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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.7.3–II.7.7a.1
Ancient Greek
p. 252Ἐκλογὴ καὶ ἀπεκλογή
Κατὰ τὸ πρότερον δὴ λεκτέον τὰ μεταξὺ ἀρετῆς καὶ κακίας ἀδιάφορα λέγεσθαι κατὰ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς αἱρέσεως ταύτης, οὐ μὴν πρὸς ἐκλογὴν καὶ ἀπεκλογήν· δι’ ὃ καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀξίαν ἐκλεκτικὴν ἔχειν, τὰ δ’ ἀπαξίαν ἀπεκλεκτικήν, συμβλητικὴν δ’ οὐδαμῶς πρὸς τὸν εὐδαίμονα βίον.
Κατὰ φύσιν καὶ παρὰ φύσιν
Καὶ τὰ μὲν εἶναι κατὰ φύσιν, τὰ δὲ παρὰ φύσιν, τὰ δὲ οὔτε παρὰ φύσιν οὔτε κατὰ φύσιν. Κατὰ φύσιν μὲν οὖν τὰ τοιαῦτα· ὑγίειαν, ἰσχύν, αἰσθητηρίων ἀρτιότητα, καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις· παρὰ φύσιν δὲ τὰ τοιαῦτα· νόσον, ἀσθένειαν, πήρωσιν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα· οὔτε δὲ παρὰ φύσιν οὔτε κατὰ φύσιν· ψυχῆς κατάστασιν καὶ σώματος, καθ’ ἣν ἡ μέν ἐστι φαντασιῶν ψευδῶν δεκτική, τὸ δὲ τραυμάτων καὶ πηρώσεων δεκτικόν, καὶ τὰ τούτοις ὅμοια.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 253Selection and Rejection
It must therefore be said that, according to those of this school, things between virtue and vice are called indifferent in the former sense, but not with regard to selection and rejection. Hence some have value for selection and others disvalue for rejection, but no value that contributes to the happy life.312
In Accordance with and Contrary to Nature
Some are in accordance with nature, others contrary to nature, and others neither contrary to nor in accordance with nature. In accordance with nature are such things as health, strength, soundness of the sense organs, and things like these. Contrary to nature are such things as disease, weakness, impairment, and the like. Neither contrary to nor in accordance with nature is the condition of soul and body in which the soul is receptive to false impressions and the body susceptible to wounds and impairments, and things like these.313
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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.
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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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