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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.5
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p. 940Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ὅτι δ’ οὕτως ἔχει ταῦτα, γνοίημεν ἂν ῥᾳδίως, εἰ νοήσαιμεν μειράκιον ἢ νεανίαν, τὸν μὲν ἐν τρυφῇ πάσῃ τεθραμμένον καὶ τό τε σῶμα τεθηλυμμένον καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἐκλελυμένον ὑπὸ ἐθῶν ἀγόντων εἰς μαλακίαν, ἔτι δὲ νωθῆ παρεχόμενον καὶ δυσμαθῆ τὴν φύσιν· τὸν δ’ αὖ Λακωνικῶς πως ἠγμένον καὶ τρυφᾶν οὐκ εἰθισμένον καὶ καρτερεῖν μεμελετηκότα καὶ τῶν λεγομένων ὀρθῶς εὐήκοον ὄντα· εἶτα τοὺς δύο τούτους νεανίας εἰ θείημεν ἀκούοντας φιλοσόφου λέγοντος περὶ θανάτου, περὶ πόνου, περὶ πενίας, περὶ τῶν ὁμοίων, ὡς οὐ κακῶν ὄντων· πάλιν δ’ αὖ περὶ ζωῆς, περὶ ἡδονῆς, περὶ πλούτου, περὶ τῶν παραπλησίων τούτοις, ὡς οὐκ ἀγαθά ἐστιν, ἆρά γε ὁμοίως ἄμφω προσήσονται τοὺς λόγους καὶ παραπλησίως ἑκάτερος ⟨ἂν⟩ πίθοιτο τοῖς λεγομένοις; Οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 941Musonius continued
We could readily recognize that this is so if we pictured two youths or young men: one reared in every luxury, softened in body and enfeebled in soul by habits tending toward softness, and also naturally dull and slow to learn; the other brought up in a somewhat Spartan manner, unused to luxury, practiced in endurance and receptive to what is rightly said.1379 Then suppose we set these two young men to hear a philosopher speaking about death, hardship, poverty and the like as things that are not bad; and again about life, pleasure, wealth and similar things as not being goods.1380 Will both accept the arguments equally, and ⟨would⟩ each be similarly persuaded by what is said? One cannot say so.1381
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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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