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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3c.1
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p. 142Περὶ τέλους · σκοπὸς καὶ τέλος
Τὸ μὲν οὖν ὄνομα τοῦ τέλους εὑρίσκεται καὶ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ·
Οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγέ τι φημὶ τέλος χαριέστερον εἶναι.Ἀλλ’ οὗτος μὲν δημοτελὲς εἰσήγαγε τὸ τέλος, Πλάτων δὲ διέστιξε πρῶτος τὸ κατ’ ἄνδρα καὶ βίον ἰδιάζον ἔν τε τῷ Τιμαίῳ κἂν τῷ Πρωταγόρᾳ.
Καὶ ⟨σημειωτέον⟩ γε τὴν τοῦ σκοποῦ διαφορὰν πρὸς τὸ τέλος. Καὶ ἔστι σκοπὸς μὲν τὸ προκείμενον εἰς τὸ τυχεῖν, οἷον ἀσπὶς τοξόταις· τέλος δ’ ⟨ἡ⟩ τοῦ προκειμένου τεῦξις. Βούλονται γὰρ ἐνέργημα ἡμέτερον εἶναι πρὸς τὸ τέλος.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 143On the End · Target and End
The word “end” is found also in Homer:
For I say there is no more delightful end.
But he introduced the end as something shared by the people, whereas Plato first distinguished the end particular to an individual and a life, both in the Timaeus and in the Protagoras.162
We must also ⟨note⟩ the difference between the target and the end. The target is what is set before one to be hit, as a shield is for archers; the end is ⟨the⟩ attainment of what is set before one. For they require an activity of ours in relation to the end.163
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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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