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.7.14.1

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Ἀναλογία τῶν τριῶν γενῶν τῶν ἀγαθῶν

II.7.14.1

[Ὅτι τὰ τρία γένη τῶν ἀγαθῶν, τὰ περὶ σῶμα, τὰ περὶ ψυχήν, τὰ ἐκτός, ἀναλογίαν πρὸς ἄλληλα ἔχει, καίτοι διαφέροντα.]

Τὸν παραπλήσιον δ’ εἶναι λόγον καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν, διὰ τὸ δοκεῖν τὰ τρία γένη τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐκ πλείστης διαφορᾶς τῆς ἐν ἀλλήλοις ὅμως ἔχειν τινὰ πρὸς τὸν λόγον ἀναλογίαν, ἣν καὶ δὴ πειράσομαι δηλῶσαι σαφῶς.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Analogies among the Three Kinds of Goods

II.7.14.1

A similar account applies to the virtues too.⁵⁴⁸ For the three kinds of goods, despite their very great differences from one another, nevertheless seem to bear some analogy in respect of their account, which I shall now try to make clear.⁵⁴⁹

548.The square-bracketed heading reads: “That the three kinds of goods, those concerning body, those concerning soul, and external goods, bear an analogy to one another, although they differ.” Wachsmuth judges the headings throughout this Peripatetic exposition to be later additions: brief marginal summaries devised by a scribe, referring to nearby sentences rather than surveying the whole argument. His rejected heading remains visible in the Greek and is translated here instead of being incorporated into the English main text. The paired labels and final numbered subdivisions in this edition serve the layout.

549.Πρὸς τὸν λόγον, rendered “in respect of their account,” is difficult. Wachsmuth retains the manuscript wording, while recording Spengel’s deletion and Usener’s tentative πρὸς τὸ ὅλον, “in relation to the whole.” Neither proposal is silently adopted. The first-person promise “I shall now try” belongs to the speaker of the epitome; the English preserves that change of voice.

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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