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.31.44–II.31.46

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Σωκράτους

II.31.44

Πανήγυρίς ἐστι ψυχῆς ἡ παιδεία· πολλὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῇ [ψυχῆς] θεάματα καὶ ἀκούσματα.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

II.31.45

Τοῖς μὲν σταδιοδρομοῦσιν ἐπὶ τῷ τέρματι τὸ βραβεῖον τῆς νίκης, τοῖς δὲ φιλοπονήσασιν ἐπὶ τοῦ γήρως τὸ πρωτεῖον τῆς φρονήσεως ἀπόκειται.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

II.31.46

Οὗτος ἰδὼν πλούσιον ἀπαίδευτον, ἔφη· «ἰδοὺ καὶ τὸ χρυσοῦν ἀνδράποδον».

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Socrates

II.31.44

Education is a festival for the soul:¹¹⁴⁸ for in it are many things to see and hear.¹¹⁴⁹

Socrates: From the same author

II.31.45

For runners, the prize of victory awaits at the finish; for those who have worked hard, the first prize of wisdom awaits in old age.¹¹⁵⁰

Socrates: From the same author

II.31.46

He saw a rich man without education¹¹⁵¹ and said, “Look, a golden slave too.”¹¹⁵²

1148.The printed heading is Socrates. Wachsmuth records Spengel’s proposal to read Isocrates, comparing Panegyricus 43, which praises the founders of Greek festivals. The comparison supplies a related festival theme, without establishing a verbatim source for this saying. The heading is retained as printed.

1149.Wachsmuth marks the second ψυχῆς, of the soul, for deletion following Meineke; it remains bracketed in the Greek and is omitted from the English. The first ψυχῆς is retained. Things seen and heard sustain the image of a festive gathering offering varied experiences.

1150.The comparison gives different finishing points to a footrace and a life of effort. Βραβεῖον is the victor’s prize; πρωτεῖον is a first prize or distinction. Φρόνησις here is wisdom or sound understanding, the reward of sustained effort. The same-author heading continues the attribution to Socrates from excerpt 44.

1151.The heading and the opening he continue the local attribution to Socrates. Wachsmuth’s apparatus records parallel collections assigning the saying to Socrates or Isocrates. These varying attributions do not establish who originally said it.

1152.Ἀνδράποδον is a slave regarded as property. The image makes wealth a golden covering for someone who lacks education; it does not state that the rich man was legally enslaved. The printed καί is retained as too.

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.