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.7.5m–II.7.5n

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Ancient Greek

p. 234

Ἄμικτα καὶ μεμιγμένα ἀγαθά

II.7.5m

Ἔτι δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τὰ μὲν εἶναι ἄμικτα, οἷον ἐπιστήμην, τὰ δὲ μεμιγμένα, οἷον εὐτεκνίαν, εὐγηρίαν, εὐζωίαν. Ἔστι δ’ ἡ μὲν εὐτεκνία κτῆσις τέκνων κατὰ φύσιν ἔχουσα σπουδαία, ἡ δὲ εὐγηρία χρῆσις σπουδαία γήρους κατὰ φύσιν ἔχουσα, καὶ ὁμοίως ἡ εὐζωία.

Αἱ ἀνάλογοι διαιρέσεις τῶν κακῶν

II.7.5n

Φανερὸν δὲ αἰεὶ ἐπὶ τούτων, ὅτι καὶ τῶν κακῶν αἱ ὅμοιαι διαιρέσεις ἔσονται.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 235

Unmixed and Mixed Goods

II.7.5m

Again, of goods, some are unmixed, such as knowledge, and some mixed, such as flourishing in one’s children, a good old age, and a good life.²⁸² Flourishing in one’s children is a worthy possession of children in accordance with nature; a good old age is a worthy use of old age in accordance with nature; and a good life is similar.²⁸³

The Corresponding Divisions of Evils

II.7.5n

In these cases it is always clear that evils too will have the corresponding divisions.²⁸⁴

282.“Mixed” and “unmixed” retain μεμιγμένα and ἄμικτα. The following definitions combine having children or old age with worthy possession or use. The translation does not silently turn the examples into the bare possession of numerous children, longevity, or prosperity.

283.Wachsmuth prints κτῆσις, “possession,” in the children definition and χρῆσις, “use,” in the old-age definition; the distinction is preserved. The final “similar” leaves the good-life definition compressed, as in the Greek, rather than supplying a full sentence not printed in the source.

284.This brief sentence extends the preceding classifications to evils without spelling out another set of examples. The English follows Wachsmuth’s printed wording and does not manufacture the omitted lists.

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.