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.7.25.9–II.7.25.10

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Ἄλλαι ἀρεταὶ καὶ τὰ εἴδη

II.7.25.9

Πολλῶν δὲ καὶ ἄλλων οὐσῶν ἀρετῶν, τῶν μὲν καθ’ αὑτάς, τῶν δ’ ἐν εἴδεσι τῶν εἰρημένων (οἷον ὑπὸ μὲν τὴν δικαιοσύνην εὐσεβείας, ὁσιότητος, χρηστότητος, εὐκοινωνησίας, εὐσυναλλαξίας· ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν σωφροσύνην εὐκοσμίας, εὐταξίας, αὐταρκείας· ⟨ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν ἀνδρείαν εὐψυχίας, φιλοπονίας⟩), ἐπιδραμεῖν οὐκ ἄτοπον καὶ τοὺς τούτων ὅρους.

Εὐσέβεια καὶ ὁσιότης

II.7.25.10

Εὐσέβειαν μὲν οὖν εἶναι ἕξιν θεῶν καὶ δαιμόνων θεραπευτικήν, μεταξὺ οὖσαν ἀθεότητος καὶ δεισιδαιμονίας· ὁσιότητα δὲ ἕξιν δικαίων τῶν πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς καὶ κατοιχομένους τηρητικήν, μεταξὺ ἀνοσιότητος οὖσαν καὶ ἀνωνύμου τινός·

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Other Virtues and Their Kinds

II.7.25.9

There are many other virtues, some in their own right and others among the kinds of those already mentioned. For example, under justice fall piety, holiness, kindness, good fellowship, and fair dealing; under self-control, propriety, orderliness, and self-sufficiency;⁷¹⁴ ⟨under courage, stoutheartedness and love of effort⟩. It is not out of place to run through their definitions as well.⁷¹⁵

Piety and Holiness

II.7.25.10

Piety is a state of attending to gods and divine spirits, lying between godlessness and superstition.⁷¹⁶ Holiness is a state of observing what is just toward the gods and the departed, lying between unholiness and a certain unnamed state.⁷¹⁷

714.The distinction between virtues in their own right and kinds subordinate to the virtues named above remains. All five under justice and all three under self-control are retained. These relationships resemble the earlier Stoic classification at II.7.5b2.2, but the local Peripatetic list is followed, including its separate holiness and self-sufficiency.

715.The entire phrase assigning stoutheartedness and love of effort to courage is supplied in Wachsmuth’s text and remains bracketed in both languages. Ἐπιδραμεῖν means to run over briefly; ὅροι are definitions. The next clauses define all ten of the named subordinate virtues, including the two introduced by this supplement.

716.Εὐσέβεια is piety, and θεραπευτική concerns attendance, service, or worship. Δαίμονες are divine spirits, without the necessarily evil sense of modern demons. The two named extremes are ἀθεότης, godlessness, and δεισιδαιμονία, superstition or excessive fear of divine powers.

717.Ὁσιότης, holiness, is distinguished from piety by its definition through obligations of justice toward both gods and the dead. Κατοιχόμενοι are the departed. The opposite ἀνοσιότης is named, but the other extreme remains unnamed; no name or additional practice is supplied to fill it.

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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