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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 1 · II.1.29.2–II.1.29.3
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p. 30Ξενοφῶντος · συνέχεια
Πότε γάρ, ὦ Αἰσχίνη, Σωκράτους ἀκήκοέ τις οὐρανίων πέρι λέγοντος ἢ γραμμὰς εἰς ἐπανόρθωσιν παραινοῦντος μανθάνειν; Μουσικῆς ⟨μὲν⟩ γὰρ ἴσμεν αὐτὸν μέχρις ὤτων ξυνιέντα. Διετέλει δὲ ἑκάστοτε αὐτὸς λέγων τί καλὸν καὶ τί ἀνδρεία τε καὶ δικαιοσύνη καὶ αἱ ἄλλαι ἀρεταί. Ἀνθρώπινα γοῦν ταῦτα ἀγαθὰ ἐκάλει· τὰ δ’ ἄλλα ἢ ἀδύνατα ἀνθρώποις ἁλῶναι ἔφασκεν ἢ μύθων εἶναι συγγενῆ, μετὰ ὀφρῦος σοφιστῶν ⟨παίγνια⟩ διεξιόντων.
Ξενοφῶντος · συνέχεια
Καὶ οὐκ ἔλεγε μὲν ταῦτα, οὐκ ᾔδει δὲ πράττειν. Παυσάσθωσαν οὖν ἐλεγχόμενοι ⟨ἢ⟩ πρὸς τὸ εἰκὸς ἴτωσαν, οἷς Σωκράτης οὐκ ἤρεσκεν, ᾧ ζῶντι μὲν ὁ θεὸς σοφίαν ἐμαρτύρησεν· οἱ δὲ ἐκτείναντες τῆς μετανοίας ἀποκάθαρσιν οὐχ εὗρον. Τὸ δὲ καλὸν ἄρα, Αἰγυπτίου ἠράσθησαν, καὶ τῆς Πυθαγόρου τερατώδους σοφίας, ὧν τὸ μὲν περιττὸν καὶ τὸ μὴ μόνιμον ἐπὶ Σωκράτει ἤλεγχεν ἔρως τυραννίδος καὶ ἀντὶ λιτῆς διαίτης Σικελιῶτις γαστρὸς ἀμέτρου τράπεζα.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 1
p. 31Xenophon, Letter to Aeschines · 2
For when, Aeschines, has anyone heard Socrates speaking about heavenly things, or urging people to learn geometrical figures as a means of improvement? As for music, we know that his understanding extended as far as his ears. But he himself constantly discussed what is noble, and what courage, justice, and the other virtues are. These, at any rate, he called human goods. The other subjects, he said, were either beyond human reach or akin to myths—⟨playthings⟩ that sophists expounded with an air of lofty importance.40
Xenophon, Letter to Aeschines · 3
Nor did he say these things without knowing how to put them into practice. Let those who were dissatisfied with Socrates stop, then, when they are refuted, ⟨or⟩ turn to what is reasonable. While he was alive, the god bore witness to his wisdom; those who killed him found no cleansing from their remorse. Yet here is the fine thing: they fell in love with an Egyptian and with the monstrous wisdom of Pythagoras. Their excess and their failure to remain constant to Socrates were exposed by a love of tyranny and, in place of a simple way of life, a Sicilian table for a boundless appetite.41
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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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