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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 4 · II.4.16
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p. 88Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Θεαιτήτου
Ὀνομάτων γὰρ συμπλοκὴν εἶναι λόγου οὐσίαν. Οὕτω δὴ τὰ μὲν στοιχεῖα ἄλογα καὶ ἄγνωστα εἶναι, αἰσθητὰ δέ· τὰς δὲ συλλαβὰς γνωστάς τε καὶ ῥητὰς καὶ ἀληθεῖ δόξῃ δοξαστάς. Ὅταν μὲν οὖν ἄνευ λόγου τὴν ἀληθῆ δόξαν τινός τις λάβῃ, ἀληθεύειν μὲν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν περὶ αὐτό, γιγνώσκειν δ’ οὔ. Τὸν γὰρ μὴ δυνάμενον δοῦναί τε καὶ δέξασθαι λόγον, ἀνεπιστήμονα εἶναι περὶ τούτου· προσλαβόντα δὲ λόγον δυνατόν τε ταῦτα πάντα γεγονέναι καὶ τελέως πρὸς ἐπιστήμην ἔχειν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 4
p. 89Plato from the Theaetetus
For a combination of names, it is said, is the essence of an account. Thus the elements have no account and cannot be known, though they can be perceived; syllables, however, can be known, expressed, and made the objects of true opinion. When someone acquires a true opinion of something without an account, his soul is right about it, but he does not know it. For whoever cannot give and receive an account is without knowledge of that thing; once he adds an account, he becomes capable of all these things and fully attains the condition of knowledge.114
Socrates
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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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