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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.120.6
Ancient Greek
p. 900Ἀρχύτα — συνέχεια
Ἀλλ’ ἁμὲς γε λέγομες σῶμα μὲν εἶμεν ψυχᾶς ὄργανον, νόον δὲ ἁγεμόνα τᾶς τε ἄλλας ψυχᾶς καὶ τῶ σκάνεος αὐτᾶς, τὰν δ’ ἐς τἆλλα εὐτυχίαν φυσικὰν ὀργανικὰν τᾷ νοερᾷ ἐνεργείᾳ εἶμεν, αἴ κα παντελὴς δυνάμι τε καὶ χρόνῳ καὶ χοραγίᾳ ᾖ.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 901Archytas continued
But we, for our part, say that the body is an instrument of the soul, and intellect the leader of the rest of the soul and of its bodily frame.1316 Good fortune in other matters is naturally instrumental to intellectual activity, provided it is complete in power, time and resources.1317
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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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