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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 4 · II.4.17.4
Ancient Greek
p. 96Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Σοφιστοῦ · συνέχεια
— Δηλοῖ γὰρ ἤδη που τότε περὶ τῶν ὄντων ἢ γιγνομένων ἢ γεγονότων ἢ μελλόντων· καὶ οὐκ ὀνομάζει μόνον, ἀλλά τι περαίνει συμπλέκων τὰ ῥήματα τοῖς ὀνόμασι. Διὸ λέγειν τε αὐτόν, ἀλλ’ οὐ μόνον ὀνομάζειν εἴπομεν· καὶ δὴ καὶ τῷ πλέγματι τούτῳ τὸ ὄνομα ἐπεφθεγξάμεθα λόγον.
— Ὀρθῶς.
— Οὕτω δὴ καθάπερ τὰ πράγματα τὰ μὲν ἀλλήλοις ἥρμοττε, τὰ δ’ οὔ· καὶ περὶ τὰ τῆς φωνῆς αὖ σημεῖα τὰ μὲν οὐχ ἁρμόττει, τὰ δὲ ἁρμόττοντα αὐτῶν λόγον ἀπειργάσατο.
— Παντάπασι μὲν οὖν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 4
p. 97Plato from the Sophist · 4
“For it now makes something clear about things that are, are coming to be, have come to be, or will be. It does not merely name, but accomplishes something by combining verbs with names. That is why we said that the person speaks, rather than merely names; and we gave this weaving the name ‘statement.’”
“Rightly.”
“Thus, just as some things fitted together with one another and others did not, so with vocal signs: some do not fit, while those among them that do fit produce a statement.”
“Entirely so.”118
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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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