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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.76–II.31.78
Ancient Greek
p. 818Ἀντισθένης
Ἀντισθένης ἐρωτηθεὶς ὑπό τινος, τί διδάξει τὸν υἱόν, εἶπεν, «εἰ μὲν θεοῖς μέλλει συμβιοῦν, φιλόσοφον, εἰ δὲ ἀνθρώποις, ῥήτορα».
Σόλων
Σόλων ἐπετίμα τινὶ κυβεύοντι· τοῦ δὲ λέγοντος περὶ μικροῦ παίζειν, «ἀλλὰ τὸ ἔθος οὐ μικρόν», ἔφη.
Ὑπερίδης
Ὑπερίδης ὁ ῥήτωρ ἔλεγε μὴ δύνασθαι καλῶς ζῆν, μὴ μαθόντα ⟨τὰ⟩ καλὰ τὰ ἐν τῷ βίῳ.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 819Antisthenes
When Antisthenes was asked by someone what he would teach his son, he said, “If he intends to live with gods, a philosopher; but if with human beings, an orator.”1197
Solon
Solon was rebuking someone who was playing dice. When the man said he was playing for small stakes, Solon replied, “But the habit is no small thing.”1198
Hyperides
Hyperides the orator used to say that one cannot live well without having learned ⟨the⟩ noble things in life.1199
Socrates
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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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