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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.123.7
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p. 924Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Καὶ μὴν τὸν παιδευόμενον ὀρθῶς, ὅστις ἂν ᾖ, εἴτε ἄρρην εἴτε θήλεια, ἐθιστέον μὲν ἀνέχεσθαι πόνου, ἐθιστέον δὲ μὴ φοβεῖσθαι θάνατον, ἐθιστέον δὲ μὴ ταπεινοῦσθαι πρὸς συμφορὰν μηδεμίαν· δι’ ὅσων ἂν τις εἴη ἀνδρεῖος. Ἀνδρείας δὲ μικρῷ πρότερον ἐδείχθη δεῖν μετεῖναι καὶ γυναιξίν. Ἔτι τοίνυν πλεονεξίαν μὲν φεύγειν, ἰσότητα δὲ τιμᾶν καὶ εὐποιεῖν μὲν θέλειν, κακοποιεῖν δὲ μὴ θέλειν ἄνθρωπον ὄντα ἀνθρώπους, ἔστι μὲν δίδαγμα κάλλιστον καὶ δικαίους ἐπιτελεῖ τοὺς μανθάνοντας· τί δὲ μᾶλλον ἄνδρα μεμαθηκέναι χρὴ ταῦτα ἢ γυναῖκα; εἰ γὰρ νὴ Δία πρέπει δικαίας εἶναι γυναῖκας, καὶ ταὐτὰ δεῖ μεμαθηκέναι ἄμφω τά γε κυριώτατα καὶ μέγιστα. Εἰ γάρ τί που μικρὸν ὁ μὲν εἴσεται, ἡ δὲ οὔ, ἢ ἀνάπαλιν ἡ μὲν εἴσεται, ὁ δὲ οὔ, τεχνίτου τινὸς ἐχόμενον, οὔπω τοῦτο διάφορον ἀποφαίνει τὴν ἑκατέρου παιδείαν· μόνον περὶ μηδενὸς τῶν μεγίστων ἕτερος ἕτερα μεμαθηκέτω, ἀλλὰ ταὐτά.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 925Musonius continued
Anyone receiving a proper education, whoever it may be, male or female, must be trained to endure hardship, not fear death, and not be crushed by any misfortune: through all these things a person could be courageous. A little earlier it was shown that women too must share in courage.1352 Further, to shun greed, honor equality, and, as a human being, wish to benefit other humans and not to harm them is a most noble lesson and makes learners just. Why should a man have learned these things any more than a woman? For, by Zeus, if women ought to be just, then both must have learned the same things, at least the most decisive and important matters.1353 If, in some small matter within an artisan’s province, he will know something and she will not, or conversely she will know and he will not, that does not yet show their education to be different. Only let neither have learned different things from the other about any of the most important matters, but the same.1354
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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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