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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.44
Ancient Greek
p. 640Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Τὸν κατὰ νοῦν ἄρα βίον καὶ τὸν ἐχόμενον τῶν θεῶν διαζῆν μελετητέον· οὗτος γὰρ ἡμῖν μόνος ἀποδίδωσι τὴν ἀδέσποτον τῆς ψυχῆς ἐξουσίαν, ἀπολύει τε ἡμᾶς τῶν ἀναγκαίων δεσμῶν καὶ ποιεῖ ζῆν οὐκ ἀνθρώπινόν τινα βίον, ἀλλὰ τὸν θεῖον καὶ τῇ βουλήσει τῶν θεῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀποπληρούμενον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 641From the same work
We should therefore train ourselves to live the life that accords with intellect and holds fast to the gods.897 For this life alone restores to us the soul’s masterless authority, frees us from the bonds of necessity, and makes us live not some human life, but the divine life filled with good things by the will of the gods.898
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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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