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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 15 · II.15.47.3
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p. 728Τέλητος — συνέχεια
Καὶ γὰρ πρωτοστάτην σε καταστήσουσι καὶ μονομαχεῖν κελεύσουσι καὶ ἵνα λάχῃς μηχανήσονται καὶ λαχόντος ἐπιχαρήσονται καθάπερ τῷ Αἴαντι· εἶτα τί οἴει πείσεσθαι, δειλὸς μὲν ὤν, κινδυνεύων δέ; καὶ ἐὰν αἰχμάλωτος γένῃ δοκῶν ἀνδρεῖος εἶναι πέδας ἕξεις μεγάλας καὶ χειροπέδας, καὶ οὐθεὶς σοι μὴ πιστεύσει, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατακεκλεισμένος ἔσῃ, κἂν βασανίζωσί σε πολλὰς λήψῃ, καὶ λέγων τὴν ἀλήθειαν οὐ μὴ πιστευθήσῃ, ἀλλὰ δόξεις μωκᾶσθαι διὰ τὸ δοκεῖν καρτερικὸς εἶναι· καὶ κελεύσουσί σε δέρειν καὶ ἐπιτείνειν καὶ παροπτᾶν. ὅρα πόσα λήψῃ δοκῶν ἀνδρεῖος εἶναι καὶ καρτερικός· σὺ δὲ ἐκεῖνο μὲν προσφέρῃ, ταῦτα δὲ ἀποκρύπτεις, ὥσπερ οἱ ῥήτορες.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 15
p. 729Teles continued
Yes—and they will put you in the front rank, order you to fight in single combat, contrive to have you draw the lot, and rejoice when you do, just as with Ajax. What do you think will happen then, when you are a coward but face danger?1043 And if you are taken captive while reputed courageous, you will have heavy fetters and handcuffs. No one will trust you; instead you will also be kept locked up. If they torture you, you will receive many blows; even when you tell the truth you will not be believed, but will be thought to be mocking them because you seem able to endure. They will order you to be beaten, stretched on the rack, and roasted. See how much you will receive from seeming courageous and able to endure! Yet you put forward that advantage and conceal these consequences, like the orators.1044
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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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