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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.20.7
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p. 478Πάθη δυνάμεις καὶ ἕξεις
Πρὸς δὲ τὸ σαφῶς δηλῶσαι τὰ περὶ τούτων ἀναγκαῖον ἡγοῦντο τὰ περὶ ψυχὴν γινόμενα προσλαβεῖν τῷ λόγῳ. ταῦτα δή φασιν ὑπάρχειν ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· πάθη, δυνάμεις, ἕξεις. Πάθη δ’ εἶναι ὀργήν, φόβον, μῖσος, πόθον, ζῆλον, ἔλεον, τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις, οἷς καὶ παρακολουθεῖν ἡδονὴν καὶ λύπην· δυνάμεις ⟨δέ⟩, καθ’ ἃς παθητικοὶ τούτων εἶναι λεγόμεθα, οἷον καθ’ ἃς ὀργιζόμεθα, φοβούμεθα, ζηλοῦμεν, τῶν τοιούτων ὁτιοῦν πεπόνθαμεν· ἕξεις δέ, καθ’ ἃς πρὸς ταῦτά πως ἔχομεν καὶ ἀφ’ ὧν ἡ τούτων ἐνέργεια εὖ ἢ κακῶς ἀποτελεῖται.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 479Passions Capacities and States
To explain these matters clearly, they thought it necessary to include in the account what occurs in the soul. They say that these things are present in human souls: passions, capacities, and states. Passions are anger, fear, hatred, longing, emulation, pity, and similar things, which pleasure and pain accompany.638 ⟨And⟩ capacities are those by which we are said to be susceptible to these things—for example, those by which we become angry, afraid, or emulous, or experience any such passion. States are those by which we stand in a certain way toward these things, and from which their activity comes about well or badly.639
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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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