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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.19.4
Ancient Greek
p. 462Καθ’ ἑαυτὰ καὶ δι’ ἕτερα
Ἔτι τῶν [αἱρετῶν καὶ] ἀγαθῶν τὰ μὲν καθ’ ἑαυτὰ εἶναι αἱρετά, τὰ δὲ δι’ ἕτερα. Τὰ μὲν γὰρ τίμια καὶ ἐπαινετὰ καὶ τὰς δυνάμεις καθ’ αὑτά· (καὶ γὰρ τὰς δυνάμεις ὑπάρχειν τῶν καθ’ αὑτὰ ἀγαθῶν, οἷον πλοῦτον καὶ ἀρχάς, οἷς ⟨εὖ⟩ ἂν χρήσαιτο καὶ ἂν ζητήσειεν ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἀνήρ· καὶ οἷς δύναται εὖ χρῆσθαι ἀγαθὸς [καὶ] καθ’ αὑτὰ ἀγαθὰ πεφυκέναι, ὥσπερ ὑγιεινά, ἃ καὶ ζητήσειεν ἂν ὁ ἰατρὸς καὶ δύναιτο χρῆσθαι·) τὰ δὲ ὠφέλιμα δι’ ἕτερα· τῷ γὰρ ποιεῖν ἕτερα καὶ σῴζειν τῶν αἱρετῶν ὑπάρχειν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 463For Themselves and for Other Things
Again, some goods are choiceworthy for themselves, and others for the sake of other things. Things worthy of honor, praiseworthy things, and powers are choiceworthy for themselves.614 (For powers too belong among goods in themselves—for example, wealth and offices, which a good man might use ⟨well⟩ and seek. Things that a good man can use well are naturally goods in themselves, like healthful things, which a doctor might seek and be able to use.) Useful things are choiceworthy for other things: they belong among choiceworthy things because they produce and preserve other things.615
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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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