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.7.11e.2–II.7.11e.3

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Τὰ οὐδέτερα ἐνεργήματα

II.7.11e.2

οὔτε δὲ κατορθώματα οὔτε ἁμαρτήματα τὰ τοιαῦτα· λέγειν, ἐρωτᾶν, ἀποκρίνεσθαι, περιπατεῖν, ἀποδημεῖν καὶ τὰ τούτοις παραπλήσια.

Αἱ προσηγορίαι τῶν κατορθωμάτων

II.7.11e.3

Πάντα δὲ τὰ κατορθώματα δικαιοπραγήματα εἶναι καὶ εὐνομήματα καὶ εὐτακτήματα καὶ εὐεπιτηδεύματα καὶ εὐτυχήματα καὶ εὐδαιμονήματα καὶ εὐκαιρήματα καὶ εὐσχημονήματα· οὐκ ἔτι μέντοι γε φρονιμεύματα, ἀλλὰ μόνα τὰ ἀπὸ φρονήσεως καὶ ὁμοίως ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀρετῶν, εἰ καὶ μὴ ὠνόμασται, οἷον σωφρονήματα μὲν τὰ ἀπὸ σωφροσύνης, δικαιώματα δὲ τὰ ἀπὸ δικαιοσύνης. Τὰ δὲ ἁμαρτήματα ἐκ τῶν ἀντικειμένων ἀδικοπραγήματα καὶ ἀνομήματα καὶ ἀτακτήματα.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Activities of Neither Kind

II.7.11e.2

Activities such as speaking, asking questions, answering, walking, traveling abroad, and similar things are neither correct actions nor errors.⁴⁰⁵

Names Applied to Correct Actions

II.7.11e.3

All correct actions are just actions, lawful actions, orderly actions, good pursuits, successful actions, acts of living happily, timely actions, and seemly actions.⁴⁰⁶ They are not, however, all acts of practical wisdom: only those proceeding from practical wisdom are such. The same applies to the other virtues, even if they have not been named—for example acts of temperance proceed from temperance, and acts of justice from justice. Errors, by the opposite descriptions, are unjust actions, unlawful actions, and disorderly actions.⁴⁰⁷

405.These name activities without specifying their virtuous or vicious manner. “Walking” here differs from “walking wisely” in the preceding list. The classification does not make every instance of speech or travel morally beyond assessment, regardless of how it is performed.

406.The series gives several general names for every correct action. “Successful actions” renders εὐτυχήματα in this ethical series; it should not be read as a promise of material good fortune. Εὐδαιμονήματα concerns living happily. The terms name acts, rather than changing the earlier distinction between an activity and the virtue one possesses.

407.The source then restricts φρονιμεύματα to acts proceeding from practical wisdom and applies an analogous restriction to the other virtues. It thus distinguishes the general δικαιοπραγήματα, “just actions,” from δικαιώματα as acts proceeding from justice in this particular terminology. Both claims are retained, despite their apparent tension in ordinary English.

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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