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.15.36–II.15.38

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Δημοκρίτου

II.15.36

Ἔργα καὶ πρήξιας ἀρετῆς, οὐ λόγους ζηλοῦν χρεών.

Σωκράτους

II.15.37

Σωκράτης ἐρωτηθείς, τίνων μάλιστα ὁ λόγος ἰσχύει, „ὧν ἡ πρᾶξις“, εἶπε, „συνακολουθεῖ τῷ λόγῳ.“

⟨Εὐ⟩ξιθέου

II.15.38

⟨Εὐ⟩ξίθεος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος τοὺς χρηστοὺς μὲν ἐν τοῖς ⟨λόγοις⟩, ἀχρήστους δὲ κατὰ τὸν βίον ὁμοίους ἔφη εἶναι τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἐνυπνίοις.

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Democritus

II.15.36

It is virtue’s deeds and actions that one should emulate, not words.¹⁰¹⁸

Socrates

II.15.37

When Socrates was asked whose speech has the greatest force, he said, “That of those whose action accompanies their speech.”¹⁰¹⁹

⟨Eu⟩xitheus

II.15.38

⟨Eu⟩xitheus of Athens said that those who are good in ⟨words⟩¹⁰²⁰ but worthless in their lives are like pleasant dreams.¹⁰²¹

1018.The unusual printed πρήξιας is retained; the apparatus flags the manuscript form with sic. It functions as actions alongside ἔργα, deeds. Ζηλοῦν urges emulation or striving after these practical expressions of virtue.

1019.Συνακολουθεῖ means follows along with or accompanies. Action supplies the force of persuasive speech by keeping pace with it. This is a reported saying assigned to Socrates; the excerpt does not name the questioner.

1020.Both the heading and the narrative name begin with supplied ⟨Εὐ⟩, rendered ⟨Eu⟩. Supplied ⟨λόγοις⟩, words, completes the contrast with the way of life described in the following clause.

1021.Ἀγαθοῖς ἐνυπνίοις means good or pleasant dreams. The comparison sets an appealing appearance against the lack of corresponding value in conduct. The verbal opposition χρηστούς and ἀχρήστους contrasts being good or useful with being worthless.

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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