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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 2 · II.2.5.2
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p. 50Ἰαμβλίχου πρὸς Δέξιππον · συνέχεια
Ὡς δὲ τὰ ἔργα αὐτὰ δείκνυσιν, αὐτὸς ὁ ἐν Δελφοῖς θεὸς οὔτε λέγων καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον, οὔτε κρύπτων ἀλλὰ σημαίνων τὰς μαντείας, ἐγείρει πρὸς διαλεκτικὴν διερεύνησιν τοὺς ἐπηκόους τῶν χρησμῶν, ἀφ’ ἧς ἀμφιβολία τε καὶ ὁμωνυμία ἐκρίθησαν καὶ διττὸν πᾶν ἀνερευνηθὲν φῶς ἐπιστήμης ἀνῆψεν· ὃ κατιδὼν καὶ Θεμιστοκλῆς καλῶς καὶ διερευνήσας δεξιῶς τὸ ξύλινον τεῖχος, αἴτιος ἀναμφισβητήτως κατέστη τῆς σωτηρίας τοῖς Ἕλλησιν. Ἀδελφὰ δὲ τούτων καὶ ὁ ἐν Βραγχίδαις θεὸς ἐκφαίνει τῆς διαλεκτικῆς ἔργα, περιφανῆ τὴν ἐπαγωγὴν παραδηλῶν, ὅταν λέγῃ· „οὔτ’ ἂν ὠκυπέτης ἰὸς οὔτε λύρη οὔτε νηῦς οὔτ’ ἄλλο οὐδὲν ἄνευ ἐπιστημονικῆς χρήσιος γένοιτ’ ἄν κοτε ὠφέλιμον“.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 2
p. 51Iamblichus to Dexippus · 2
As the deeds themselves show, the god at Delphi, neither declaring nor concealing, as Heraclitus says, but giving signs through his oracles, rouses their hearers to dialectical investigation. Through it, ambiguity and sameness of name have been sorted out, and every double meaning, when investigated, has kindled the light of knowledge. Themistocles too understood this well: by skillfully investigating the “wooden wall,” he became indisputably responsible for the Greeks’ deliverance.63 The god at Branchidae likewise displays related works of dialectic, making induction quite evident when he says: “Neither a swift-flying arrow, nor a lyre, nor a ship, nor anything else could ever be useful without knowledgeable use.”64
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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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