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.7.11s.6–II.7.11s.7

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Πραότης ἡσυχιότης καὶ κοσμιότης

II.7.11s.6

Εἶναι δὲ καὶ πρᾶον, τῆς πραότητος οὔσης ἕξεως καθ’ ἣν πράως ἔχουσι πρὸς τὸ ποιεῖν τὰ ἐπιβάλλοντα ἐν πᾶσι καὶ μὴ ἐκφέρεσθαι εἰς ὀργὴν ἐν μηδενί. Καὶ ἡσύχιον δὲ καὶ κόσμιον εἶναι, τῆς κοσμιότητος οὔσης ἐπιστήμης κινήσεων πρεπουσῶν, ἡσυχιότητος δὲ εὐταξίας περὶ τὰς κατὰ φύσιν κινήσεις καὶ μονὰς ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος, τῶν ἐναντίων τούτοις ἐπὶ πάντων φαύλων γιγνομένων.

Διαβολὴ καὶ ἀληθινὴ φιλία

II.7.11s.7

Ἀδιάβολον δ’ εἶναι πάντα τὸν καλὸν κἀγαθόν, ἀπαράδεκτον ὄντα διαβολῆς, ὅθεν καὶ ἀδιάβολον εἶναι κατά τε τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον καὶ τῷ μὴ διαβάλλειν ἕτερον. Εἶναι δὲ τὴν διαβολὴν διάστασιν φαινομένων φίλων ψευδεῖ λόγῳ· τοῦτο δὲ μὴ γίνεσθαι περὶ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας, μόνους δὲ τοὺς φαύλους καὶ διαβάλλεσθαι καὶ διαβάλλειν, δι’ ὃ καὶ τοὺς μὲν κατ’ ἀλήθειαν φίλους μήτε διαβάλλειν μήτε διαβάλλεσθαι, τοὺς δὲ δοκοῦντας καὶ φαινομένους.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Gentleness Quietness and Orderliness

II.7.11s.6

He is also gentle, gentleness being a state in virtue of which people are gently disposed toward doing what falls to them in every case, and are never carried away into anger. He is also quiet and orderly. Orderliness is knowledge of fitting movements; quietness is good order in the natural movements and rests of soul and body. The contrary qualities occur in all base people.⁵⁰⁹

Slander and True Friendship

II.7.11s.7

Every noble and good person is immune to slander, being unreceptive to it. Thus he is free from slander both in this sense and by not slandering another. Slander is the separation of apparent friends by a false account. This does not happen among good men; only base people are both slandered and slanderers. Hence true friends neither slander nor suffer slander, while those who are merely thought or appear to be friends do.⁵¹⁰

509.The definitions distinguish gentleness as a ἕξις, state, orderliness as knowledge, and quietness as good order. Quietness includes both movements and rests, μονάς, of soul and body; it is not simply immobility. The qualifications “in every case” and “never” preserve the scope of the claim about the virtuous person, as does the final “all” concerning the base.

510.Ἀδιάβολος is explained in both a receptive and an active sense: not admitting slander and not slandering another. The definition gives slander a particular effect, separating apparent friends through a false account. The distinction between true and apparent friendship governs the denial; the text does not deny that someone can utter a false accusation against a good person. Compare the strict account of friendship at II.7.11m.5.

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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