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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.42.10–II.8.42.11
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p. 628Πορφυρίου — συνέχεια
Ἤδη οὖν ἡ μὲν ἑλομένη κυνὸς βίον ἔρχεται ἐπὶ τόνδε τὸν ὡροσκόπον· ἡ δὲ ἀνθρώπου κατὰ τὴν παράκλισιν τῆς στιγμῆς ἐπὶ τόνδε· φέρει δ’ αὐτὴν ἡ Δίκη κατὰ τῆς ἠθοποιίας ἰδιότητα ἐπί τινα μοῖραν τῆς περιφορᾶς, ἣ βίον ἔχει γεγραμμένον πρόσφορον ταῖς αὐτῆς προθυμίαις.
Πορφυρίου — συνέχεια
Ἡ δὲ Δίκη Τύχη λέγεται, αἰτία οὖσα ἄδηλος ἀνθρωπείῳ λογισμῷ. Ζῳδίων δὲ ὄντων δώδεκα, δι’ ὧν ἡ ὁδὸς ταῖς ψυχαῖς πεπίστευται τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις γίγνεσθαι τῇδε πανταχοῦ σχεδόν, αἱ μὲν πρῶται τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ μοῖραι, ὡς ἂν ἀγαθῷ νενεμημέναι τῷ κυρίῳ τοῦ ζῳδίου, παρεδόθησαν εἶναι ἀμφιλαφεῖς· αἱ δὲ τελευταῖαι ἐπὶ πάντων τοῖς κακοποιοῖς λεγομένοις ἀστράσιν ἀπενεμήθησαν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 629Porphyry continued
By now, then, the soul that has chosen a dog’s life comes to this ascendant, while the one that has chosen a human life comes to that ascendant as the instant shifts. Justice carries the soul, according to the distinctive way its character has been formed, to a certain degree of the revolution that has a life inscribed suited to the soul’s own inclinations.879
Porphyry continued
Justice is called Fortune, since she is a cause hidden from human reasoning.880 There are twelve zodiacal signs, and the Egyptians believe that souls make their journey here through them almost everywhere. The first degrees of the zodiac, having been assigned to the sign’s lord as a beneficent one, have been handed down as ample; the last degrees in every case have been assigned to the so-called malefic stars.881
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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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