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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 2 · II.2.4.2–II.2.5.1
Ancient Greek
p. 48Ἀρχύτου περὶ τοῦ ὄντος · συνέχεια
Ὁ γὰρ τὰν ψυχὰν ἐπαινέων τῶ ἀνθρώπω καὶ ⟨ὁ⟩ τὸ σῶμα μεμφόμενος οὐχ ὑπὲρ τωὐτῶ λέγοντι· αἰ μὴ καὶ αἴ τι περὶ τᾶς γᾶς λεγοίεν καὶ τῶ οὐρανῶ, τωὐτόν. Ταῦτα γὰρ δύο ἐντί, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἕν. Ὀνομαστὶ δὲ θέλω καὶ τοῦτο δεῖξαι. Ὁ γὰρ λέγων περὶ Ἀθαναίων ὡς ἐντὶ κατὰ λόγον ἄνδρες ἀγαθοί, καὶ ὁ λέγων ὡς ἐντὶ περὶ χάριτας φαῦλοι, οὐκ ἀντία λέγοντι· τὰ γὰρ ἀντία περὶ τωὐτῶ πράγματος ἀντικέαται ἀλλάλοις, ταῦτα δὲ δύο ἐντὶ πράγματα.
Ἐκ τῆς Ἰαμβλίχου ἐπιστολῆς πρὸς Δέξιππον περὶ διαλεκτικῆς
Θεὸς ἦν τις ὡς ἀληθῶς ὁ καταδείξας τὴν διαλεκτικὴν καὶ καταπέμψας τοῖς ἀνθρώποις· ὡς μὲν λέγουσί τινες, ὁ λόγιος Ἑρμῆς, ὁ φέρων ἐν ταῖν χεροῖν τὸ σύνθημα αὐτῆς ⟨τὸ⟩ τῶν εἰς ἀλλήλους ἀποβλεπόντων δρακόντων· ὡς δ’ οἱ δεδοκιμασμένοι καὶ πρόκριτοι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ διατείνονται, ἡ τῶν Μουσῶν πρεσβυτάτη Καλλιόπη τὴν ἄπταιστον ἀσφάλειαν τοῦ λόγου καὶ ἀνέλεγκτον ‘αἰδοῖ μειλιχίῃ’ διαπρέπουσαν παρέσχηκεν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 2
p. 49Archytas from On Being · 2
For someone who praises a person’s soul and ⟨someone⟩ who finds fault with the body are not speaking about the same thing—unless speaking about the earth and the heavens would also concern the same thing. These are two things, not one. I wish to show this also by naming a particular case. Someone who says that the Athenians are good men in matters of speech, and someone who says that they are poor in matters of gratitude, are not making opposed statements. For opposites stand opposed to one another concerning the same matter, whereas these are two different matters.60
From Iamblichus’s Letter to Dexippus on Dialectic · 1
It truly was a god who revealed dialectic and sent it down to human beings: according to some, Hermes, lord of eloquence, who carries in his hands its emblem of serpents looking toward one another.61 But the most approved and eminent among philosophers maintain that Calliope, the eldest of the Muses, bestowed the unfailing and irrefutable assurance of discourse, distinguished by “gentle reverence.”62
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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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