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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.11k.3
Ancient Greek
p. 338Φιλολογία φιληκοΐα καὶ προτροπή
Μηδὲ φιλόλογον εἶναι τὸν φαῦλον μηδὲ φιλήκοον, παρὰ τὸ μηδ’ ἀρχὴν παρεσκευάσθαι πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὀρθῶν λόγων παραδοχὴν διὰ τὴν ὑπείκουσαν ἐκ τῆς διαστροφῆς ἀφροσύνην, παρὰ τὸ μήτε προτετράφθαι τινὰ τῶν φαύλων μήτε προτρέπειν πρὸς ἀρετήν· τὸν γὰρ προτετραμμένον ἢ προτρέποντα ἑτέρους ἕτοιμον εἶναι δεῖ πρὸς τὸ φιλοσοφεῖν, τὸν δ’ ἕτοιμον ἀνεμποδίστως ἔχειν, μηδένα ⟨δὲ⟩ τῶν ἀφρόνων εἶναι τοιοῦτον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 339Love of Learning Listening and Exhortation
The base person is neither a lover of learning nor a lover of listening, because he has not even begun to prepare himself to receive right accounts, owing to the folly arising from distortion.445 No base person has been turned toward virtue or turns others toward it. For someone who has been turned toward it, or turns others, must be ready to practice philosophy, and someone ready must be unimpeded; ⟨but⟩ no foolish person is like this.446
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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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