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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 9 · II.9.6.1
Ancient Greek
p. 660Εὐσεβίου
Θεοῦ ἐξ ἀρχῆς φήναντος τῷ γένει τῶν ἀνθρώπων κατὰ τὰ φατιζόμενα ὄψει ἐοῦσαι διαφανέες ὁδοὶ διφάσιαι προκέαται βίου ψυχῇσι ἀνθρώπων, ἀδαμαντίνῃ αἱμασιῇ παχυτάτῃ καὶ ἐς πολλὸν ὕψος ἀνηκούσῃ [κατὰ τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐξ ἀρχῆς φήναντος] ἀπ’ ἀλληλέων τὰ πρῶτα διεργόμεναι. Καὶ ἡ μὲν αὐτέων ἐστίν, ὁκοία δὴ τὴν τιμιωτέρην τάξιν λαχοῦσα, ἐκ δεξιῆς χερὸς ἐσιόντων· αὕτη ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρετὴν αὐτῇσι ἡγέεται· ἡτέρη δὲ λαιὴ ἐοῦσα ἐπὶ τὴν κακίην ἐστὶ παραπέμπουσα. Φατίζονται δὲ εἶναι τοιαίδε.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 9
p. 661Eusebius
According to what is told, two roads of life, which God revealed to humankind from the beginning, lie before human souls, plain to sight. At first they are separated from one another by an adamantine wall, very thick and rising to a great height.926 One, having received the more honored position, lies on the right of those entering: this leads them to virtue. The other lies on the left and sends them toward vice. They are said to be as follows.927
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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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