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.7.11k.10–II.7.11l.1

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p. 346

Ἔχθρα πρὸς τοὺς θεούς

II.7.11k.10

Ἔτι δ’ ἀρέσκει αὐτοῖς καὶ πάντ’ εἶναι τὸν ἄφρονα θεοῖς ἐχθρόν· τὴν γὰρ ἔχθραν ἀσυμφωνίαν εἶναι ⟨περὶ⟩ τῶν κατὰ τὸν βίον καὶ διχόνοιαν, ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν φιλίαν συμφωνίαν καὶ ὁμόνοιαν. Διαφωνοῦσι δ’ οἱ φαῦλοι πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς περὶ τῶν κατὰ τὸν βίον, διόπερ πᾶς ἄφρων θεοῖς ἐχθρός ἐστιν. Ἔτι εἰ πάντες τοὺς ἐναντίους αὐτοῖς ἐχθροὺς εἶναι νομίζουσι, τῷ δὲ σπουδαίῳ ὁ φαῦλός ἐστιν ἐναντίος καὶ σπουδαῖός ἐστιν ὁ θεός, ὁ φαῦλος θεοῖς ἐστιν ἐχθρός.

Ἴσα ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὅμοια ἁμαρτήματα

II.7.11l.1

Ἴσα τε πάντα λέγουσιν εἶναι τὰ ἁμαρτήματα, οὐκέτι δ’ ὅμοια. Καθάπερ γὰρ ἀπὸ μιᾶς τινος πηγῆς τῆς κακίας φέρεσθαι πέφυκε, τῆς κρίσεως οὔσης ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασι τῆς αὐτῆς· παρὰ δὲ τὴν ἔξωθεν αἰτίαν, τῶν ἐφ’ οἷς αἱ κρίσεις ἀποτελοῦνται μέσων διαλλαττόντων, διάφορα κατὰ ποιότητα γίνεσθαι τὰ ἁμαρτήματα.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 347

Enmity toward the Gods

II.7.11k.10

They also hold that every foolish person is an enemy to the gods. For enmity is disagreement ⟨about⟩ the affairs of life and discord, just as friendship is agreement and concord. Base people disagree with the gods about the affairs of life; hence every fool is an enemy to the gods.⁴⁵⁸ Again, if everyone considers those opposed to him to be enemies, and the base person is opposed to the virtuous person, while god is virtuous, the base person is an enemy to the gods.⁴⁵⁹

Errors Equal but Not Alike

II.7.11l.1

They say that all errors are equal, but not alike. For they naturally flow, as it were, from a single source, vice, the judgment being the same in every error. But because of the external cause, as the intermediate things about which the judgments are formed differ, the errors differ in quality.⁴⁶⁰

458.The definition of enmity uses ἀσυμφωνία and διχόνοια, disagreement and discord, opposed to συμφωνία and ὁμόνοια, agreement and concord. Meineke’s supplied περί, “about,” remains bracketed. The affairs of life are explicitly the subject of disagreement; compare the earlier accounts of friendship and concord at II.7.5l and II.7.11b.

459.The final argument retains its conditional opening, “if everyone considers,” and its shift from singular god to plural gods. The conclusion is drawn from the opposition of virtue and vice, not from a reported conflict with a particular cult or community.

460.The source distinguishes equality from qualitative likeness. Its shared ground is vice and the same character of judgment; its difference lies in the external cause and the intermediate things judged. Μέσα retains “intermediate things,” the category distinguished from goods and evils earlier. The argument does not erase differences among the objects or circumstances of wrong actions.

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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