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.7.10d–II.7.10e.1

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Ancient Greek

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Τὸ ἐφ’ ᾧ καὶ ἡ ἰδιότης τῆς κινήσεως

II.7.10d

Τούτων δὲ τῶν παθῶν τὰ μὲν ἐμφαίνει τὸ ἐφ’ ᾧ γίνεται, οἷον ἔλεον, φθόνον, ἐπιχαιρεκακίαν, αἰσχύνην· τὰ δὲ τὴν ἰδιότητα τῆς κινήσεως, οἷον ὀδύνην, δεῖμα.

Εὐεμπτωσία εἰς πάθος

II.7.10e.1

Εὐεμπτωσίαν δ’ εἶναι εὐκαταφορίαν εἰς πάθος, ὥς τι τῶν παρὰ φύσιν ἔργων, οἷον ἐπιλυπίαν, ὀργιλότητα, φθονερίαν, ἀκροχολίαν καὶ τὰ ὅμοια. Γίνεσθαι δὲ εὐεμπτωσίας καὶ εἰς ἄλλα ἔργα τῶν παρὰ φύσιν, οἷον εἰς κλοπὰς καὶ μοιχείας καὶ ὕβρεις, καθ’ ἃς κλέπται τε καὶ μοιχοὶ καὶ ὑβρισταὶ λέγονται.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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The Object and the Character of the Movement

II.7.10d

Of these passions, some indicate what they arise in response to, such as pity, envy, malicious joy, and shame; others indicate the distinctive character of the movement, such as pain and fright.³⁷⁷

Susceptibility to Passion

II.7.10e.1

Susceptibility is a ready tendency to fall into a passion, as one of the activities contrary to nature—for example proneness to distress, irascibility, enviousness, quick temper, and the like.³⁷⁸ There are also susceptibilities to other activities contrary to nature, such as thefts, adulteries, and acts of outrage; in accordance with these people are called thieves, adulterers, and perpetrators of outrage.³⁷⁹

377.This comments on what the names disclose. Some identify an object or occasion, such as another’s undeserved suffering or one’s ill repute; others characterize the movement of the soul. Both examples in the second group, ὀδύνη and δεῖμα, are retained even though the preceding short definition of δεῖμα refers to a report.

378.Εὐεμπτωσία concerns readiness to fall into a passion, rather than the occurrence of a particular passion itself. The examples name tendencies: ἐπιλυπία, ὀργιλότης, φθονερία, and ἀκροχολία. The phrase ὥς τι τῶν παρὰ φύσιν ἔργων places passion among activities contrary to nature.

379.The account extends susceptibility beyond the named passions to habitual kinds of wrongdoing. Ὕβρις is rendered “outrage” here, covering abusive or insulting conduct; the English avoids reducing it to the inward feeling of pride.

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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