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  1. ε300Ἐθελοδουλίαvoluntary servitude… Plato, Symposium 184C (web address 1). The passage, anthologized by Stobaeus (3.5.53), uses the term figuratively, of a lover's "voluntary servitude" toward his beloved.Matched in noteshighshort
  2. λ594ΛίποιμιI might leave… Plato, Apology 29A (web address 1), a passage quoted by Stobaeus, though other extant possibilities include Euripides and Callimachus.Matched in noteshighshort
  3. α2937Ἀπατεῶνοςof a cheat… quoted from somewhere -- perhaps the fragment of Democritus in Stobaeus 3.14.8. which includes the phrase a)patew=nos e)/rgon; but see also (e.g.) under psi 61.Matched in noteshighshort
  4. δ1275Διοιδοῦσαswelling… from somewhere: perhaps Chrysippus' definition of xo/los (also noted by Stobaeus) as o)rgh\ dioidou=sa.Matched in noteshighshort
  5. μ852Μειονεκτεῖfalls short, is short of… three instances (1.19, 1.29, 4.1), two of them quoted by Stobaeus. cf. mu 853, mu 854.Matched in noteshighshort
  6. μ611Μενθῆρεςmentheres… of of the epic poet Panyassis (pi 248), preserved in Stobaeus, has menqh/rhs (genitive). Hesychius mu849 has the nominative singular menqh/rh glossed fronti/s, as well as the dative plural menqh/rais glossed meri/mnais "cares"; Orion …Matched in noteshighshort
  7. κ150Κακίαvice, evil… & 95 [1] For this distinction see (besides Diog. Laert.) Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.58.14 - 59.3 (ed. Wachsmuth). [2] For the Socratic antecedent of this position (i.e. that vices are proper to or belong to …Matched in noteshighmedium
  8. λ843Λύπηpain, distress, vexation… This is a Stoic definition of pain, slightly modified (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.90, ed. Wachsmuth). [2] These words belong to the Stoic Apollodorus (see Diogenes Laertius 7. 118). The excellent person is the sage …Matched in noteshighshort
  9. κ149Κακὴ μὲν ὄψιςface [is] bad… Menander fr. 441 Kock (5 Sandbach) -- though NB: in Stobaeus this quotation is attributed to another play (Dagger) by another poet of New Comedy, Philemon (fr. 21 Kock and K.-A.); cf. in any …Matched in noteshighshort
  10. κ76Καθῆκόνdue action; what is appropriate… one which when done has a reasonable justification (D.L. 7.107; Stobaeus, Extracts 2.85, 14-15). See also kappa 77; and for discussion on the topic cf. Engberg-Pedersen (1990) 126-140 and Annas (1993) 96-98. Besides kappa …Matched in noteshighshort
  11. ε1864Ἐξυβρίζονταviolating… including one in Plato, Laws 691C (a passage quoted by Stobaeus). [2] Adler tentatively attributes this quotation to Arrian's Parthica (p. 31.106 Roos). On Dekebalos, see delta 189, delta 344.Matched in noteshighshort
  12. ε3858Ἐφέντεςyielding… instances are extant: see e.g. fr.564 of Euripides (preserved by Stobaeus), pa/nt' e)fe/ntes h(donh=|. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] (The same participle in the accusative plural.) For this sense cf. epsilon 3865, epsilon 3866.Matched in noteshighshort
  13. ε3401Εὐδαῖμονhappy… belongs to the Stoic Zeno: see Diogenes Laertius 7.88 (and Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.77.21, ed. Wachsmuth). [4] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentary on Aristotle's Topica 142.22; also in Ps.Zonaras.Matched in noteshighshort
  14. ε3070Ἔρωςlove… a)taraci/a). See Diogenes Laertius 10.118. [2] On this point see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.91, 15-16, ed. Wachsmuth (= SVF 395). This echoes the canonical Stoic definition of love, which is literally quoted below in the …Matched in noteshighmedium
  15. δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… te/xnai) with dispositions and virtues sounds Stoic in character (cf. Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.63.6-7, 2.67.5-12, and especially 2.70.21-71, 6, ed. Wachsmuth). Like the Platonic Socrates, the Stoics were willing to accept the thesis that virtue …Matched in noteshighmedium
  16. ε2212Ἐπησθέντεςdelighted in… Neoplatonic philosopher Eusebius of Myndus (fr. 1 Mullach) quoted by Stobaeus (3.1.103); it has the aorist passive optative, first person singular. To judge by his fragments Eusebius wrote in a literary Ionic unusual for …Matched in noteshighshort
  17. ε3735Εὐσέβειαpiety… entry draws on Diogenes Laertius 7.119 (Stoic doctrine). [1] cf. Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.62 (ed. Wachsmuth). [2] Of temples. [3] Aelian fr. 265 Domingo-Forasté (267 Hercher); cf. alpha 3795. [4] Sophocles, Philoctetes 1443-4 (here crucially …Matched in noteshighmedium
  18. κ77Καθῆκονdue action; what is appropriate… reporting the issue of "due action" in Stoic philosophy, see Stobaeus, Extracts 2.85, 13ff. (ed. Wachsmuth) and Cicero, De finibus 3.33-34.] [2] The version of Diog.Laert. 7.108 is quite different here and the interpretation …Matched in noteshighmedium
  19. α403Ἀγχίνοιαtight-wittedness… similarly in other lexica. [2] Diogenes Laertius 7.93. See also Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.61, 2-4 (ed. Wachsmuth), where "tight-wittedness" (a)gxi/noia) is called "knowledge" (e)pisth/mh) instead of "disposition of character" (e(/cis). However, according to the Stoic …Matched in noteshighshort
  20. δ1631Δυσηνίουςhard to bridle, hard to rein, refractory… possibilities include Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.13, and Epictetus in Stobaeus, Florilegium 4.8.84. [1] This definite article should probably be deleted. [2] h(ni/a de\ ta\ lw=ra: it occurs in Hesychius epsilon594 (a)ch/nioi), perhaps from …Matched in noteshighshort
  21. α3683Ἀπράγμωνbusiness-free… defined as a raving (or "delirium") due to wine (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.109, ed. Wachsmuth). The wise person is free from pain because pain is an emotional state (pathos: "an irrational contraction of the …Matched in noteshighmedium
  22. μ618ΜένωνMenon, Meno… is superior to them and supported by an extract in Stobaeus. Meno was a mercenary general of Aristippus the Aleuad of Larisa (PW 1.1372-74; Gehrke pp. 189-90), who belonged to the pro-Persian faction in …Matched in noteshighmedium
  23. κ2711ΚυνισμόςCynicism… road (syntomos hodos) to virtue", and 6.104. Compare also also Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.114, 24-25 (ed. Wachsmuth): "(the Stoics) say that the wise man lives a Cynic lifestyle, this being equal to remaining in Cynicism, …Matched in noteshighshort
  24. ε2341Ἐπιθυμίαappetite… Or 'contrary to what is convenient', as suggested by the Stobaeus version of the same topic (Eclogae. 9.91, 10-11 [ed. Wachsmuth]). [3] D.L.'s version is different: 'with regard to excellent people' (peri\ spoudai/ous), which …Matched in noteshighmedium
  25. κ2712ΚυνισμόςCynicism… real philosophical "school". [3] See zeta 79; Diogenes Laertius 7.87; Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.62.7-8, 77.16-19 (ed. Wachsmuth); Cicero, de finibus 3.61. [4] This passage reproduces, with minor changes, Diogenes Laertius 6.104-105. The Cynic lifestyle described …Matched in noteshighmedium
  26. δ1650Δυσκολοκάμπτους ᾠδάςintricate-twisted songs… chi 296. Clouds 961-1008 are quoted in the Anthology of Stobaeus. [1] This gloss is presumed (by Adler and others) to stem from the scholia to Clouds 971. [2] See phi 761 for this …Matched in noteshighshort
  27. ε3404Εὐδαιμονίαhappiness… himself and of his own affairs, which is madness (mani/a)" Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.68.18-19, ed. Wachsmuth). [3] This material (up to the end of the entry) = Xenocrates fr. 81 Heinze. Xenocrates (xi 42), head …Matched in noteshighmedium
  28. α1654Ἀμπλάκημαfailure… the Diogenes Laertius text and in a passage contained in Stobaeus (Eclogae, 2. 106, 21-107, 9, ed. Wachsmuth): he who makes a larger moral error and he who makes a smaller one are both …Matched in noteshighmedium
  29. ε3633Εὐπάθειαgood affective state… or an impulse which is excessive (see Diogenes Laertius 7.110; Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.39.5-9; 2.88.8-10, ed. Wachsmuth, and pi 27), the sage person will necessarily be free of emotion (he will be apathes; Diogenes Laertius …Matched in noteshighmedium
  30. λ257Λεόντιος μοναχόςLeontios the monk… a man from Chios (Aelian, Varia Historia 7.20) or Keos (Stobaeus, Florilegium 3.12.19).Matched in noteshighmedium

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