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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordNoeros describes what belongs to intellect or operates intellectually.
- In StobaeusThe argument about incorporeal objects says that intellectual things are gathered through thinking rather than found at an external material location.
- In this edition“Intellectual” fits the objects described here; “intellective” can foreground an active capacity in other constructions.
- A place to beginIntellectual realities are gathered by thought without an external material place.
- English renderings
- intellectual; intellective
Meaning
Noeros describes what belongs to intellect or operates intellectually. It is related to noētos, intelligible, but the two adjectives should not automatically be treated as identical.
Use in the book
The argument about incorporeal objects says that intellectual things are gathered through thinking rather than found at an external material location. Intellect contemplates itself in apprehending them. The word participates in an account of their relation to intellect; it does not locate them in a physical chamber inside the thinker.
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Translation in this edition
“Intellectual” fits the objects described here; “intellective” can foreground an active capacity in other constructions.
Noeros: intelligent and intellective
Noeros describes something endowed with intellect or operating intellectually. The report about Posidonius at I.1.29b.2 calls the divine breath intelligent and fiery. “Intelligent” suits this description of an active power. It does not make the breath expressly incorporeal, nor require every intellective adjective to denote an independent level in a metaphysical hierarchy.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 34–35, 314. The source’s “nowhere” denies material location, not existence. Several supplements and rejected words remain marked in the bilingual text.