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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.26.6–II.7.26.7
Ancient Greek
p. 534Ἀρχὴ καὶ μέρη τῆς οἰκονομικῆς
Τούτου δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν κατὰ φύσιν ἔχειν τὸν ἄνδρα. Τὸ γὰρ βουλευτικὸν ἐν γυναικὶ μὲν χεῖρον, ἐν παιδὶ δ’ οὐδέπω, περὶ δούλους ⟨δ’⟩ οὐδ’ ὅλως· τὴν δ’ οἰκονομικὴν φρόνησιν, διοικητικὴν οὖσαν αὐτοῦ τε ⟨οἴκου⟩ καὶ τῶν κατ’ οἶκον, οἰκείαν ἀνδρὸς ὑπάρχειν. Ταύτης δὲ τὸ μὲν εἶναι πατρικόν, τὸ δὲ γαμικόν, τὸ δὲ δεσποτικόν, τὸ δὲ χρηματιστικόν.
Τὰ ἀναγκαῖα καὶ αἱ πρόσοδοι
Δεῖν γάρ, ὥσπερ στρατιᾷ μὲν παρασκευῆς, πόλει δὲ προσόδων, τέχνῃ δ’ ὀργάνων, οὕτω καὶ οἴκῳ τῶν ἀναγκαίων. Διττὰ δὲ ταῦτα, πρός τε τὸ κοινότερον ζῆν καὶ πρὸς τὸ εὖ. Τούτων γὰρ πρῶτον ἔχειν δεῖν πρόνοιαν τὸν οἰκονομικόν, ἢ τὰς προσόδους αὔξοντα διὰ πορισμῶν ἐλευθερίων ἢ τὰ δαπανήματα συστέλλοντα· μέγιστον γὰρ δὴ τοῦτο τὸ κεφάλαιον τῆς οἰκονομικῆς.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 535Authority and the Parts of Household Management
By nature the man has authority over this household. For the deliberative capacity is inferior in a woman, not yet present in a child, ⟨and⟩ not present at all in slaves.740 Practical wisdom in household management, which administers the ⟨household⟩ itself and what belongs to it, is proper to a man.741 One part is paternal, another marital, another concerned with mastery, and another with acquiring wealth.742
Necessities and Income
For just as an army needs provisions, a city revenues, and a craft tools, so a household needs necessities. These are of two kinds, for living in the more general sense and for living well.743 The household manager must first take thought for these, either increasing income through honorable means of acquisition or reducing expenses; for this is indeed the greatest principle of household management.744
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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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