Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.2.10–II.7.2.11

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Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια

II.7.2.10

Τοῦ δὲ περὶ τῆς ὁρμῆς λόγου ὁ μέν ἐστι περὶ τῆς εἰδικῆς ὁρμῆς, ὁ δὲ περὶ παθῶν. Ἤτοι γὰρ πᾶν πάθος ὁρμὴ πλεονάζουσα, ἢ τὰ γε πλεῖστα μεθ’ ὁρμῆς καὶ [τὰ] ἀρρωστήματα.

Τοῦ δὲ περὶ τῆς πράξεως λόγου ὁ μέν ἐστι περὶ τῶν οἰκειούντων πρός τινας πράξεις, ὁ δὲ περὶ τῶν ἀλλοτριούντων ἀπό τινων πράξεων, ὁ δὲ τῶν αἰτίων ἀποδοτικὸς τῶν ἐπιτελούντων τινὰς σχέσεις ἢ κινήσεις, ὁ δὲ περὶ τῆς ἀσκήσεως, ὁ δὲ περὶ τῆς ἰδίως καὶ ὁμωνύμως τῷ γένει λεγομένης πράξεως.

Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια

II.7.2.11

Καὶ ὁ μὲν περὶ τῶν οἰκειούντων πρός τινας πράξεις διαιρεῖται εἴς τε τὸν ὑποθετικὸν καὶ τὸν προτρεπτικόν· ἔνιοι γὰρ καὶ τοῦτον ὑπὸ τόνδε τάττουσιν. Ὁ δὲ περὶ τῶν ἀποτρεπόντων καλεῖται παραμυθητικός, ὃς καλούμενός ἐστι πρός ἐνίων παθολογικός· τοῦ δὲ περὶ τῆς ὁμωνύμως λεγομένης πράξεως καὶ εἰδικῆς ὁ μέν ἐστι περὶ τῶν καθηκόντων, ὁ δὲ περὶ τῶν κατορθωμάτων.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Division of the Ethical Field · 10

II.7.2.10

Of discourse concerning impulse, one part concerns impulse in the specific sense, the other passions. For either every passion is an excessive impulse, or at any rate most passions, and also disorders, involve impulse.

Of discourse concerning action, one part concerns what inclines us toward certain actions, another what alienates us from certain actions, another gives an account of the causes that bring about certain dispositions or movements, another concerns practice, and another action in the specific sense, which bears the same name as the general category.¹⁵²

Division of the Ethical Field · 11

II.7.2.11

The division concerning what inclines us toward certain actions is divided into preceptive and exhortatory discourse; for some place exhortation under this heading as well. The division concerning what turns us away is called consolatory, and some call it discourse about passions. Of action in the specific sense, which bears the same name as the general category, one part concerns appropriate actions, the other completely right actions.¹⁵³

152.The first sentence places passions within the broader treatment of impulse, allowing the alternative formulations printed in the Greek. Ἀρρωστήματα are disorders or infirmities of the soul; the preceding [τὰ] is rejected by the editor and omitted from English. Action then names both a general field and a specific subdivision within it, a distinction expressed by ἰδίως and ὁμωνύμως. Ἄσκησις here is practice or training.

153.Καθήκοντα are appropriate or befitting actions; κατορθώματα are completely right actions, the stronger term in Stoic ethical classification. The translation keeps them distinct. “Discourse about passions” renders παθολογικός in an ethical sense, rather than modern medical pathology. The source notes that some classify exhortation here, whereas the preceding scheme also placed it under the general treatment of virtue.

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.

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