Diotimos Library · Greek Antiquity Collection · Bilingual Edition
Stobaeus, Volume II
Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.
Explore the LexiconSwipe or use the arrow keys.
Ancient Greek Page · Branch 470 of 516
Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.3
Ancient Greek
p. 936Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Οἷον, ὅτι ἡδονὴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀγαθόν, αὐτόθεν μὲν οὐ δοκεῖ εἶναι γνώριμον, ἐπείπερ ἔργῳ προσκαλεῖται ἡμᾶς, ὡς ἀγαθὸν οὖσα, ἡ ἡδονή· λαβόντος δέ τινος λῆμμα γνώριμον, τὸ πᾶν ἀγαθὸν αἱρετὸν εἶναι καὶ προσλαβόντος ἕτερον γνώριμον τούτῳ, τὸ τινὰς ἡδονὰς οὐχ αἱρετὰς εἶναι, ἀποδείκνυομεν τὸ μὴ ἀγαθὸν εἶναι τὴν ἡδονήν, διὰ τῶν γνωρίμων τὸ μὴ γνώριμον. Πάλιν ὡς ὁ πόνος οὐκ ἔστι κακόν, αὐτόθεν μὲν οὐ φαίνεται πιθανόν· τοὐναντίον γὰρ τούτου δοκεῖ πιθανώτερον, τὸ κακὸν εἶναι τὸν πόνον· τεθέντος δὲ φανεροῦ λήμματος, τοῦ πᾶν τὸ κακὸν φευκτὸν εἶναι καὶ προστεθέντος αὐτῷ φανερωτέρου, τοῦ πόνους πολλοὺς οὐκ εἶναι φευκτούς, περαίνεται τὸ μὴ κακὸν εἶναι τὸν πόνον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 937Musonius continued
For example, that pleasure is not a good does not seem known of itself, since in fact pleasure invites us as though it were a good.1373 But if someone takes a known premise—that every good is to be chosen—and adds another known fact to it, that some pleasures are not to be chosen, we demonstrate that pleasure is not a good: the unknown through the known.1374 Again, that hardship is not an evil does not appear convincing of itself. Its contrary seems more convincing: that hardship is an evil. But once an evident premise is laid down, that every evil is to be avoided, and a more evident one is added, that many hardships are not to be avoided, it follows that hardship is not an evil.1375
Socrates
Reading Stobaeus, Volume II · Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.3
Ask about a concept, passage, contradiction, or connection.
Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
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.
Historical Text and Translation
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.
About Diotimos Editions
This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.
Rights
Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.