Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.5b2.2–II.7.5b2.3

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p. 188

Αἱ ὑποτεταγμέναι ἀρεταί

II.7.5b2.2

Τῇ μὲν οὖν φρονήσει ὑποτάττεσθαι εὐβουλίαν, εὐλογιστίαν, ἀγχίνοιαν, νουνέχειαν, ⟨εὐστοχίαν,⟩ εὐμηχανίαν· τῇ δὲ σωφροσύνῃ εὐταξίαν, κοσμιότητα, αἰδημοσύνην, ἐγκράτειαν· τῇ δὲ ἀνδρείᾳ καρτερίαν, θαρραλεότητα, μεγαλοψυχίαν, εὐψυχίαν, φιλοπονίαν· τῇ δὲ δικαιοσύνῃ εὐσέβειαν, χρηστότητα, εὐκοινωνησίαν, εὐσυναλλαξίαν.

Αἱ ὑπὸ φρόνησιν ἀρεταί

II.7.5b2.3

Εὐβουλίαν μὲν οὖν εἶναι λέγουσιν ἐπιστήμην τοῦ ποῖα καὶ πῶς πράττοντες πράξομεν συμφερόντως· εὐλογιστίαν δὲ ἐπιστήμην ἀνταναιρετικὴν καὶ συγκεφαλαιωτικὴν τῶν γινομένων καὶ ἀποτελουμένων· ἀγχίνοιαν δὲ ἐπιστήμην εὑρετικὴν τοῦ καθήκοντος ἐκ τοῦ παραχρῆμα· νουνέχειαν δὲ ἐπιστήμην ⟨τῶν χειρόνων καὶ βελτιόνων· εὐστοχίαν δὲ ἐπιστήμην⟩ ἐπιτευκτικὴν τοῦ ἐν ἑκάστῳ σκοποῦ· εὐμηχανίαν δὲ ἐπιστήμην εὑρετικὴν διεξόδου πραγμάτων·

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 189

The Subordinate Virtues

II.7.5b2.2

Under practical wisdom fall good deliberation, sound calculation, quickness of mind, discernment, ⟨sound aim,⟩ and resourcefulness. Under temperance fall orderliness, propriety, modesty, and self-control. Under courage fall endurance, confidence, greatness of soul, stoutheartedness, and love of effort. Under justice fall piety, kindness, good fellowship, and fair dealing.²¹¹

The Virtues under Practical Wisdom

II.7.5b2.3

They say that good deliberation is knowledge of what to do, and how to do it, so that we shall act advantageously. Sound calculation is knowledge that weighs against one another and sums up what is happening and being accomplished.²¹² Quickness of mind is knowledge that finds the appropriate action at once. Discernment is knowledge ⟨of what is worse and better; sound aim is knowledge⟩ that attains the target in each case. Resourcefulness is knowledge that finds a way through difficulties.²¹³

211.The following definitions determine the senses of these compact names. “Sound aim,” εὐστοχία, is supplied in the list by Wachsmuth in view of the definition he restores below. The list preserves several distinct virtues that ordinary English might group together as courage or good sense. In particular, confidence and stoutheartedness render θαρραλεότης and εὐψυχία, while greatness of soul renders μεγαλοψυχία.

212.“Weighs against one another” renders the difficult printed ἀνταναιρετικήν, paired with συγκεφαλαιωτικήν, “summing up.” Wachsmuth’s apparatus records competing readings and conjectures; the English follows his printed pair as a process of comparative reckoning and summation. “Act advantageously” renders συμφερόντως; it does not by itself restrict the advantage to private financial gain.

213.The angle brackets contain both the missing object of discernment and the beginning of the definition of sound aim, restored from a parallel cited in the apparatus. They do not enclose the whole final definition. “At once” renders ἐκ τοῦ παραχρῆμα, and “target” renders σκοπός; the latter remains distinct from τέλος, “end.” Resourcefulness concerns finding a way through a difficult situation.

About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

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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