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.31.92–II.31.93b

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Ancient Greek

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Διογένους

II.31.92

Ἡ παιδεία ὁμοία ἐστὶ χρυσῷ στεφάνῳ· καὶ γὰρ τιμὴν ἔχει καὶ πολυτέλειαν.

Ἰσοκράτους πρὸς Δημόνικον

II.31.93a

Πάντων μὲν ἐπιμελοῦ τῶν περὶ τὸν βίον, μάλιστα δὲ τὴν σαυτοῦ φρόνησιν ἄσκει· μέγιστον γὰρ ἐν ἐλαχίστῳ νοῦς ἀγαθὸς ἐν ἀνθρώπου σώματι.

⟨Τοῦ αὐτοῦ⟩

II.31.93b

Ἡγοῦ τῶν ἀκουσμάτων πολλὰ πολλῶν εἶναι χρημάτων κρείττω· τὰ μὲν γὰρ ταχέως ἀπολείπεται, τὰ δὲ πάντα τὸν χρόνον παραμένει· σοφία γὰρ μόνη τῶν κτημάτων ἀθάνατος.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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Diogenes

II.31.92

Education is like a golden crown, for it carries both honor and great expense.¹²¹⁹

Isocrates, To Demonicus

II.31.93a

Take care of everything that concerns your life, but above all exercise your own judgment; for a good mind in a human body is the greatest thing within the smallest compass.¹²²⁰

⟨From the same author⟩

II.31.93b

Regard many things learned as better than much money:¹²²¹ money soon runs out, but learning remains for all time; for wisdom alone among possessions is immortal.¹²²²

1219.Τιμή can mean honor or value, while πολυτέλεια is great expense or costliness. The comparison sets education’s distinction beside its cost; the saying does not describe the crown’s material value alone.

1220.To Demonicus 40, as identified by the printed reference. Φρόνησις is practical understanding or judgment, and ἄσκει calls for its exercise or training. The final image sets the greatness of a good mind within the small compass of the human body.

1221.Ἀκούσματα are things heard, including lessons or instruction. The Greek contrasts money that gives out with learning that remains. Its final feminine μόνη and ἀθάνατος agree with σοφία, wisdom; the English follows this local construction rather than changing it to the neuter forms recorded for Isocrates in the apparatus.

1222.To Demonicus 19. The supplied heading continues the Isocrates attribution of 93a; it is preserved in angle brackets in both languages. The same applies to the supplied heading of 93c.

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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