Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.26.20–II.7.26.22

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Ἱερὰ καὶ κλῆροι

II.7.26.20

Πολιτικὸν δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οὐχ ἧττον καὶ τὸ τὰ ἱερὰ τῶν θεῶν ἐν τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις ἱδρύσθαι τόποις· καὶ τὸ τῆς τῶν ἰδιωτῶν χώρας τὸ μὲν ἕτερον πρὸς ταῖς ἐσχατιαῖς διατετάχθαι, τὸ δ’ ἕτερον πρὸς τῇ πόλει, ἵνα δύο κλήρων ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ νεμηθέντων, ἀμφότερα τὰ μέρη τῆς χώρας εὐσύνοπτα ὑπάρχῃ.

Συσσίτια καὶ κοινὴ παιδεία

II.7.26.21

Χρήσιμον δὲ καὶ τὸ νομοθετεῖν συσσίτια ποιεῖσθαι καὶ τὸ περὶ τῆς κοινῆς παιδείας τῶν τέκνων σπουδάζειν·

Γάμοι καὶ ἡλικίαι

II.7.26.22

καὶ τὸ πρὸς τὴν ῥώμην τῶν σωμάτων καὶ τελειότητα δεῖν μήτε νεωτέρων ἄγαν μήτε πρεσβυτέρων τοὺς γάμους ποιεῖσθαι, ἀτελῆ γὰρ γίνεσθαι κατ’ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς ἡλικίας καὶ τελείως ἀσθενῆ τὰ ἔκγονα.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

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Sanctuaries and Allotments

II.7.26.20

No less than the other matters, it is also a political concern that sanctuaries of the gods be established in the most conspicuous places,⁷⁷¹ and that one part of the land belonging to private citizens be assigned near the outer districts and the other near the city, so that, with two allotments distributed to each person, both parts of the territory may be easily surveyed.⁷⁷²

Common Meals and Common Education

II.7.26.21

It is also useful to legislate the holding of common meals and to devote care to the common education of children;⁷⁷³

Marriage and Age

II.7.26.22

and that, for the strength and full development of bodies, marriages must be contracted neither when people are too young nor when they are too old;⁷⁷⁴ for at both ages the offspring are incompletely developed and wholly weak.⁷⁷⁵

771.Ἱερά are sanctuaries or sacred places. Ἐπιφανέστατοι means most conspicuous or prominent; the text does not specify a particular height, architectural plan, or dedication. The phrase no less than the other matters retains the comparative emphasis of οὐχ ἧττον.

772.Ἐσχατιαί are the outer or border districts of the territory. Each person receives two κλῆροι, allotments, one in each part. The stated purpose is εὐσύνοπτα, easily surveyed or overseen. That local wording remains, rather than being replaced with a different political motive from Aristotle’s parallel account. Ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ, to each person, is the reading printed in the text.

773.Συσσίτια are common or communal meals, an organized institution of shared dining. Κοινὴ παιδεία is common education; the source gives no curriculum or detailed educational organization here. The semicolon continues the sequence of political provisions into the following marriage rule.

774.This clause continues the preceding list of useful political provisions. The two comparative age terms are governed by the sense of excess expressed by ἄγαν, too much. The epitome gives no numerical ages, and none are supplied from Aristotle’s fuller discussion.

775.Ἀτελῆ is incompletely developed and τελείως ἀσθενῆ wholly weak. Both descriptions remain as the ancient account’s physiological claim. The play between τελειότητα, full development, and τελείως, wholly, is grammatical rather than an additional medical explanation.

About This Reading Edition

The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.

Historical Text and Translation

Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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