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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.123.4
Ancient Greek
p. 918Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ἢ εἰ μὲν ἔδει αὐλεῖν δύνασθαι παραπλησίως ἄνδρα καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ εἰ τοῦθ’ ἑκατέρῳ αὐτῶν ἀναγκαῖον ἦν πρὸς τὸν βίον, ἀμφοτέρους ἂν ἐπ’ ἴσον τὴν αὐλητικὴν τέχνην ἐξεδιδάσκομεν, καὶ εἰ κιθαρίζειν ἔδει ἑκάτερον, . . .· ἀμφοτέρους δὲ εἰ δεῖ γενέσθαι ἀγαθοὺς τὴν ἀνθρώπῳ προσήκουσαν ἀρετὴν καὶ φρονεῖν ὁμοίως δύνασθαι καὶ σωφρονεῖν καὶ ἀνδρείας μετέχειν καὶ δικαιοσύνης μηδὲν ἧττον θατέρου θάτερον, οὐκ ἄρ’ ὁμοίως ἑκάτερον παιδεύσομεν; οὐδὲ τὴν τέχνην, ἀφ’ ἧς γένοιτ’ ἂν ἄνθρωπος ἀγαθός, ἐπ’ ἴσον ἀμφοτέρους διδάξομεν; Ἀλλὰ χρὴ οὕτω ποιεῖν καὶ οὐχ ἑτέρως.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 919Musonius continued
Or, if man and woman had to be able to play the aulos alike, and this were necessary for each in life, we would teach both the art of aulos-playing equally; and if each had to play the kithara, . . .1343 But if both must become good in the virtue proper to a human being, equally able to exercise understanding and be temperate, and share in courage and justice, neither one less than the other, shall we not educate each alike? Shall we not also teach both equally the art by which a person might become good?1344 Rather, we must do this, and not otherwise.1345
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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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