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John Stobaeus

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 Chapters 10–14 · II.10.heading–II.13.heading

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Κεφάλαιον Ιʹ

II.10.heading

Ὁποῖον χρὴ εἶναι τὸν φιλόσοφον.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΙΑʹ

II.11.heading

Ὅτι χρὴ σέβειν τὸ θεῖον.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΙΒʹ

II.12.heading

Ὅτι τοῖς εὐσεβέσι καὶ δικαίοις βοηθεῖ τὸ κρεῖττον.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΙΓʹ

II.13.heading

Περὶ μαντικῆς καὶ ὡς εἴη ἀναγκαία τῷ βίῳ [καὶ] ἡ τῶν μελλόντων πρόγνωσις.

deest.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 10–14

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Chapter 10

II.10.heading

What the philosopher should be like.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁵

Chapter 11

II.11.heading

That one should revere the divine.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁶

Chapter 12

II.12.heading

That the higher power helps the pious and just.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁷

Chapter 13

II.13.heading

On divination, and how foreknowledge of future events is necessary for life.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁸

965.Wachsmuth prints the Latin notice deest, is missing, beneath this Greek heading. The heading survives; the excerpts that once belonged to the chapter are not supplied here.

966.Τὸ θεῖον is the divine. This is a preserved chapter heading followed by the editor’s missing-text notice, not an excerpt or an additional saying attributed to an author.

967.Τὸ κρεῖττον, literally what is superior, is rendered the higher power. The heading names the topic of the missing chapter; no surviving excerpts follow it here to show how that topic was developed.

968.Μαντική is divination; πρόγνωσις is foreknowledge. The rejected second [καί], and, remains in Greek and is omitted from English. With that deletion, foreknowledge is the subject of is necessary, rather than a disconnected additional topic. Only the heading survives here.

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.