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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 4 · II.4.17.1
Ancient Greek
p. 90Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Σοφιστοῦ
Φέρε δή, καθάπερ περὶ τῶν εἰδῶν καὶ τῶν γραμμάτων ἐλέγομεν, περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων πάλιν ὡσαύτως ἐπισκεψώμεθα· φαίνεται γὰρ πῃ ταύτῃ τὸ νῦν ζητούμενον.
— Τὸ ποῖον οὖν δὴ περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων ὑπακουστέον;
— Εἴτε πάντα ἀλλήλοις ξυναρμόττει, εἴτε μηδέν, εἴτε τὰ μὲν ἐθέλει, τὰ δὲ μή.
— Δῆλον τοῦτό γε, ὅτι τὰ μὲν ἐθέλει, τὰ δ’ οὔ.
— Τὸ τοιόνδε λέγεις ἴσως, ὅτι τὰ μὲν ἐφεξῆς λεγόμενα καὶ δηλοῦντά τι ξυναρμόττει· τὰ δὲ τῇ συνεχείᾳ μηδὲν σημαίνοντα ἀναρμοστεῖ.
— Πῶς τί τοῦτ’ εἶπας;
— Ὅπερ ᾠήθην ὑπολαβόντα σὲ προσομολογεῖν· ἔστι γὰρ ἡμῖν που τῶν τῇ φωνῇ περὶ τὴν οὐσίαν δηλωμάτων διττὸν γένος.
— Πῶς;
— Τὸ μὲν ὀνόματα, τὸ δὲ ῥήματα κληθέν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 4
p. 91Plato from the Sophist · 1
“Come, then: just as we spoke about forms and letters, let us examine names again in the same way. What we are now seeking seems to lie somewhere in this direction.”
“What question about names are we to consider?”
“Whether all fit together with one another, or none do, or some are willing to and others are not.”
“It is clear that some are willing to, and others are not.”
“Perhaps you mean that those which, when spoken in sequence, make something clear fit together, while those whose sequence signifies nothing fail to fit.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“What I thought you understood when you agreed. There are, I take it, two kinds of indications about being made by the voice.”
“How so?”
“One is called names, the other verbs.”115
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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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