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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordEniautos is a year, understood as a returning cycle as well as a measure of duration.
- In StobaeusHermippus personifies the year as a round figure containing everything within itself and generating the speakers as it circles the earth.
- In this edition“Year” is direct; specify which celestial cycle is meant in astronomical reports.
- A place to beginThe year is imagined as a circular, generative living figure.
- English renderings
- year
Meaning
Eniautos is a year, understood as a returning cycle as well as a measure of duration.
Use in the book
Hermippus personifies the year as a round figure containing everything within itself and generating the speakers as it circles the earth. Its lack of beginning or end belongs to the circular image. This is poetic representation, not a technical claim that every measured year has no boundaries.
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Translation in this edition
“Year” is direct; specify which celestial cycle is meant in astronomical reports.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 99, 107. The isolated poem does not identify the speakers who say that the year brings “us” into being.