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.15.22

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Εὐριπίδου Μηδείας

II.15.22

Ἦ πολλὰ πολλοῖς εἰμι διάφορος βροτῶν· ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει· γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ’ εὖ περιστελεῖν, τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν, ἔστι δ’ οὐκ ἄγαν σοφός.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 15

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Euripides, Medea

II.15.22

Indeed, I differ in much from many mortals.⁹⁹⁹ For in my eyes an unjust man gifted in speech incurs the heaviest penalty: boasting he can neatly cloak injustice with his tongue, he dares act the villain, but is not so very wise.¹⁰⁰⁰

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.