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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.14.8–II.7.14.9
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p. 422Ὁ τῶν ἀρετῶν χορός
Τούτων δὴ τοῦτον τὸν λόγον ἐχόντων ἥ τε εὐεργεσία συστήσεται καὶ ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ εὐχαριστία καὶ φιλανθρωπία καὶ φιλοτεκνία καὶ φιλαδελφία καὶ πρὸς ταύταις τό τε φιλόπατρι καὶ φιλόπατορ καὶ φιλοίκεον καὶ κατὰ τὸ προσῆκον ἥ τ’ εὐκοινωνησία καὶ ἡ εὔνοια καὶ ἡ φιλία καὶ ἡ ἰσότης καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ πᾶς ὁ τῶν ἀρετῶν θεῖος χορός, οὗ τοὺς κατολιγωρήσαντας ἁμαρτάνειν φανερῶς περί τε τὰς αἱρέσεις τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ τὰς φυγὰς τῶν κακῶν καὶ περὶ τὴν κτῆσιν καὶ περὶ τὴν χρῆσιν τῶν ἀγαθῶν, ὁμολογουμένως τε διασφάλλεσθαι περὶ μὲν τὴν αἵρεσιν παρὰ τὴν κρίσιν, περὶ δὲ τὴν κτῆσιν παρὰ τὸν τρόπον, περὶ δὲ τὴν χρῆσιν παρὰ τὴν ἀμαθίαν.
Ἁμαρτήματα περὶ αἵρεσιν καὶ κτῆσιν
Περὶ μὲν οὖν τὴν αἵρεσιν ἁμαρτάνειν, ὅταν τὸ μηδ’ ὅλως ὂν ἀγαθὸν αἱρῶνται, ἢ τὸ ἧττον σφοδρότερον ἢ δεῖ. τοῦτο δὲ περὶ τοὺς πλείστους ὑπάρχειν τὸ μὲν ἡδὺ τοῦ συμφέροντος, τὸ δὲ συμφέρον τοῦ καλοῦ προκρίνοντας καὶ ταῖς ὁρμαῖς ἀμέτρως προεκφοιτῶντας. Περὶ δὲ τὴν κτῆσιν, ὅταν μήτε ὅθεν μήθ’ ὅπως μήτε ἐφ’ ὅσον χρὴ περιποιεῖσθαι ταῦτα προδιαλάβωσι.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 423The Chorus of Virtues
With matters standing thus, beneficence, favor, gratitude, love of humanity, love of children, and brotherly love will be established; and besides these, love of country, love of one’s father, and love of one’s kin; and, as is fitting, good sociability, goodwill, friendship, equality, justice, and the whole divine chorus of virtues.560 Those who neglect this chorus clearly err in their choices of goods and avoidance of evils, and in acquiring and using goods. They admittedly go astray in choice because of their judgment, in acquisition because of their character, and in use because of their ignorance.561
Errors in Choice and Acquisition
They err in choice, then, when they choose what is not good at all, or choose the lesser good more vehemently than they should. This happens to most people: they prefer the pleasant to the beneficial, and the beneficial to the noble, and go beyond measure in their impulses. They err in acquisition when they have not first determined from what sources, in what manner, or to what extent they should procure these goods.562
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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.
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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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