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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.18.15
Ancient Greek
p. 454Ἀτυχία καὶ εὐτυχία
Φευκτὸν δὲ τὸν βίον γίνεσθαι τοῖς μὲν ἀγαθοῖς ἐν ταῖς ἄγαν ἀτυχίαις, τοῖς δὲ κακοῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἄγαν εὐτυχίαις. Πλεῖον γὰρ ἁμαρτάνειν· δι’ ὃ καὶ μηδὲ κυρίως εὐτυχεῖς εἶναι [καὶ] τοῖς φαύλοις.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 455Misfortune and Good Fortune
Life becomes something to be avoided for the good in extreme misfortunes, and for the bad even in extreme good fortune. For they err more; hence, for the base, such fortunes are not even fortunate in the proper sense.607
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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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