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.31.41–II.31.43

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II.31.41

Οἵῳ τις ἂν τὸ πλεῖστον τῆς ἡμέρας συνῇ, τοιοῦτον ἀνάγκη γενέσθαι καὶ αὐτὸν τοὺς τρόπους.

Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας ζʹ

II.31.42

Κόποι καὶ ὕπνοι μαθήμασι πολέμιοι.

Ἐν ταὐτῷ

II.31.43

Τά τε χύδην μαθήματα ἐν τῇ παιδείᾳ γενόμενα τούτοις συνακτέον εἰς σύνοψιν οἰκειότητός τε ἀλλήλων τῶν μαθημάτων καὶ τῆς τοῦ ὄντος φύσεως.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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II.31.41

One is bound to become, in character, like the person with whom one spends most of the day.¹¹⁴⁵

Plato, Republic VII

II.31.42

Fatigue and sleep are enemies of learning.¹¹⁴⁶

Plato: From the same work

II.31.43

And the subjects encountered piecemeal in their education must be brought together for them into an overview of the kinship of the subjects with one another and with the nature of being.¹¹⁴⁷

1145.This saying has no author heading. Wachsmuth’s apparatus records Spengel’s reconstruction of two verses, which Spengel attributed to Menander, and also suggests that Antiphon might have said it. The translation follows the printed prose without adopting either attribution. Τρόποι means character or manner of conduct.

1146.Republic VII.537B. Socrates is explaining why further study is postponed during two or three years of compulsory physical training. Κόποι encompasses exertion and its weariness, rendered fatigue here. The sentence belongs to the discussion of successive stages in the students’ training.

1147.Republic VII.537C. The passage concerns selected twenty-year-olds continuing their training. Χύδην means piecemeal; σύνοψις is an integrated view. The English takes the subjects’ kinship to extend both to one another and to the nature of being. The separate Platonic text includes παισίν, as children, which is absent from Wachsmuth’s main text and is not inserted here.

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.