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Stobaeus, Volume II
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThe attested perfect verb says that an outcome and its conditions have been fated together. It explains a relation, rather than naming a separate abstract entity.
- In StobaeusThe reply to a fatalist includes keeping watch, fighting and sowing among the conditions of their corresponding outcomes, retaining its opening qualification of perhaps.
- In this editionExplain co-fated as fated together with. Do not substitute inevitable regardless of action, or infer that exertion alone guarantees the desired result.
- A place to readChapter 8 · Excerpt 25 · Passage 2 Read the reply after the sleeping watchmen objection, noting how each example joins an outcome to the activity or circumstances through which it occurs.
- English renderings
- has been co-fated; is fated together with
Meaning
The attested perfect verb says that something has been fated together with something else. Here it expresses the joint determination of an outcome and the conditions through which it occurs. This article explains the verbal expression rather than positing an unattested abstract noun.
Use in the book
In the excerpt assigned to Plutarch, an imagined objection says that watchmen can sleep if the naval station is fated not to be captured. The reply allows that the outcome may be fated, but says its manner and means are co-fated with it. Watchkeeping does not occur through sleeping, victory through flight, or harvesting without sowing suitable ground. The examples oppose using fate as an excuse to omit the relevant activity. They do not show that exertion guarantees success, or establish that every event is fated independently of the reply’s “perhaps.”
The objection imagines that a fated result makes vigilance unnecessary. The reply challenges that inference by restoring the means of accomplishment to the description of what is fated. Its examples include both human actions and circumstances: sowing concerns the cultivator, fertile soil the setting; hunting also requires a place where game exists. The point is therefore broader than effort alone. The same paragraph does not promise success whenever someone works hard, and its initial qualification prevents the reader from treating the reply as an unrestricted assertion about every event.
Places to read
- Chapter 8 · Excerpt 25 · Passage 123456The imagined fatalist argues that a fated result makes vigilance unnecessary.
- Chapter 8 · Excerpt 25 · Passage 22The response includes the necessary activity among the co-fated conditions.
Translation in this edition
“Co-fated” keeps the relation visible; explain it as “fated together with” rather than substituting “inevitable regardless of what one does.”
συγκαθείμαρται
Attested. Chapter 8 · Excerpt 25 · Passage 2; Wachsmuth II, printed pp. 158-159.
καθείμαρται μὲν ἴσως ἅπαντα ταῦτα, συγκαθείμαρται δὲ ἑκάστῳ τὸ διὰ τούτων καὶ τὸ ἐν τούτοις
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume II, printed pp. 158–159. The headword explicitly identifies an attested verbal expression. The supplied article later in the sentence is not needed to establish the verb’s occurrence or its relation to the examples.