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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 16–30 · II.24.heading–II.27.heading

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Κεφάλαιον ΚΔʹ

II.24.heading

Ὅτι ἐν οἷς πλημμελεῖ τις τὸ μεταμελεῖσθαι κάλλιστον.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΚΕʹ

II.25.heading

Περὶ λοιδορίας ὡς οὐκ ἀγαθόν.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΚϚʹ

II.26.heading

Ὅτι ἐν τῷ λοιδορεῖσθαι χρὴ σκοπεῖν μὴ τοῖς αὐτοῖς περιπεπτώκαμεν ἐλαττώμασι.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΚΖʹ

II.27.heading

Περὶ ἀνάγκης τῆς κατὰ τὸν βίον.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 16–30

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Chapter 24

II.24.heading

That when one has done wrong, regretting it is best.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁸

Chapter 25

II.25.heading

On verbal abuse, which is not good.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁹

Chapter 26

II.26.heading

That in exchanges of abuse we should consider whether we have fallen into the same faults.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁶⁰

Chapter 27

II.27.heading

On necessity in life.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁶¹

1058.Πλημμελεῖν is to err or act wrongly; μεταμελεῖσθαι is to regret what one has done. Κάλλιστον, literally finest or noblest, qualifies the act of regretting one’s own error. Only the heading is present.

1059.Λοιδορία is insulting or abusive speech. The heading evaluates it as οὐκ ἀγαθόν, not good. The missing chapter’s excerpts are not available here to develop that judgment.

1060.Λοιδορεῖσθαι can be middle, exchanging abuse, or passive, being reviled. The English leaves the speaker’s precise role in the quarrel open. The surviving heading calls for self-examination, but its missing chapter cannot clarify that role.

1061.Ἀνάγκη is necessity or constraint; κατὰ τὸν βίον places the topic in the sphere of life. The heading alone does not specify a doctrine of fate or explain what necessities the missing chapter discussed.

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.