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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.122.3
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p. 908Περὶ παίδων ἀγωγῆς — συνέχεια
προάγουσι δὲ αὐτοῖς ἐνταῦθα, ὃ χρὴ προηγεῖσθαι παντὸς [τοῦ] ὀρθοῦ βίου, τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς αἰσχροῖς αἰσχύνην καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς καλοῖς φιλοτιμίαν ἐντίθησι, δι’ ὧν ἀπάγονται μὲν πάντων τῶν αἰσχρῶν καὶ εὐλάβειάν τινα πρὸς αὐτὰ κτῶνται, ἐφίενται δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ πρὸς αὐτὰ σύντονον ὁρμὴν προσλαμβάνουσι· μετὰ δὴ ταῦτα προστάγματα τινα νουθετητικά, μικρὰ μὲν ὄντα τοῖς ῥήμασι, μεγάλην δέ τινα δύναμιν τοῖς τηλικούτοις παρεχόμενα, οἷον τὸ «δεῖ» καὶ ποτε «οὐ δεῖ» καὶ τὸ «μέχρι πόσου;» καὶ «ποῖόν τι τὸ ἄριστόν ἐστι [μέτρον];» καὶ «τίς τὰ τοιαῦτα;» συμμετρίαν αὐτοῖς ἐναρμόζει τὴν πρὸς ἀλλότριον λόγον συνταττομένην, οἷον τοῦ νομοθέτου καὶ διδασκάλου· καὶ τό γε δὴ κράτιστόν ἐστι τὰ οἰκεῖα παραγγέλματα καὶ νουθετήματα ⟨τὰ⟩ φέροντα πρὸς ἑκάστην ἀρετὴν παραδιδόναι δεόντως, τὰ μὲν ἐν κοιναῖς γνώμαις, τὰ δ’ ἐν ἔργων ἀσκήσει, τὰ δ’ ἐν τῇ τῶν λόγων μελέτῃ, τὰ δ’ ἐν ταῖς ὑποθήκαις περὶ τῶν πρακτέων ἢ μὴ πρακτέων, τὰ δ’ ἐν ταῖς τῆς ζωῆς κατασκευαῖς.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 909On the Upbringing of Children continued
As they advance at this stage, education instills in them what must precede every right life: shame at shameful deeds and ambition for noble ones. Through these, they are drawn away from all shameful things and acquire a certain caution toward them, while they desire good things and gain a vigorous impulse toward them.1328 Next, certain admonitory injunctions—short in words but powerful for children of that age, such as “One must,” sometimes “One must not,” “How far?”, “What sort of thing is best?” and “Who does such things?”—establish in them a measure attuned to another’s reason, such as a lawgiver’s and a teacher’s.1329 Most important is to hand down properly the appropriate commands and admonitions ⟨that⟩ lead toward each virtue: some in general maxims, some in the practice of deeds, some in the study of discourses, some in advice on what to do or not do, and some in the arrangements of life.1330
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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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