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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.4a.6
Ancient Greek
p. 172Περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν · ἄλλως
Ἄλλως· Μόνον μὲν τὸ καλὸν ἀγαθόν· καθότι τῶν ὄντων οὐδὲν ἀγαθόν, εἰ μή τι μεταλάβοι τῆς ἀρετῆς, ὥσπερ ὁ δαλὸς καὶ ὁ σίδηρος τοῦ πυρός, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδὲν ἁπλῶς θερμόν· μετὰ δ’ ἄλλων ἀγαθῶν τῶν τριῶν γενῶν, ὅσον μετείληφεν αὐτῆς τὰ δύο, τὰ σωματικὰ σὺν τοῖς ἐκτός. Ὡς γὰρ τῆς σελήνης ἀφώτιστος μὲν ἡ οὐσία καθ’ αὑτήν, μεταλήψει δὲ τῆς ἡλιακῆς αὐγῆς φωτίζεται, οὕτως οὐδὲν ὃ μὴ μετέχει τῆς ἀρετῆς ἀγαθόν. Τοῖς γὰρ ἀνθρωπίνοις τὸ δύνασθαι ὠφελεῖν ἐκ τῶν θείων πάρεστιν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 173On Goods and Evils · Another Account
Another account: only the noble is good, since nothing that exists is good unless it shares in virtue, as the firebrand and iron share in fire, without which nothing is hot in an unqualified sense.191 It is likewise with the other goods of the three kinds, to the extent that the two, bodily goods together with external ones, have shared in virtue.192 For just as the moon’s substance is unlit in itself but is illuminated by sharing in the sun’s radiance, so nothing that does not participate in virtue is good. Human goods derive their capacity to benefit from the divine goods.
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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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