Quotes:Stobaeus, Johannes

Zirkoff, Boris

Stobaeus, Johannes. Greek writer who derived his surname apparently from being a native of Stobi in Macedonia. Of his personal history nothing is known, but he probably belongs to the latter half of the 5th century a.d. His Eclogae and *Florilegium or Sermones are a collection of extracts from upward of five hundred Greek writers, the works of the greater part of which have perished. The best ed. of the Sermones is that of T. Gassford, Oxford, 1822, 4 vols.; and of the Eclogae the one by A. H. L. Heeren, Gottingen, 1792-1801, 4 vols. Vide Compiler’s Note appended to H.P.B.’s essay on “Egyptian Magic,” p. 133 of the present volume.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 398