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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.20.18
Ancient Greek
p. 490Μεγαλοψυχία καὶ μεγαλοπρέπεια
μεγαλόψυχόν τε οὔτε τὸν μεγάλων πάντων ἀξιοῦντα ἑαυτὸν οὔτε τὸν μηδενὸς ὅλως, ἀλλὰ τὸν τὸ δέον ἐφ’ ἑκάστου λαμβάνοντα καὶ εἰς τὸ κατ’ ἀξίαν. μεγαλοπρεπῆ τε οὔτε τὸν πάντοτε καὶ ἔνθα μὴ δεῖ λαμπρὸν οὔτε τὸν μηδαμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὸν κατὰ καιρὸν ἁρμόττοντα εἰς ἕκαστον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 491Greatness of Soul and Magnificence
Great of soul is neither the person who thinks himself worthy of every great thing nor the person who thinks himself worthy of nothing at all, but the person who takes what is due in each case, according to worth.659 Magnificent is neither the person who displays splendor always, even where he should not, nor the person who never does so anywhere, but the person who fits each occasion as the right moment requires.660
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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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