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.7.7c–II.7.7d

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Ancient Greek

p. 260

Τὰ ὁρμῆς καὶ ἀφορμῆς κινητικά

II.7.7c

Ἔτι δὲ τῶν ἀδιαφόρων φασὶ τὰ μὲν εἶναι ὁρμῆς κινητικά, τὰ δὲ ἀφορμῆς, τὰ δὲ οὔτε ὁρμῆς οὔτε ἀφορμῆς. Ὁρμῆς μὲν οὖν κινητικά, ἅπερ ἐλέγομεν εἶναι κατὰ φύσιν· ἀφορμῆς δὲ ὅσα παρὰ φύσιν· οὔτε δὲ ὁρμῆς οὔτε ἀφορμῆς τὰ μηδετέρως ἔχοντα, οἷά ἐστι τὸ περιττὰς ἢ ἀρτίας ἔχειν τὰς τρίχας.

Πρῶτα κατὰ φύσιν καὶ κατὰ μετοχήν

II.7.7d

Τῶν δὲ κατὰ φύσιν ἀδιαφόρων ὄντων τὰ μέν ἐστι πρῶτα κατὰ φύσιν, τὰ δὲ κατὰ μετοχήν. Πρῶτα μέν ἐστι κατὰ φύσιν κίνησις ἢ σχέσις κατὰ τοὺς σπερματικοὺς λόγους γινομένη, οἷον ⟨ἀρτιότης καὶ⟩ ὑγίεια καὶ αἴσθησις (λέγω δὲ τὴν κατάληψιν) καὶ ἰσχύς. Κατὰ μετοχὴν δέ, ὅσα μετέχει κινήσεως καὶ σχέσεως κατὰ τοὺς σπερματικοὺς λόγους, οἷον χεὶρ ἀρτία καὶ σῶμα ὑγιεινὸν καὶ αἰσθήσεις μὴ πεπηρωμέναι. Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῶν παρὰ φύσιν κατὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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What Stimulates Impulse and Aversion

II.7.7c

Further, they say that some indifferent things stimulate impulse, others aversion, and others neither impulse nor aversion. What stimulates impulse is precisely what we said was in accordance with nature; what stimulates aversion is what is contrary to nature. What stimulates neither impulse nor aversion is what is neither, such as having an odd or an even number of hairs.³²⁴

Primarily Natural and Natural by Participation

II.7.7d

Of indifferent things that are in accordance with nature, some are primarily in accordance with nature and others by participation. Primarily in accordance with nature is an activity or condition arising in accordance with the seminal principles, such as ⟨soundness and⟩ health, perception (I mean apprehension), and strength.³²⁵ In accordance with nature by participation are things that participate in activity and condition in accordance with the seminal principles, such as a sound hand, a healthy body, and unimpaired senses. The same holds by analogy for things contrary to nature.³²⁶

324.This restates the threefold distinction in terms of impulse and aversion. The hair example returns to the second sense of “indifferent” at II.7.7.2, where it was supplied by the editor; here it occurs in the unbracketed printed text. The order is now odd or even, as in the Greek.

325.Σπερματικοὶ λόγοι are the seminal principles already mentioned at II.7.3c: formative rational principles, not spoken arguments. Κίνησις and σχέσις retain “activity” and “condition,” as at II.7.5k. The parenthesis “I mean apprehension” belongs to the source and specifies its use of αἴσθησις; it is not an intervention by the translator. The supplied “soundness and” remains bracketed.

326.The distinction is illustrated by health and a healthy body, or soundness and a sound hand: the latter possess or participate in the former. The printed ὑγιεινόν is retained in the Greek. The closing analogy is not expanded into an invented list of contrary conditions.

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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