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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordDiakrisis is separation or distinction.
- In StobaeusThe damaged report about Plotinus’s followers ends with a twofold distinction of opinion, while the physical survey pairs diakrisis with aggregation.
- In this edition“Distinction” suits opinions; “separation” suits constituent bodies.
- A place to beginA twofold distinction of opinion emerges from a preceding position.
- English renderings
- separation; distinction; discrimination
Meaning
Diakrisis is separation or distinction. Its objects determine whether it is a physical process or an intellectual differentiation.
Use in the book
The damaged report about Plotinus’s followers ends with a twofold distinction of opinion, while the physical survey pairs diakrisis with aggregation. The first divides accounts; the second separates constituents. Neither use by itself supplies the meaning of the other.
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Translation in this edition
“Distinction” suits opinions; “separation” suits constituent bodies.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 170, 384. The opening of I.49.43.6 lacks its governing construction and explicit antecedent; the missing wording is not invented.