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.7.13.16–II.7.13.17

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Φιλία ἔπαινος καὶ εὐδοξία

II.7.13.16

Ἐπεὶ δὲ κοινή τις ἡμῖν ὑπάρχει φιλανθρωπία, πολὺ μᾶλλον πρὸς τοὺς ἐν συνηθείᾳ φίλους τὸ δι’ αὑθ’ αἱρετὸν φανερώτερον· εἰ δ’ ὁ φίλος δι’ αὑτὸν αἱρετός, καὶ ἡ φιλία καὶ ἡ εὔνοια καὶ ἡ παρὰ πάντων τῶν τοῦ βίου κοινωνούντων καὶ ⟨ἡ⟩ παρὰ τῶν πλείστων ἀνθρώπων· ὥστε καὶ τὸν ἔπαινον εἶναι δι’ αὑτὸν αἱρετόν, οἰκειοῦσθαι γὰρ ἡμᾶς πρὸς τοὺς ἐπαινοῦντας. Εἰ δ’ ὁ ἔπαινος δι’ ἑαυτὸν αἱρετός, καὶ ἡ εὐδοξία· καὶ γὰρ οὐδὲν ἕτερον τὴν εὐδοξίαν κατὰ τὴν ὑπογραφὴν παρειλήφαμεν, εἰ μὴ τὸν παρὰ τῶν πολλῶν ἔπαινον.

Τὰ ἔξωθεν καὶ τὰ ἐν ἡμῖν

II.7.13.17

Ὥστε ταύτῃ μὲν τὰ γινόμενα τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἔξωθεν ὅτι δι’ αὑθ’ αἱρετὰ πέφυκεν ἐπιδεδείχθαι σαφῶς· πῶς οὖν οὐ πολὺ μᾶλλον τὰ περὶ ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν; λέγω δὴ τὰ περὶ σῶμά τε καὶ ψυχήν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Friendship Praise and Good Reputation

II.7.13.16

Since we have a shared love of humanity, it is far clearer that familiar friends are choiceworthy for their own sakes. If the friend is choiceworthy for his own sake, so too are friendship, goodwill, the goodwill of all who share our life, and ⟨that⟩ of most people. Hence praise too is choiceworthy for its own sake, for we feel an affinity with those who praise us.⁵³⁶ If praise is choiceworthy for its own sake, so is good reputation. For in the outline we have accepted good reputation as nothing other than praise from the many.⁵³⁷

External Goods and What Is within Us

II.7.13.17

Thus it has been clearly shown in this way that the goods arising from outside are naturally choiceworthy for their own sakes. How much more, then, must this be true of what pertains to us and is within us? I mean what concerns body and soul.⁵³⁸

536.The argument moves from the common love of humanity, φιλανθρωπία, to familiar friends, then to friendship, goodwill, praise, and good reputation. The repeated article after εὔνοια is understood as continuing goodwill received from others; the supplied ἡ before “from most people” is expressed by the bracketed “that.” Οἰκειοῦσθαι again expresses affinity or attachment. The English preserves “most people” and “the many” as distinct expressions.

537.Εὐδοξία is good reputation or being well spoken of. The speaker refers to a definition already accepted “in the outline.” Wachsmuth notes that Stobaeus has not reproduced the earlier place in Didymus where this was stated. The reference therefore points back within the epitomist’s fuller discussion; it does not mean that a preceding portion of this English installment has been accidentally omitted.

538.The opening construction τὰ γινόμενα τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἔξωθεν is compressed. The English takes it as the goods arising from outside, referring back to friendship, goodwill, praise, and reputation. Wachsmuth records uncertainty about the placement of τῶν ἀγαθῶν. The following body and soul clause identifies the subjects of the next comparison; the argument now moves from external goods to goods of the person.

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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