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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.39.4
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p. 600Πορφυρίου — συνέχεια
Ἐπεὶ τοίνυν τὰ τοῦ Πλάτωνος εἰς τὰς χεῖρας λαβὼν μικρὰν ἡμᾶς ἀπεσφάλθαι τῆς τοῦ φιλοσόφου γνώμης κατεῖδον, ἐθαυμάσαμεν τοὺς ἀπορήσαντας. Βίους γὰρ αὐτοὺς μόνον λέγειν ἡγησάμενοι καὶ καθάπερ οἱ τὰ περὶ βίον πραγματευσάμενοι μέμνηνται γεωργικοῦ τινος βίου καὶ πάλιν πολιτικοῦ καὶ ἄλλου στρατιωτικοῦ, οὕτω καὶ τὸν Πλάτωνα πολλῶν καὶ διαφόρων ἐν ἀνθρώποις θεωρουμένων βίων καὶ τούτων τῆς αἱρέσεως ἐφ’ ἡμῖν ἐν πολλοῖς οὔσης καὶ πάλιν τῆς ἐξ αὐτῶν μεταθέσεως, εἰκότως θαυμάζουσι πῶς ὁ τούτων ἑλόμενός τινα κατηνάγκασται ἐκ παντὸς τοῦτον ἀποπλῆσαι μόνον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 601Porphyry continued
When, then, I took Plato’s writings in hand and saw that we had strayed a little from the philosopher’s meaning, we were surprised at those who had raised the difficulties.843 They supposed that he meant simply lives, in the sense in which writers on life mention a farming life, another political, and another military; they took Plato likewise to mean the many different lives observed among human beings. Since the choice of these, and likewise a change away from them, is in many cases up to us, they naturally wonder how someone who has chosen one of them is compelled to fulfill that one alone in every respect.844
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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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