Editing Stobaeus (section)

===''Eclogues''===
The first two books consist for the most part of extracts conveying the views of earlier poets and prose writers on points of physics, dialectics, and ethics.<ref name="mason"/> The first book was divided into sixty chapters, the second into forty-six, of which the manuscripts preserve only the first nine.<ref name="mason"/> Some of the missing parts of the second book (chapters 15, 31, 33, and 46) have, however, been recovered from a 14th-century [[wikt:gnomology|gnomology]].{{sfn|Scott|Ferguson|1936|pp=82–85}}

His knowledge of physics — in the wide sense which the Greeks assigned to this term — is often untrustworthy.<ref name="eb1911"/> Stobaeus betrays a tendency to confound the dogmas of the early [[Ionian philosophy|Ionian philosophers]], and he occasionally mixes up [[Platonism]] with [[Pythagoreanism]].<ref name="eb1911"/> For part of the first book and much of the second, it is clear that he depended on the (lost) works of the [[Peripatetic school|Peripatetic]] philosopher [[Aetius (philosopher)|Aetius]] and the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosopher [[Arius Didymus]].<ref name="eb1911"/>