Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.26.23

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Ancient Greek

p. 550

Νόμοι περὶ γεννήσεως

II.7.26.23

Καὶ τὸ νομοθετεῖν δὲ μηθὲν ἐκτρέφειν πεπηρωμένον μηδ’ ἐκτιθέναι τέλειον μηδ’ ἐξαμβλοῦν συμφορώτατον δήπου. Καὶ τῶν μὲν πολιτικῶν τὰ κεφάλαια ταῦτα.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 551

Laws Concerning Birth

II.7.26.23

And surely it is most advantageous to legislate that no impaired child be reared, that no fully formed child be exposed, and that no abortion be induced.⁷⁷⁶ These, then, are the main points concerning politics.⁷⁷⁷

776.Πεπηρωμένον denotes a child with bodily impairment, while τέλειον here denotes one fully formed or whole. Ἐκτρέφειν is to rear, ἐκτιθέναι to expose or abandon an infant, and ἐξαμβλοῦν to cause an abortion. All three injunctions, including the account’s discriminatory rule against rearing impaired children, remain as historical text. The final prohibition differs from the qualified provision concerning abortion in Aristotle, Politics VII.16, 1335b19–26; it is not replaced with that parallel wording.

777.Συμφορώτατον is most advantageous, and δήπου adds the force surely or presumably. The close ends both section 26 and the Peripatetic exposition in Chapter 7. The source begins Chapter 8 on printed p. 153; there is no omitted section 27.

About This Reading Edition

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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