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.7.10b.2–II.7.10b.4

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Φόβος καὶ δόξα κακοῦ

II.7.10b.2

Φόβον δ’ εἶναι ἔκκλισιν ἀπειθῆ λόγῳ, αἴτιον δ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ δοξάζειν κακὸν ἐπιφέρεσθαι, τῆς δόξης τὸ κινητικὸν [καὶ] πρόσφατον ἐχούσης τοῦ ὄντως αὐτὸ φευκτὸν εἶναι.

Λύπη καὶ ἡδονή

II.7.10b.3

Λύπην δ’ εἶναι συστολὴν ψυχῆς ἀπειθῆ λόγῳ, αἴτιον δ’ αὐτῆς τὸ δοξάζειν πρόσφατον κακὸν παρεῖναι, ἐφ’ ᾧ καθήκει ⟨συστέλλεσθαι. Ἡδονὴν δ’ εἶναι ἔπαρσιν ψυχῆς ἀπειθῆ λόγῳ, αἴτιον δ’ αὐτῆς τὸ δοξάζειν πρόσφατον ἀγαθὸν παρεῖναι, ἐφ’ ᾧ καθήκει⟩ ἐπαίρεσθαι.

Τὰ ὑπὸ τὰ τέσσαρα πάθη

II.7.10b.4

Ὑπὸ μὲν οὖν τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ὑπάγεται τὰ τοιαῦτα· ὀργὴ καὶ τὰ εἴδη αὐτῆς, (θυμὸς καὶ χόλος καὶ μῆνις καὶ κότος καὶ πικρία καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα,) ἔρωτες σφοδροὶ καὶ πόθοι καὶ ἵμεροι καὶ φιληδονίαι καὶ φιλοπλουτίαι καὶ φιλοδοξίαι καὶ τὰ ὅμοια· ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν ἡδονὴν ἐπιχαιρεκακίαι καὶ ἀσμενισμοὶ καὶ γοητεῖαι καὶ τὰ ὅμοια· ὑπὸ δὲ τὸν φόβον ὄκνοι καὶ ἀγωνίαι καὶ ἐκπλήξεις καὶ αἰσχύναι καὶ θόρυβοι καὶ δεισιδαιμονίαι καὶ δέος καὶ δείματα· ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν λύπην φθόνος, ζῆλος, ζηλοτυπία, ἔλεος, πένθος, ἄχθος, ἄχος, ἀνία, ὀδύνη, ἄση.

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Fear and the Opinion of an Evil

II.7.10b.2

Fear is aversion disobedient to reason. Its cause is the opinion that an evil is approaching, the opinion possessing the stimulating freshness of the belief that it really is to be avoided.³⁶⁶

Distress and Pleasure

II.7.10b.3

Distress is a contraction of the soul disobedient to reason. Its cause is the fresh opinion that an evil is present, at which it is appropriate ⟨to contract. Pleasure is an uplift of the soul disobedient to reason. Its cause is the fresh opinion that a good is present, at which it is appropriate⟩ to be uplifted.³⁶⁷

Forms under the Four Passions

II.7.10b.4

Under craving, then, fall such things as anger and its species (wrath, rage, rancor, grudge, bitterness, and the like), intense loves, longings, yearnings, loves of pleasure, wealth, and reputation, and similar things. Under pleasure fall malicious joys, delights, enchantments, and the like. Under fear fall hesitations, anxieties, consternations, shames, alarms, superstitions, dread, and frights. Under distress fall envy, rivalry, jealousy, pity, mourning, heaviness, anguish, vexation, pain, and disquiet.³⁶⁸

366.Ἔκκλισις retains “aversion,” as at II.7.9.2. The parallel with craving concerns the supposed value of an approaching object and the opinion’s power to move us. Wachsmuth brackets καί, “and,” as rejected wording between “stimulating” and “fresh”; it remains visible in Greek and is omitted in English.

367.Wachsmuth’s supplement begins with the end of the distress definition and includes almost the whole pleasure definition; the English retains that single span across the sentence boundary. “Fresh” follows the functional explanation at II.7.10.3. The judgment that contraction or uplift is appropriate belongs within the opinion causing the passion, not to the narrator’s endorsement of it.

368.The English names are kept distinct to allow comparison with the definitions that immediately follow. Familiar English synonyms do not by themselves reproduce these technical differences. “Intense” qualifies loves in this list. The Greek mostly uses plurals for the forms under craving, pleasure, and fear, then singulars for those under distress; the English preserves that change.

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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