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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.129.1
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p. 978Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Σοφιστοῦ
Δύο μὲν εἴδη κακίας περὶ ψυχὴν ῥητέον. — Ποῖα; — Τὸ μὲν οἷον νόσον ἐν σώματι, τὸ δ’ οἷον αἶσχος ἐγγιγνόμενον. — Οὐκ ἔμαθον. — Νόσον ἴσως καὶ στάσιν οὐ ταὐτὸν νενόμικας. — Οὐδ’ αὖ πρὸς τοῦτο ἔχω τί χρή με ἀποκρίνασθαι. — Πότερον ἄλλο τι στάσιν ἡγούμενος ἢ τὴν τοῦ φύσει ξυγγενοῦς ἔκ τινος διαφορᾶς διαφθοράν; — Οὐδέν. — Ἀλλ’ αἶσχος ἄλλο τι πλὴν τὸ τῆς ἀμετρίας πανταχοῦ δυσειδὲς ἓν ὂν γένος; — Οὐδαμῶς ἄλλο. — Τί δέ; ἐν ψυχῇ δόξας ἐπιθυμίαις καὶ θυμὸν ἡδοναῖς καὶ λόγον λύπαις καὶ πάντ’ ἀλλήλοις ταῦτα τῶν φλαύρως ἐχόντων οὐκ ᾐσθήμεθα διαφερόμενα; — Καὶ σφόδρα γε. — Ξυγγενῆ γε μὴν ἐξ ἀνάγκης ξύμπαντα γέγονε. — Πῶς γὰρ οὔ; — Στάσιν ἄρα καὶ νόσον τῆς ψυχῆς πονηρίαν λέγοντες ὀρθῶς ἐροῦμεν. — Ὀρθότατα μὲν οὖν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 979Plato, From the Sophist
We must distinguish two kinds of badness in the soul. — What kinds? — One like disease in the body, the other like ugliness arising in it. — I do not understand. — Perhaps you have not regarded disease and internal conflict as the same. — Nor do I know how I should answer that. — Do you understand internal conflict as anything other than the destruction, through some disagreement, of what is naturally akin? — Nothing else. — And ugliness: is it anything other than the single kind of disproportion that is ugly everywhere? — Nothing else at all.1446 — Well then, in people in a bad condition, have we not noticed opinions conflicting with desires, anger with pleasures, reasoning with pains, and all these with one another in the soul? — Very much so. — Yet all these must necessarily be naturally akin. — Of course. — Then we shall speak correctly if we call vice internal conflict and disease of the soul. — Quite correctly indeed.1447
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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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