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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordDikastēs is a judge, someone who examines and decides a case.
- In StobaeusThe afterlife narrative presents judges questioning each arrival about the life lived and the practices followed while embodied.
- In this edition“Judge” is direct; preserve the distinction between inquiry and the eventual verdict.
- A place to beginJudges examine the whole life and particular pursuits of arriving souls.
- English renderings
- judge
Meaning
Dikastēs is a judge, someone who examines and decides a case.
Use in the book
The afterlife narrative presents judges questioning each arrival about the life lived and the practices followed while embodied. The impossibility of lying makes the Plain of Truth effective as a judicial setting. The term names the agents of examination, not the judgment or punishment itself.
Places to read
- I.49.47.4Judges examine the whole life and particular pursuits of arriving souls.
Translation in this edition
“Judge” is direct; preserve the distinction between inquiry and the eventual verdict.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 415. The named judges in the preceding unit are Minos and Rhadamanthys; the account’s assurance against lying belongs to its narrative conditions.