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Stobaeus, Volume II
Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.
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Book II Chapters 16–30 · II.28.heading–II.30.heading
Ancient Greek
p. 740Κεφάλαιον ΚΗʹ
Ὅτι εὐκαίρως δεῖ πράττειν.
deest.
Κεφάλαιον ΚΘʹ
Περὶ τοῦ βούλεσθαι ὅτι οὐ δεῖ ὡς ἔτυχεν ἀναβάλλεσθαι.
deest.
Κεφάλαιον Λʹ
Ὅτι καὶ τὸ δυστυχῆσαι πολλάκις ἐπωφελὲς γίνεται καὶ μάλιστα τοῖς ἄφροσι.
deest.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 16–30
p. 741Chapter 28
That one should act at the right time.
[Text missing]1062
Chapter 29
On intention: that one should not put things off haphazardly.
[Text missing]1063
Chapter 30
That even suffering misfortune often proves beneficial, and especially to the foolish.
[Text missing]1064
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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.
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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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