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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordApodeixis is a showing or demonstration offered to establish a claim.
- In StobaeusIn the Phaedrus excerpt, Socrates undertakes to show that divine madness benefits lover and beloved.
- In this edition“Proof” is natural in the dialogue; “demonstration” makes the technical noun recognizable without specifying an absent logical form.
- A place to beginThe promised demonstration defends the benefit of divinely given love.
- English renderings
- demonstration; proof; showing
Meaning
Apodeixis is a showing or demonstration offered to establish a claim. The form and standards of proof must be learned from the passage.
Use in the book
In the Phaedrus excerpt, Socrates undertakes to show that divine madness benefits lover and beloved. He contrasts the proof’s reception by the clever and by the wise. This rhetorical setting should not be reduced to a formal syllogistic definition: what is to be shown and who can recognize it are both part of the argument.
Places to read
- I.9.8The promised demonstration defends the benefit of divinely given love.
Translation in this edition
“Proof” is natural in the dialogue; “demonstration” makes the technical noun recognizable without specifying an absent logical form.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 113. The passage defends a particular divine madness; the next excerpt distinguishes it from illness-related disturbance.