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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.23.1–II.31.23.2
Ancient Greek
p. 772Αἰσχίνου Σωκρατικοῦ
Οὗτός ἐστι Μιλτιάδης ὁ Στησαγόρου, ὃς παῖς μὲν ὢν ἤσκει Ὀλύμπια καὶ κρείττων ἦν τοὺς πόνους πονῶν ἢ παιδοτρίβης ἐπιτάττων· ἐκεῖ δὲ μείζους παῖδας αὑτοῦ καὶ πρεσβυτέρους κατεμαχέσατο καὶ ἀγωνιζόμενος ὑπὲρ τοῦ στεφάνου ἄκων ὑπὸ τοῦ παιδοτρίβου ἐξήχθη·
Αἰσχίνου — συνέχεια
ἔτι δὲ ἐπίτροποι αὐτοῦ ἐγένοντο οὔτε τὰς αὐτὰς ἡλικίας ἔχοντες οὔτε τοὺς αὐτοὺς τρόπους· καὶ τούτων ἁπάντων ἦν κατήκοος. Παιδαγωγὸς αὐτῷ ἠκολούθει οὐ πάνυ σπουδαῖος καὶ τούτῳ οὐδὲν πώποτε ἠναντιώθη. Ταῦτα μὲν παιδὶ ὄντι αὐτῷ ἐπιτετήδευται· ἐπεὶ δὲ μειράκιον ἤρχετο γίγνεσθαι, σιωπᾶν καλὸν ἡγήσατο εἶναι· σεσιώπηται αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς χαλκοῖς ἀνδριᾶσι. Τοῦ σώματος αὐτῷ καλὸν ἐδόκει εἶναι ἐπιμελεῖσθαι· ἐπιμεμέληται τούτου, ὥστ’ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν ἄριστα ἔχει τὸ σῶμα.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 773Aeschines the Socratic
This is Miltiades, the son of Stesagoras.1116 As a boy he trained for the Olympic contests, and his capacity for performing the hard work surpassed his trainer’s capacity for prescribing it. There he defeated boys bigger and older than himself, and while competing for the crown he was withdrawn by his trainer against his will.1117
Aeschines continued
Moreover, he had guardians who differed in age and character, and he was obedient to them all. An attendant of no great merit used to accompany him, and he never opposed him in anything.1118 Such was his conduct as a boy. When he began to become a young man, he considered it a fine thing to keep silent; he has kept quieter than bronze statues. He thought it a fine thing to care for his body; he has taken such care of it that even now he is in better physical condition than anyone else his age.1119
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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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