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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3c.2–II.7.3c.3
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p. 144Περὶ τέλους · ὑποτελίς
Ὑποτελὶς δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ πρῶτον οἰκεῖον τοῦ ζῴου πάθος, ἀφ’ οὗ κατήρξατο συναισθάνεσθαι τὸ ζῷον τῆς συστάσεως αὑτοῦ, οὔπω λογικὸν ⟨ὂν⟩ ἀλλ’ ἄλογον, κατὰ τοὺς φυσικοὺς καὶ σπερματικοὺς λόγους, ὥσπερ τὸ θρεπτικὸν καὶ τὸ αἰσθητικόν, καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἕκαστον ῥίζης τόπον ἐπέχει, οὐδέπω φυτοῦ· γενόμενον γὰρ τὸ ζῷον ᾠκειώθη τινὶ πάντως εὐθὺς ἐξ ἀρχῆς, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὑποτελίς, κεῖται δ’ ἐν τινι τῶν τριῶν· ἢ γὰρ ἐν ἡδονῇ ἢ ἐν ἀοχλησίᾳ ἢ ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις κατὰ φύσιν.
Περὶ τέλους · ὑποτελίς · συνέχεια
Πρῶτα δ’ ἐστὶ κατὰ φύσιν περὶ μὲν τὸ σῶμα ἕξις, κίνησις, σχέσις, ἐνέργεια, δύναμις, ὄρεξις, ὑγίεια, ἰσχύς, εὐεξία, εὐαισθησία, κάλλος, τάχος, ἀρτιότης, αἱ τῆς ζωτικῆς ἁρμονίας ποιότητες· περὶ δὲ τὴν ψυχὴν εὐσυνεσία, εὐφυΐα, φιλοπονία, ἐπιμονή, μνήμη, τὰ τούτοις παραπλήσια, ὧν οὐδέπω τεχνοειδὲς οὐδέν, σύμφυτον δὲ μᾶλλον. Τὴν δ’ ὑποτελίδα τῶν ἀρχαίων οὐδεὶς ὠνόμασε καίτοι τὸ πρᾶγμα γιγνωσκόντων.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 145On the End · Preliminary End 1
A preliminary end is the living creature’s first congenial affection, from which it began to be aware of its own constitution, ⟨being⟩ not yet rational but nonrational, in accordance with natural and seminal principles, as are the nutritive and perceptive faculties. Each of these occupies the place of a root, not yet of a plant. For on coming into being the creature was necessarily attached to something immediately from the beginning; this is the preliminary end. It lies in one of three things: pleasure, freedom from disturbance, or the primary things in accordance with nature.164
On the End · Preliminary End 2
The primary things in accordance with nature are, for the body, condition, movement, posture, activity, capacity, desire, health, strength, good bodily state, acuity of sense, beauty, speed, soundness, and the qualities of vital harmony; for the soul, quickness of understanding, natural aptitude, love of effort, perseverance, memory, and similar things. None of these yet has the character of an art; they are rather innate. None of the ancients named the preliminary end, although they knew the thing itself.165
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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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