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.7.25.13–II.7.25.14

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Εὐκοσμία καὶ εὐταξία

II.7.25.13

εὐκοσμίαν δὲ ἕξιν περί τε κινήσεις καὶ σχέσεις τηρητικὴν τοῦ πρέποντος, μεταξὺ οὖσαν ἀκοσμίας καὶ ἀνωνύμου· εὐταξίαν δὲ ἕξιν στοχαστικὴν τοῦ περὶ τάξιν καλοῦ, μεταξὺ ἀταξίας οὖσαν καὶ ἀνωνύμου·

Αὐτάρκεια

II.7.25.14

αὐτάρκειαν δὲ ἕξιν ἀρκουμένην τοῖς τυχοῦσι μετὰ ἐλευθεριότητος, μεταξὺ πτωχείας οὖσαν καὶ πολυτελείας·

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Propriety and Orderliness

II.7.25.13

Propriety is a state of observing what is fitting in movements and postures, lying between impropriety and an unnamed state.⁷²² Orderliness is a state that aims at what is noble in order, lying between disorder and an unnamed state.⁷²³

Self Sufficiency

II.7.25.14

Self-sufficiency is a state content with what comes one’s way, together with generosity, lying between poverty and extravagance.⁷²⁴

722.Both κινήσεις, movements, and σχέσεις, postures or positions, remain in the definition of εὐκοσμία. Τὸ πρέπον is what is fitting. The named opposite, ἀκοσμία, is impropriety or lack of decorum in this context; the other extreme is left unnamed.

723.Εὐταξία is orderliness, with στοχαστική again expressing an aim at a target. Its object is the noble in matters of τάξις, order or arrangement. The named extreme is ἀταξία, disorder. This definition is distinguished from the preceding one concerning movements and postures.

724.The definition joins contentment with available circumstances to ἐλευθεριότης, generosity; neither element is omitted. Αὐτάρκεια is self-sufficiency here, defined as a particular ethical state. The source names πτωχεία, poverty or beggary, rather than ἀνελευθερία, illiberality, as one extreme; πολυτέλεια is costly extravagance. The unusual pairing is retained rather than rewritten as the earlier definition of generosity.

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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