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.7.10c.1–II.7.10c.2

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p. 288

Ὀργὴ καὶ τὰ εἴδη αὐτῆς

II.7.10c.1

Ὀργὴ μὲν οὖν ἐστιν ἐπιθυμία τιμωρήσασθαι τὸν δοκοῦντα ἠδικηκέναι παρὰ τὸ προσῆκον· θυμὸς δὲ ὀργὴ ἐναρχομένη· χόλος δὲ ὀργὴ διοιδοῦσα· μῆνις δὲ ὀργὴ εἰς παλαίωσιν ἀποτεθειμένη ἢ ἐναποκειμένη· κότος δὲ ὀργὴ ἐπιτηροῦσα καιρὸν εἰς τιμωρίαν· πικρία δὲ ὀργὴ παραχρῆμα ἐκρηγνυμένη·

Ἔρως καὶ αἱ συγγενεῖς ἐπιθυμίαι

II.7.10c.2

ἔρως δὲ ἐπιβολὴ φιλοποιίας διὰ κάλλος ἐμφαινόμενον· πόθος δὲ ἐπιθυμία κατ’ ἔρωτα ἀπόντος· ἵμερος δὲ ἐπιθυμία φίλου ἀπόντος ὁμιλίας· φιληδονία δὲ ἐπιθυμία ἡδονῶν· φιλοπλουτία δὲ πλούτου· φιλοδοξία δὲ δόξης.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 289

Anger and Its Species

II.7.10c.1

Anger, then, is a craving to punish someone thought to have done an injury contrary to what is fitting. Wrath is anger beginning; rage is anger swelling; rancor is anger laid aside to grow old, or stored within; a grudge is anger watching for an opportunity for revenge; bitterness is anger erupting immediately.³⁶⁹

Love and Related Cravings

II.7.10c.2

Love is an initiative toward forming friendship because of manifest beauty.³⁷⁰ Longing is a craving for someone absent, in the context of love; yearning is a craving for the company of an absent friend. Love of pleasure is a craving for pleasures; love of wealth, for wealth; love of reputation, for reputation.³⁷¹

369.These definitions distinguish the onset, swelling, persistence, timing, and eruption of anger. “Wrath” renders θυμός, “rage” χόλος, “rancor” μῆνις, “grudge” κότος, and “bitterness” πικρία. The apparent injury is qualified by “thought,” δοκοῦντα; the definition does not establish that the person truly committed it. Both descriptions joined by ἤ in the definition of μῆνις are retained.

370.Ἐπιβολή retains “initiative,” used in the preceding account of impulse. Compare II.7.5b9.3, where love is expressly said not to be appetite, and the very similar friendship-and-beauty formula occurs. Here love appears within the discussion of craving after the list of “intense loves.” The wording and its tension with the earlier account are preserved without inserting a distinction the present definition does not explicitly make.

371.Πόθος and ἵμερος receive separate definitions: the former relates absence to love, the latter specifies the company of an absent friend. Δόξα in φιλοδοξία means reputation, not the “opinion” involved in the definitions of the primary passions.

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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