II.7.5l.4

Freedom from distress and good order are the same as temperance; intellect and understanding, the same as practical wisdom; readiness to share and readiness to give, the same as kindness. They have received these names, however, because they stand in a certain relation to something. This should also be observed in the case of the other virtues.²⁸¹

279.Κοινωνία βίου is a sharing of life, while ὁμοδογματία specifies agreement in beliefs or judgments. The definition of concord therefore concerns agreement about life, rather than musical harmony. Its presence here explains Wachsmuth’s supplied συμφωνία in the preceding list.

280.The terms distinguish relationships by acquaintance, habitual association, choice, foreign origin, kinship, and erotic love. Ξενία carries the sense of guest-friendship between people from different lands. The same-age example qualifies companionship; it is not added as a requirement for every form of friendship.

281.The Greek predicates sameness while explaining the different names through relation. “Freedom from distress” renders ἀλυπία, and “readiness to share” and “readiness to give” render the substantivized adjectives μεταδοτική and ἐπιδοτική. Wachsmuth relocates this paragraph from after II.7.5m to the discussion of relations; that placement is followed here.

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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