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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.8
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p. 946Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
τὸν δὲ μαθητὴν ἐντετάσθαι πρὸς τὰ λεγόμενα καὶ σκοπεῖν μὲν ὅπως μὴ λάθῃ ψεῦδός τι παραδεξάμενος· τῶν δὲ ἀληθῶν μὴ μὰ Δία πολλὰς ζητεῖν ἀποδείξεις ἀκούειν, ἀλλ’ ἐναργεῖς· καὶ ἅπερ ἂν πεισθῇ τῶν παραινουμένων ἑαυτῷ εἶναι καὶ ἀληθῆ, τούτοις ἐπακολουθεῖν ἐν τῷ βίῳ. Οὕτω γὰρ μόνως ἔσται τις ἐκ φιλοσοφίας ὠφελημένος, ἂν οἷς παραδέχεται λόγοις οὖσιν ὑγιέσι τὰ ἔργα παρέχηται συνῳδά.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 947Musonius continued
The pupil, in turn, must apply himself intently to what is said and watch that he does not unwittingly accept anything false.1388 As for truths, by Zeus, he should seek to hear clear proofs, rather than many. Whatever recommendations he is persuaded apply to himself and are true, he must follow in his life.1389 For only in this way will anyone have benefited from philosophy: if his deeds harmonize with the sound arguments he accepts.1390
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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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