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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3b.2
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p. 140Περὶ τέλους · ὅροι · συνέχεια
Κρεῖττον οὖν ἦν εἰπεῖν ἀντὶ τοῦ “συμπληρούμενον” “ἐνεργούμενον”, ἵνα τὸ χρηστικὸν τῆς ἀρετῆς ἐμφαίνηται. Τοῦτο δ’ οἱ κατ’ Ἐπίκουρον φιλοσοφοῦντες οὐ προσδέχονται λέγειν “ἐνεργούμενον”, διὰ τὸ παθητικὸν ὑποτίθεσθαι τὸ τέλος, οὐ πρακτικόν (ἡδονὴ γάρ)· ὅθεν καὶ τὴν ἔννοιαν ἀποδιδόασι τοῦ τέλους “τὸ οἰκείως διατιθέναι ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ πρὸς αὐτὸ χωρὶς τῆς ἐπ’ ἄλλο τι ἁπάσης ἐπιβολῆς”.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 141On the End · Definitions 2
It would therefore have been better to say “actualized” instead of “made complete,” so that virtue’s exercise might be made apparent.160 Those who follow Epicurus do not accept the expression “actualized,” because they posit the end as something experienced, rather than something enacted (for it is pleasure). Hence they also give this account of the end: “To bring about of itself a congenial disposition toward itself, without any application toward something else.”161
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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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