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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

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Book II Chapter 4 · II.4.9–II.4.10

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Καλλιμάχου ⟨αἰτίων⟩ βʹ

II.4.9
Καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ τὰ μὲν ὅσα καρήατι τῆμος ἔδωκα ξανθὰ σὺν εὐόδμοις ἀβρὰ λίπη στεφάνοις, ἄπνοα πάντ’ ἐγένοντο παραχρῆμ’· ὅσσα τ’ ὀδόντων ἔνδοθι νεαίρην τ’ εἰς ἀχάριστον ἔδυ, καὶ τῶν οὐδὲν ἔμεινεν ἐς αὔριον· ὅσσα δ’ ἀκουαῖς εἰσεθέμην, ἔτι μοι μοῦνα πάρεστι τάδε.

Φιλήμονος ἐξ Ἀπόλιδος

II.4.10
Οὐχὶ μόνον οὗτος εὗρε πῶς λαλήσομεν αὑτοῖς, ἀπέχοντες πολὺν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων χρόνον, οὐδ’ ὃν τρόπον μηδέποτε μηδὲ εἷς πάλιν ἐπιλήσεθ’ ἡμῶν μηδέν, ἐμβλέψας δέ που τἀκ τοῦ χρόνου τοῦ παντὸς εἴσετ’· ἀλλὰ καὶ ψυχῆς ἰατρὸν κατέλιπεν τὰ γράμματα.
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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 4

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Callimachus from ⟨Causes⟩ Book Two

II.4.9

For all the delicate golden oils I put on my head then, along with fragrant garlands, immediately lost their scent; and whatever slipped inside my teeth and down into my ungrateful belly— none of that remained until tomorrow. But what I took in through my ears, that alone is still with me.106

Philemon from The Man without a City

II.4.10

This man discovered not only how we might speak to one another, though separated by a long stretch of time, and how none of us would ever again forget anything, but by looking at what is written would know the events of all time; he also left us writing as a physician for the soul.107

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About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.