Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.21.3–II.7.22.1

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Ἕξεις κακίας καὶ εἴδη ἔρωτος

II.7.21.3

Φιλαργυρίαν δὲ καὶ φιληδονίαν καὶ ἐρωτομανίαν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἕξεις εἶναι ἀλλοίας περὶ τὰς κακίας. Ἔρωτα δ’ εἶναι τὸν μὲν φιλίας, τὸν δὲ συνουσίας, τὸν δὲ ἀμφοῖν· δι’ ὃ καὶ τὸν μὲν σπουδαῖον, τὸν δὲ φαῦλον, τὸν δὲ μέσον.

Διαφοραὶ φιλίας

II.7.22.1

[Περὶ φιλίας].

Τῆς φιλίας δ’ εἶναι διαφορὰς τέσσαρας, ἑταιρικήν, συγγενικήν, ξενικήν, ἐρωτικήν· εἰ δὲ καὶ τὴν εὐεργετικὴν καὶ θαυμαστικὴν συγκαταριθμητέον, λόγου δεῖν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 497

Vicious States and Kinds of Love

II.7.21.3

Avarice, love of pleasure, erotic frenzy, and similar things are states of a different kind, concerned with vices.⁶⁶⁸ One kind of love seeks friendship, another sexual intercourse, and a third both; hence one is excellent, another base, and the third intermediate.⁶⁶⁹

Varieties of Friendship

II.7.22.1

Friendship has four varieties: friendship between companions, between relatives, between guest-friends, and between lovers.⁶⁷⁰ Whether friendship based on benefaction and friendship based on admiration should also be counted requires discussion.⁶⁷¹

668.The source calls these ἕξεις, states, distinguishing them from the preceding passions. All three examples remain: φιλαργυρία, avarice or love of money; φιληδονία, love of pleasure; and ἐρωτομανία, erotic frenzy. The compressed ἀλλοίας περὶ τὰς κακίας is rendered of a different kind, concerned with vices, without replacing it with a new definition of passion.

669.The genitives φιλίας and συνουσίας indicate what love seeks; συνουσία is sexual intercourse in this contrast. The third kind seeks both. The three ensuing judgments follow the same order, including the intermediate classification of the mixed kind. This is a classification of kinds of ἔρως, not an independently stated rule about every instance of sexual conduct.

670.The bracketed summary heading reads “On friendship.” All four varieties are retained. Ἑταιρική concerns companions, συγγενική relatives, ξενική the relationship of guest-friends, and ἐρωτική lovers. Guest-friendship is the bond associated with hospitality; it is not simply any friendship with a foreign person.

671.The additional two varieties are raised conditionally, not asserted as an unquestioned expansion from four to six. Εὐεργετική concerns benefaction and θαυμαστική admiration. The next sentence nevertheless gives a beginning for each, allowing discussion of their grounds without removing the preceding qualification.

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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