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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 9 · II.9.6.4–II.9.6.5
Ancient Greek
p. 664Εὐσεβίου — συνέχεια
ἡ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν κακίην ἄγουσα ἔστιν οἵη τὰ μὲν κατ’ ἀρχὰς ὀλίγου πάγχυ καὶ τούτου οὐ γνησίου, ἀπατηλοῦ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ παραγωγῇ τῶν προσιόντων γεῦσαί τευ ἥδεος· ὥστε δὲ μηδενὸς μετὰ ταῦτα ἡγεμόνος εὑρισκομένου, εὐθὺς ἄγει ἐς ὁδὸν σκολίην, σκόλοπάς τε ἔχουσαν, οἵτινες δὴ ὀξέες, μεγάλοι καὶ πυκνοὶ καταπεπήγασι, καὶ χαράδρας καὶ κρημνοὺς κατὰ κεφαλῆς ὠθέοντας τοὺς ἐπαυρισκομένους κατὰ τοῦ συμψήσοντος καὶ παρασυρέοντος τοὺς κατενεχθέντας ἐς αὐτὸν ποταμοῦ κάτω βορβόρῳ καὶ λίθοις ῥέοντος, ὥστε πολλοὺς εὐθὺς οὕτω διαφθείρεσθαι.
Εὐσεβίου — συνέχεια
Οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ τύχῃ, οὔταρ’ οἰκείῃ προμηθείῃ, ἐπὶ τὰς αὐτόθι ἐούσας πόλιας διασκεδαννύαται ἄλλοι ἄλλοσε καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν, πολλὴν ἐοῦσαν, τὴν χώρην, περὶ τῶν δὴ καὶ αὐτῶν ὁ προειρημένος ἄγγελος ἀπηγήσεται. Τουτέων ἐουσέων τῶν ὁδῶν τοιουτέων, ἄγει ὁ προειρημένος καὶ ἔστιν ἐν μέσῳ θεοῦ μεγάλου κῆρυξ ⟨καὶ⟩ σύμβουλος λόγος, ⟨ὃς⟩ ψυχῇσι τῇσι μελλούσῃσι κατιέναι τοιάδε προφωνέει·
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 9
p. 665Eusebius continued
But the road leading to vice offers at its beginning a taste of something pleasant, very little of it, and even this is not genuine but deceptive, meant to lead those approaching astray.931 After this, with no guide to be found, it leads straight onto a crooked road with sharp, large stakes driven closely together, and gullies and precipices that hurl those who encounter them headlong down toward the river below. This runs with mud and stones and will engulf and sweep away those cast down into it, so that many are immediately destroyed in this way.932
Eusebius continued
The rest, by chance rather than their own forethought, are scattered in different directions toward the cities there and throughout the whole extensive country. The messenger already mentioned will report on these too.933 Such being the roads, the previously mentioned Reason leads the way and stands in the middle—the great god’s herald ⟨and⟩ counselor, ⟨who⟩ makes the following proclamation to the souls about to descend:934
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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.
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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