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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.4a.2–II.7.4a.3
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p. 168Περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν · Πλάτων
Πλάτων δὲ τοιαύτῃ χρῆται διαιρέσει, θήσω δὲ κατὰ λέξιν ἐκ τοῦ πρώτου τῶν Νόμων καὶ διὰ τὸ κάλλος τῆς φράσεως καὶ διὰ τὴν σαφήνειαν· “Διττὰ δ’ ἀγαθά ἐστι, τὰ μὲν ἀνθρώπινα, τὰ δὲ θεῖα, ἤρτηται δ’ ἐκ τῶν θείων θάτερα· καὶ ἐὰν μὲν δέχηταί τις τὰ μείζονα, παρίσταται καὶ τὰ ἐλάττονα· εἰ δὲ μή, στέρεται ἀμφοῖν. Ἔστι δὲ τὰ μὲν ἐλάττονα, ὧν ἡγεῖται μὲν ὑγίεια, κάλλος δὲ δεύτερον, τὸ δὲ τρίτον ἰσχὺς εἴς τε δρόμον καὶ εἰς τὰς ἄλλας πάσας κινήσεις τῷ σώματι. τέταρτον δὲ δὴ πλοῦτος οὐ τυφλός, ἀλλ’ ὀξὺ βλέπων, ἄν περ ἅμα ἕπηται φρονήσει.
Περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν · Πλάτων · συνέχεια
Ὁ δὴ πρῶτον αὖ τῶν θείων ἡγεμονοῦν ἐστιν ἀγαθῶν, ἡ φρόνησις· δεύτερον δὲ μετὰ νοῦ σώφρων ψυχῆς ἕξις· ἐκ δὲ τούτων μετ’ ἀνδρείας κραθέντων τρίτον ἂν εἴη δικαιοσύνη, τέταρτον ἀνδρεία. Ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἐκείνων ἔμπροσθεν τέτακται φύσει, καὶ δὴ καὶ τῷ νομοθέτῃ τακτέον οὕτως.”
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 169On Goods and Evils · Plato 1
Plato uses the following division. I shall set it down word for word from the first book of the Laws, both for the beauty of its expression and for its clarity:187 “Goods are of two kinds, human and divine, and the former depend upon the divine. If someone receives the greater goods, the lesser are present as well; otherwise he is deprived of both. The lesser goods are these: health leads, beauty is second, and third is strength for running and every other movement of the body. Fourth is wealth, which is not blind but sees keenly, provided that it follows practical wisdom.
On Goods and Evils · Plato 2
The first leader among the divine goods is practical wisdom; second is a temperate disposition of the soul accompanied by intelligence. From these, blended with courage, justice would be third, and courage fourth. All these are naturally ranked before the former goods, and the lawgiver too must rank them in this way.”188
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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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