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.7.26.10–II.7.26.11

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Ὅρος τοῦ πλήθους

II.7.26.10

Τοῦ δὲ πλήθους ὅρον εἶναι τοιοῦτον, ὥστε μήτε τὴν πόλιν ἀσυμπαθῆ μήτ’ εὐκαταφρόνητον ὑπάρχειν, παρεσκευάσθαι δὲ καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὴν ζωὴν ἀνενδεῶς καὶ τὰ πρὸς τοὺς ἔξωθεν ἐπιόντας ἱκανῶς.

Μέρη τῆς φρονήσεως

II.7.26.11

Εἶναι γὰρ τῆς φρονήσεως τὸ μὲν οἰκονομικόν, τὸ δὲ νομοθετικόν, τὸ δὲ πολιτικόν, τὸ δὲ στρατηγικόν. Οἰκονομικὸν μέν, ὡς εἶπον, τὸ διοικητικὸν αὐτοῦ τε ⟨οἴκου⟩ καὶ τῶν περὶ οἶκον, νομοθετικὸν δὲ . . . ⟨πολιτικὸν δὲ . . ., στρατηγικὸν δὲ⟩ τὸ περὶ τὴν θεωρίαν καὶ διοίκησιν τῶν στρατοπέδῳ συμφερόντων.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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The Limit of the Population

II.7.26.10

The population must have a limit such that the city is neither without fellow-feeling nor easily despised,⁷⁴⁹ and that it is provided without deficiency with what is needed for life, and adequately with what is needed against invaders from outside.⁷⁵⁰

The Parts of Practical Wisdom

II.7.26.11

For one part of practical wisdom concerns household management, another legislation, another politics, and another military command.⁷⁵¹ The household part, as I said, administers the ⟨household⟩ itself and what belongs to it; the legislative part [text missing]; ⟨the political part [text missing]; the military part⟩⁷⁵² concerns the study and administration of what is advantageous to an army camp.⁷⁵³

749.The unusual ἀσυμπαθής literally means without sympathy or shared feeling; without fellow-feeling follows that sense in the context of a political community. Wachsmuth queries the word and records proposed alternatives. The printed Greek is retained rather than replaced with a conjecture about size or disorder.

750.No numerical population is specified. The conditions concern internal cohesion, resistance to contempt, sufficient livelihood, and defense. The invaders are those coming against the city from outside, ἔξωθεν ἐπιόντας; the translation does not turn every outsider into an invader.

751.The four branches of φρόνησις remain distinct. Politics appears both as the wider subject under discussion and as a particular administrative branch beside legislation. The first-person as I said belongs to the exposition; Wachsmuth’s modern locator p. 149, 8–10 is moved out of the Greek body into this note. It refers to the definition translated at II.7.26.6.

752.The source leaves a gap after legislative. Its supplement introduces political with another gap and then military. Both omissions remain explicitly missing, and the entire supplied transition stays within angle brackets in English. The supplied household is likewise bracketed. Definitions are not reconstructed from a parallel Aristotelian text.

753.Στρατοπέδῳ is a singular dative, to an army camp, here the army considered in its organized military setting. The surviving definition includes both θεωρία, study or consideration, and διοίκησις, administration. These explanatory qualifications belong to the note; the missing definitions remain missing.

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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