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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 2 · II.2.3.2
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p. 44Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Φαίδρου · συνέχεια
— Τὸ δ’ ἕτερον δὴ εἶδος τί λέγεις, ὦ Σώκρατες;
— Τὸ πάλιν κατ’ εἴδη δύνασθαι διατέμνειν, κατ’ ἄρθρα, ᾗ πέφυκε, καὶ μὴ ἐπιχειρεῖν καταγνύναι μέρος μηδέν, κακοῦ μαγείρου τρόπῳ χρώμενον· ἀλλὰ ὥσπερ ἄρτι τὼ λόγω τὸ μὲν ἄφρον τῆς διανοίας ἕν τι κοινῇ εἶδος ἐλαβέτην, ὥσπερ δὲ σώματι ἐξ ἑνὸς διπλᾶ καὶ ὁμώνυμα πέφυκε, σκαιά, τὰ δὲ δεξιὰ κληθέντα· οὕτω καὶ τὰ τῆς παροινίας ὡς ἡμῖν πεφυκὸς εἶδος ἡγησαμένω τὼ λόγω, ὁ μὲν ἐπ’ ἀριστερὰ τεμνόμενος μέρος, πάλιν τοῦτο τέμνων οὐκ ἀνῆκε, πρὶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐφευρὼν ὀνομαζόμενον σκαιόν τινα ἔρωτα ἐλοιδόρησε μάλ’ ἐν δίκῃ· ὁ δ’ εἰς τὸ ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς μανίας ἀγαγὼν ἡμᾶς, ὁμώνυμον μὲν ἐκείνῳ, θεῖον δ’ αὖ τινα ἔρωτα ἐφευρὼν καὶ προτεινόμενος ἐπῄνεσεν ὡς μεγίστων αἴτιον ἡμῖν ἀγαθῶν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 2
p. 45Plato from the Phaedrus · 2
“And what is the other procedure you mean, Socrates?”
“The ability, in turn, to divide according to forms, at the joints where they naturally lie, without trying to break any part as a bad butcher would. Our two speeches just now took the irrational element in thought as one common form. Just as in a body paired parts with the same names grow from a single whole, some called left and others right, so the two speeches treated drunken frenzy as a form naturally present in us.56 The one cut off the part on the left and divided it again, never stopping until it discovered among those divisions a love called left-handed, which it reproached with every justice. The other led us to the right-hand part of madness, discovered a love bearing the same name as the first but divine in character, held it before us, and praised it as the cause of our greatest blessings.”57
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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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