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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 9 · II.9.7.1
Ancient Greek
p. 670Ἱεροκλέους ἐκ τοῦ Τίνα τρόπον θεοῖς χρηστέον
Πολὺ δέ μοι δοκεῖ συμβάλλεσθαι πρὸς τὸ καλῶς χρῆσθαι θεοῖς καὶ τὸ διειληφέναι, ὡς οὐδενός ποτε κακοῦ γίγνεται θεὸς αἴτιος, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἐκ τῆς κακίας ἀπαντᾷ μόνης, οἱ δὲ θεοὶ τὸ ἐφ’ ἑαυτοῖς ἀγαθῶν τέ εἰσιν αἴτιοι καὶ τῶν εὐχρήστων, ἡμεῖς δέ ἐσμεν οἱ τὰς εὐεργεσίας αὐτῶν οὐ προσιέμενοι, περιβάλλοντες δ’ ἑαυτοὺς κακοῖς αὐθαιρέτοις.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 9
p. 671Hierocles, from How One Should Deal with the Gods
Understanding the following also seems to me to contribute greatly to dealing well with the gods: a god never becomes the cause of any evil; these evils arise from vice alone.941 The gods, so far as depends on them, cause good and useful things, while we are the ones who refuse their benefactions and surround ourselves with evils of our own choosing.942
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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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