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.7.11m.19–II.7.11m.20

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p. 368

Ἀπάτη καὶ παραριθμός

II.7.11m.19

Ἐχομένως δὲ τούτων οὔτε πλεονεκτεῖσθαι τὸν σοφὸν οὔτε βουκολεῖσθαι οὔτε διαιτᾶσθαι οὔτε παραριθμεῖν οὔτε ὑφ’ ἑτέρου παραριθμεῖσθαι· ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα τὴν ἀπάτην περιέχειν καὶ τοῖς κατὰ τὸν τόπον ψεύδεσι πρόσθεσιν.

Αἴσθησις καὶ ψευδὴς συγκατάθεσις

II.7.11m.20

Οὐδένα δὲ τῶν ἀστείων οὔθ’ ὁδοῦ διαμαρτάνειν οὔτ’ οἰκίας οὔτε σκοποῦ· ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ παρορᾶν [ἀλλ’] οὐδὲ παρακούειν νομίζουσι τὸν σοφόν, οὐδὲ τὸ σύνολον παραπαίειν κατά τι τῶν αἰσθητηρίων, καὶ γὰρ τούτων ἕκαστον ἔχεσθαι νομίζουσι τῶν[δε] ψευδῶν συγκαταθέσεων.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 369

Deception and Miscounting

II.7.11m.19

Following from these points, the wise person is neither cheated, nor led astray, nor taken in; he neither miscounts nor is cheated in counting by someone else.⁴⁹² For all these involve deception and acceptance of the falsehoods belonging to the subject in question.⁴⁹³

Sense Perception and False Assent

II.7.11m.20

No morally excellent person misses a road, a house, or a target. They also think that the wise person neither sees nor hears amiss, nor errs at all in any of the senses, for they consider each of these failures to depend on false assents.⁴⁹⁴

492.The printed διαιτᾶσθαι is difficult: its ordinary association is with arbitration, which does not fit the list readily. “Taken in” provisionally follows the context of deception; it is an interpretation, not a secure lexical equivalent. Wachsmuth records several conjectures, including Heeren’s διαπατᾶσθαι, “be thoroughly deceived,” and himself asks whether a word for being lured is intended. The printed Greek is retained. The final counting clauses distinguish making an error from being cheated by another.

493.Βουκολεῖσθαι literally evokes being herded and here means being led astray or duped. Πρόσθεσις, “acceptance,” is directed toward the relevant falsehoods; this explains why the list follows the denial of mistaken assent. The passage’s assertions concern the ideal wise person under these definitions.

494.The concrete list of road, house, and target remains intact. The explanation relates sensory failures to false assent; it has not been replaced by a modern theory of perception. Wachsmuth brackets ἀλλ’ before “hears amiss” and the suffix δε in τῶνδε for deletion. Both remain visible in Greek; the English omits the rejected connective and renders τῶν as “the,” without the demonstrative force of “these.”

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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