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.31.103–II.31.104

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Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

II.31.103

Ἡ παιδεία καθάπερ εὐδαίμων χώρα πάντα τὰ ἀγαθὰ φέρει.

II.31.104

Τῷ μὲν Ὀρέστῃ μαινομένῳ τὴν Ἠλέκτραν ὁ μῦθος, τῇ δὲ τῶν νέων ὁρμῇ τὴν εὐβουλίαν ὁ κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν λόγος παρίστησιν εἰς ἀντίληψιν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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II.31.103

Education, like a prosperous land, bears every good thing.¹²³⁸

II.31.104

Myth places Electra beside Orestes in his madness as a helper; philosophical discourse places good counsel beside youthful impulse as a helper.¹²³⁹

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.