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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 1 · II.1.31.2
Ancient Greek
p. 36Ἀρριανοῦ Ἐπικτητείου · συνέχεια
Μή τι οὖν καὶ τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς παράγγελμα παρέλκον ἐστί, τὸ γνῶθι σαυτόν; — Τοῦτο δὲ μὲν οὔ φησι. — Τίς οὖν ἡ δύναμις αὐτοῦ; Εἰ χορευτῇ τις παρήγγελλε τὸ γνῶναι ἑαυτόν, οὐκ ἂν, εἰ τῇ προστάξει προσείχε, τὸ ἐπιστραφῆναι | καὶ τῶν συγχορευτῶν καὶ τῆς πρὸς αὐτοὺς συμφωνίας φησίν; εἰ δὲ ναύτῃ; εἰ δὲ στρατιώτῃ;
Πότερον οὖν ὁ ἄνθρωπος αὐτὸς ἐφ’ αὑτοῦ πεποιῆσθαί σοι δοκεῖ ζῷον, ἢ πρὸς κοινωνίαν; — ⟨Πρὸς κοινωνίαν.⟩ — Ὑπὸ τίνος; — Ὑπὸ τῆς φύσεως. — Τίνος οὔσης καὶ ποίας; — Διοικούσης τὰ ὅλα. — Καὶ πότερον ⟨καταληπτοῦ⟩ οὔσης ἢ μή; — Ταῦτα οὐκέτι ἀναγκαῖον πολυπραγμονεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 1
p. 37Arrian’s Epictetan discourse · 2
“Then is the injunction at Delphi, ‘Know yourself,’ also superfluous?”
He says it is not.
“What, then, is its force? If someone instructed a dancer in a chorus to know himself, would that not mean, if he attended to the instruction, paying attention | also to his fellow dancers and to his harmony with them? And what if the instruction were given to a sailor? Or to a soldier?46
“Do you think, then, that a human being has been made a creature for himself alone, or for community?”
“⟨For community.⟩”
“By whom?”
“By nature.”
“What is nature, and what is it like?”
“It governs the whole.”
“And is it ⟨comprehensible⟩ or not?”
“There is no further need to investigate these matters.”47
Socrates
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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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