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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 2 · II.2.3.3–II.2.4.1
Ancient Greek
p. 46Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Φαίδρου · συνέχεια
— Ἀληθέστατα λέγεις.
— Τούτων δὴ ἔγωγε αὐτός τε ἐραστής, ὦ Φαῖδρε, τῶν διαιρέσεων καὶ συναγωγῶν, ἵν’ οἷός τε ὦ λέγειν τε καὶ φρονεῖν· ἐάν τέ τινα ἄλλον ἡγήσωμαι δυνατὸν εἰς ἓν καὶ ἐπὶ πολλὰ πεφυκόθ’ ὁρᾶν, τοῦτον διώκω κατόπισθεν μετ’ ἴχνιον ὥστε θεοῖο. Καὶ μέντοι καὶ τοὺς δυναμένους αὐτὸ δρᾶν, εἰ μὲν ὀρθῶς ἢ μὴ προσαγορεύω, θεὸς οἶδε· καλῶ δὲ οὖν μέχρι τοῦδε διαλεκτικούς.
Ἀρχύτου περὶ τοῦ ὄντος
Παντᾷ μοι δοκέοντι ἁμαρτάνειν οἱ λέγοντες δύο λόγως περὶ παντὸς λέγεσθαι ἀντίως ἀλλάλοις καὶ ναμαρτέας ἀμφοτέρως. Ἐγὼ δὲ πρᾶτον τοῦτ’ ἀδύνατον νομίζω, ἀμφοτέρων πιστῶν ἐόντων ἀντίως εἶμεν ἀλλάλοις, τὸ καλὸν τῷ καλῷ καὶ τὸ λευκὸν τῷ λευκῷ. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει· ἀλλὰ ἔστι τὸ καλὸν καὶ ⟨τὸ⟩ αἰσχρὸν ἀντία, καὶ τὸ λευκὸν καὶ τὸ μέλαν. Οὕτω δὲ καὶ τὸ ναμαρτὲς τῷ ψεύδει φαμές, οὐδὲ ναμαρτέας ⟨ἀντίως⟩ δύο λόγως λέγεσθαι ἢ δύο ψευδέας, ἀλλὰ τὸν μὲν ἀλαθέα, τὸν δὲ ψεύσταν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 2
p. 47Plato from the Phaedrus · 3
“What you say is entirely true.”
“I myself am a lover of these divisions and collections, Phaedrus, so that I may be able to speak and think. And if I judge someone else naturally able to look toward a unity and toward a plurality, I follow behind him, in his footsteps, as though he were a god.58 As for those who can do this, whether the name I give them is right or wrong, a god knows; at any rate, so far I call them dialecticians.”
Archytas from On Being · 1
Those who say that two statements can be made about everything, opposed to one another and both true, seem to me entirely mistaken. First, I hold it impossible for them to be opposed to one another while both are trustworthy—as though the beautiful were opposed to the beautiful, and the white to the white. That is not how it is: the beautiful and the ugly are opposites, as are the white and the black. Likewise, we say, truth is opposed to falsehood. Two true statements cannot be made ⟨in opposition⟩, nor two false ones: one must be true, the other false.59
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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