Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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p. 458

Αἱρετὰ τελικὰ καὶ ποιητικά

II.7.19.2

Καὶ τὸ δι’ αὑθ’ αἱρετὸν δὲ τριχῶς λέγεσθαι· ἢ οὗ χάριν τινὰ πράττομεν ὡς ἐσχάτου· ἢ οὗ χάριν πάντα· ἢ τρίτον ὃ μέρος γίνεται τούτων. Τῶν δὲ δι’ αὑτ’ αἱρετῶν τὰ μὲν εἶναι τελικά, τὰ δὲ ποιητικά. Τελικὰ μὲν τὰς κατ’ ἀρετὴν προηγουμένας πράξεις· ποιητικὰ δὲ τὰ ὑλικὰ τῶν ἀρετῶν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 459

Choiceworthy Things as Ends and Means

II.7.19.2

What is choiceworthy for its own sake is also spoken of in three senses: that for whose sake we do certain things, as an ultimate end; that for whose sake we do everything; and, third, what becomes a part of these.⁶¹⁰ Of things choiceworthy for their own sake, some serve as ends and others are productive means. Those serving as ends are preferred actions in accordance with virtue; productive means are the material things used by the virtues.⁶¹¹

610.The first two senses differ in scope: τινά, certain things, and πάντα, everything. The third retains the source’s plural τούτων, these, without replacing it with a newly specified single end. Being a part belongs to this third formulation; the preceding distinctions between constituent parts and necessary conditions remain relevant.

611.Τελικά concerns ends, and ποιητικά what produces or contributes to them. Προηγουμένας is preferred, as in II.7.17.1; the printed word is retained. Wachsmuth prints τῶν ἀρετῶν, of the virtues, where his apparatus records transmitted τῶν αἱρετῶν, of choiceworthy things. The English follows the printed virtues. Ὑλικά is material things or means. The account expressly includes both classes among what is choiceworthy for its own sake.

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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