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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.4
Ancient Greek
p. 938Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Τοιοῦτου δ’ ὄντος τοῦ γένους τοῦ τῆς ἀποδείξεως, ἐπειδὴ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἱ μὲν ὀξύτεροι οἱ δ’ ἀμβλύτεροί εἰσι καὶ οἱ μὲν ἐν ἔθεσι κρείττοσιν, οἱ δὲ ἐν χείροσι τεθραμμένοι, οἱ μὲν ἤθους ἢ φύσεως ὄντες χείρονος, πλειόνων δέοιντ’ ἂν ἀποδείξεων καὶ πραγματείας μείζονος, ὥστε δέξασθαι ταυτὶ τὰ δόγματα καὶ τυπωθῆναι κατὰ ταῦτα, καθάπερ οἶμαι καὶ τὰ πονηρὰ τῶν σωμάτων, ὁπόταν μέλλῃ καλῶς ἕξειν, πάνυ πολλῆς ἐπιμελείας δεῖται· ὅσοι δὲ τῶν νέων εὐφυέστεροι καὶ ἀγωγῆς μετεσχηκότες κρείττονος, οὗτοι ῥᾷόν τε καὶ θᾶττον καὶ δι’ ὀλίγων ἀποδείξεων συναινοῖεν ἂν τοῖς λεγομένοις ὀρθῶς καὶ ἀκολουθήσειεν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 939Musonius continued
Since proof is of this kind, and since some people are sharper and others duller, and some have been reared in better habits and others in worse, those of worse character or nature would need more proofs and greater effort to accept these teachings and be shaped in accordance with them.1376 In the same way, I think, bodies in poor condition need a great deal of care if they are to be well.1377 But young people who are more gifted and have received a better upbringing would assent more easily and quickly to what is rightly said, and follow it, through a few proofs.1378
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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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