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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.30.2

Ancient Greek

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Ῥούφου ἐκ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου Περὶ φιλίας · συνέχεια

II.8.30.2

Τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντα οὐκ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν ἐποιήσατο. Οὐκοῦν καὶ ἡμᾶς συμψήφους χρὴ τῷ θεῷ γενέσθαι καὶ ταύτῃ διελόντας τὰ πράγματα, τῶν μὲν ἐφ’ ἡμῖν πάντα τρόπον ἀντιποιεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ μὴ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν ἐπιτρέψαι τῷ κόσμῳ, καὶ εἴτε τῶν παίδων δέοιτο, εἴτε τῆς πατρίδος, εἴτε τοῦ σώματος, εἴτε ὁτουοῦν, ἀσμένους παραχωρεῖν.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8

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Rufus from Epictetus’s On Friendship · Continuation

II.8.30.2

But all other things he made not up to us. Therefore we too must agree with god and, dividing things in this way, lay claim in every way to what is up to us, entrust what is not up to us to the cosmos, and gladly yield whatever it may need, whether our children, our country, our body, or anything whatsoever.818

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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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