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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.126.7
Ancient Greek
p. 960Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Πρὸ παντὸς δὲ σκοπεῖν τὸν λόγον χρή, ᾧ ἕπεσθαι τὰς φιλοσοφούσας ἀξιοῦμεν, εἰ δύναται θρασείας ποιεῖν ὁ τὴν αἰδῶ μέγιστον ἀποφαίνων ἀγαθόν· εἰ ζῆν ἰταμώτερον ἐθίζει ὁ καταστολὴν πλείστην ὑφηγούμενος· εἰ μὴ διδάσκει σωφρονεῖν ὁ κακὸν ἀποδεικνὺς ἔσχατον τὴν ἀκολασίαν· εἰ μὴ προτρέπει οἰκονομεῖν ὁ παριστὰς ἀρετὴν εἶναι τὴν οἰκονομικήν. καὶ στέργειν δὲ . . . καὶ αὐτουργεῖν ὁ τῶν φιλοσόφων λόγος παρακαλεῖ τὴν γυναῖκα.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 961Musonius continued
Above all, we must examine the teaching that we expect women who practice philosophy to follow. Can it make them brazen, when it declares a sense of shame the greatest good? Can the teaching that advocates the greatest restraint accustom them to live more shamelessly?1410 Does it not teach temperance when it shows licentiousness to be the gravest evil? Does it not urge household management when it presents that skill as a virtue?1411 And philosophers’ teaching urges the woman to accept . . . and to work with her own hands.1412
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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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