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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.123.3
Ancient Greek
p. 916Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Τὴν ἀνδρείαν φαίη τις ἂν ἴσως μόνοις προσήκειν τοῖς ἀνδράσιν· ἔχει δὲ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ταύτῃ. Δεῖ γὰρ ἀνδρίζεσθαι καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα ⟨καὶ⟩ καθαρεύειν δειλίας τήν γε ἀρίστην, ὡς μήθ’ ὑπὸ πόνου μήθ’ ὑπὸ φόβου κάμπτεσθαι· εἰ δὲ μή, πῶς ἔτι σωφρονήσει, ἐάν τις ἢ φοβῶν ἢ προσάγων πόνους βιάσασθαι δύνηται αὐτὴν ὑπομεῖναί ⟨τι⟩ τῶν αἰσχρῶν. Δεῖ δὲ δὴ καὶ ἀμυντικῶς ἔχειν τὰς γυναῖκας, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία φαίνεσθαι μέλλουσι κακίους ἀλεκτορίδων καὶ ἄλλων ὀρνίθων θηλειῶν, αἳ πολὺ μείζοσι ζῴοις ἑαυτῶν ὑπὲρ τῶν νεοττῶν διαμάχονται. Πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἂν ἀνδρείας αἱ γυναῖκες δέοιντο; Ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἀλκῆς τῆς δι’ ὅπλων μέτεστιν αὐταῖς, ἐδήλωσε τὸ Ἀμαζόνων γένος, ἔθνη πολλὰ δι’ ὅπλων καταστρεψάμενον· ὥστ’ εἴ τι ἐνδεῖ πρὸς τοῦτο ταῖς ἄλλαις γυναιξίν, ἀνασκησία μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ μὴ πεφυκέναι ⟨πρὸς ἀνδρείαν αἰτία ἂν εἴη. Εἰ μὲν οὖν τὰς αὐτὰς εἶναι πέφυκεν⟩ ἀρετὰς ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικός, ἀνάγκη πᾶσα καὶ τροφὴν καὶ παιδείαν τὴν αὐτὴν προσήκειν ἀμφοῖν. Παντὶ γὰρ δὴ ζῴῳ καὶ φυτῷ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν τὴν προσαγομένην ὀρθῶς ἐμποιεῖν χρὴ τὴν ἐκείνῳ προσήκουσαν ἀρετήν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 917Musonius continued
Someone might perhaps say courage belongs to men alone; that too is not so. A woman must also act courageously ⟨and⟩ be free from cowardice—at least the best woman—so as not to bend under pain or fear. Otherwise, how will she remain temperate if someone can, by threats or inflicting pain, force her to endure ⟨something⟩ shameful?1340 Women must also be able to defend themselves, unless, by Zeus, they are to seem worse than hens and other female birds, which fight animals far larger than themselves for their young. How, then, would women not need courage? The Amazons, who subdued many peoples by arms, showed that women also share in armed prowess.1341 Thus, if other women lack anything here, lack of training rather than lack of natural fitness ⟨for courage would be the cause. If, then, there are by nature the same⟩ virtues for man and woman, the same upbringing and education must of necessity suit both. For the care given to every animal and plant must properly instill the excellence appropriate to it.1342
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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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