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 31 · II.31.12.5

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II.31.12.5

κἀπιστήσῃ μισεῖν ἀγορὰν καὶ βαλανείων ἀπέχεσθαι, καὶ τοῖς αἰσχροῖς αἰσχύνεσθαι, κἂν σκώπτῃ τίς σε φλέγεσθαι· καὶ τῶν θάκων τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις ὑπανίστασθαι προσιοῦσιν, καὶ ⟨μὴ⟩ περὶ τοὺς σαυτοῦ γονέας σκαιουργεῖν, ἄλλο τε μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ποιεῖν, ὅτι τῆς Αἰδοῦς μέλλεις τἄγαλμ’ ἀναπλάττειν· μηδ’ εἰς ὀρχηστρίδος εἰσᾴττειν, ἵνα μὴ πρὸς ταῦτα κεχηνὼς μήλῳ βληθῇς ὑπὸ πορνιδίου τῆς εὐκλείας ἀποθραυσθείς· μηδ’ ἀντειπεῖν τῷ πατρὶ μηδέν, μηδ’ Ἰαπετὸν καλέσαντα μνησικακῆσαι τὴν ἡλικίαν ἐξ ἧς ἐνεοττοτροφήθης. —

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The Stronger Argument continued

II.31.12.5

And you will know to hate the marketplace and keep away from bathhouses, to be ashamed of shameful things and blush if someone mocks you, to rise from your seat when your elders approach, and ⟨not⟩ behave rudely toward your own parents, nor do anything else shameful, since you are going to shape an image of Modesty.¹⁰⁹⁵ Nor rush into a dancing girl’s house, lest, gaping at the spectacle, you be hit by an apple from a prostitute and chipped away from your good name.¹⁰⁹⁶ Nor contradict your father in anything, nor call him Iapetus and bear a grudge against the age that reared you in the nest. —¹⁰⁹⁷

1095.Αἰδώς is personified Modesty or moral regard, an ideal to be embodied. Φλέγεσθαι, to burn, here describes blushing under mockery. Supplied ⟨μή⟩ is marked as ⟨not⟩. Σκαιουργεῖν is to behave rudely or abusively toward the parents; the printed wording is retained.

1096.An ὀρχηστρίς is a female dancer or entertainer; the following πορνίδιον is a disparaging diminutive for a prostitute. The apple has an erotic role as an invitation or token of desire. The speaker warns that accepting such attention damages respectable reputation; the comic image chips that reputation away like a piece broken off.

1097.Iapetus, a figure of the ancient mythical generation, serves as a contemptuous label for an old man. The nest image in ἐνεοττοτροφήθης refers to being reared: the son is told to respect the older generation that brought him up. The closing dash introduces another interruption by the Weaker Argument.

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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