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 15 · II.15.heading–II.15.2

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Κεφάλαιον ΙΕʹ

II.15.heading

Περὶ τοῦ δοκεῖν καὶ τοῦ εἶναι καὶ ὅτι οὐ τῷ λόγῳ χρὴ κρίνειν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τῷ τρόπῳ· ἐκτὸς γὰρ ἔργου πᾶς λόγος περιττός.

Ἀστυδάμαντος Ἀλκμαίωνος

II.15.1

⟨Οὐ⟩ τοῦ δοκεῖν μοι, τῆς δ’ ἀληθείας μέλει.

Εὐριπίδου Ἱκέτισιν

II.15.2

Τυδέως δ’ ἔπαινον ἐν βραχεῖ θήσω μέγαν· φιλότιμον ἦθος, πλούσιον, φρόνημα δὲ ἐν τοῖσιν ἔργοις, οὐχὶ τοῖς λόγοις ἔχων.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 15

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Chapter 15

II.15.heading

On seeming and being, and that a person should be judged by character rather than speech; for all speech apart from action is superfluous.⁹⁷⁰

Astydamas, from Alcmaeon

II.15.1

Seeming is ⟨not⟩ my concern; truth is.⁹⁷¹

Euripides, from Suppliants

II.15.2

I shall give Tydeus great praise in brief:⁹⁷² a character rich in love of honor, with his pride in deeds, not in words.⁹⁷³

970.Τρόπος is manner or character, contrasted with λόγος, speech. The final sentence is printed as part of the heading here. The apparatus notes its absence from Photius’s corresponding list and compares a possible verse formulation; the wording printed in this heading is retained.

971.The supplied negative ⟨Οὐ⟩ is decisive and remains visible as ⟨not⟩. The attribution identifies Astydamas and the play Alcmaeon; this isolated tragic verse does not identify its speaker or establish the circumstances in which it was spoken.

972.The source cites Suppliants 901 and 907–908, bringing together the announcement of Tydeus’s praise and two later verses. The intervening lines are not printed in this anthology excerpt. Adrastus praises Tydeus in the play’s memorial account of the fallen warriors.

973.Φιλότιμος means eager for honor; πλούσιος literally means rich. The compressed description is rendered here as a character rich in love of honor. The local passage ends with ἔχων, having or possessing, which governs the descriptions, rather than the parallel play’s final ἴσον.

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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