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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 2 · II.2.3.1
Ancient Greek
p. 42Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Φαίδρου
Τούτων δέ τινων ἐκ τύχης ῥηθέντων δυοῖν εἰδοῖν, εἰ αὐτοῖν τὴν δύναμιν τέχνην λαβεῖν δύναιτό τις, οὐκ ἄχαρι.
— Τίνοιν δή;
— Εἰς μίαν τε ἰδέαν συνορῶντα ἄγειν τὰ πολλαχῇ διεσπαρμένα, ἵνα ἕκαστον ὁριζόμενος δῆλον ποιῇ περὶ οὗ ἂν ἀεὶ διδάσκειν ἐθέλῃ. Ὥσπερ τὰ νῦν δὴ περὶ Ἔρωτος, ὃ ἔστιν, ὁρισθέν, εἴτε εὖ εἴτε κακῶς ἐλέχθη. Τὸ γοῦν σαφὲς καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ αὐτῷ ὁμολογούμενον διὰ ταῦτα ἔσχεν εἰπεῖν ὁ λόγος.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 2
p. 43Plato from the Phaedrus · 1
“Two procedures happened to be mentioned in what we said. It would be no unpleasing thing if someone could grasp their power as an art.”
“What two?”
“To bring things scattered in many places into a single form by seeing them together, so that, by defining each subject, one may make clear whatever one wishes to teach. Take what was just said about Love, when it was defined as to what it is, whether the account was good or bad. At any rate, this enabled the discourse to express itself clearly and consistently.”55
Socrates
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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.
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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