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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.111–II.31.113
Ancient Greek
p. 884Ξενοκράτης, ὁπότε τις αὐτῷ σχολάζειν ἤθελεν οὐδενὸς τῶν ἐγκυκλίων μαθημάτων μετειληφώς, «ἄπιθι», εἶπε, «λαβὰς οὐκ ἔχεις πρὸς φιλοσοφίαν· δεῖ γὰρ προμεμαλάχθαι διὰ τούτων τὴν ψυχήν».
Ἰσοκράτης τοῖς μαθηταῖς παρεκελεύετο μὴ πραγματολογεῖν ἀλλὰ ⟨τὰ⟩ πράγματα παρέχειν τοῖς ἀκροωμένοις.
Ἀγησίλαος ἐρωτηθείς, τίνα χρὴ τοὺς ἐλευθέρους παῖδας ἐκμανθάνειν, «ἃ αἰσχρόν», ἔφη, «γέροντας μὴ εἰδέναι».
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 885Whenever someone who had received none of the general studies wished to study with Xenocrates, he said, “Go away: you have no handles for philosophy. The soul must first have been softened through these studies.”1290
Isocrates urged his pupils not to talk about matters, but to put ⟨the⟩ matters themselves before their hearers.1291
Asked what free boys ought to learn thoroughly, Agesilaus said, “Things it is shameful not to know in old age.”1292
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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.
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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