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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 9 · II.9.6.8
Ancient Greek
p. 668Εὐσεβίου — συνέχεια
Οὐ χρὴ ὦν βραχυτάτης κιβδήλου τε καὶ εὐδιασκεδάστου τευ ἡδονῆς ἕνεκα κακὰ μεγάλα καὶ τὰ παραμενέοντα τὸν πάντα χρόνον αἱρέεσθαι καὶ βίῳ τῷ βραχυτάτῳ βίον βλάψαι τὸν μετὰ ταῦτα μακρότατον, οὐδ’ αὖ πόνον ὀλίγον καταδεισάσας ἀγαθὰ μεγάλα καὶ τὰ παραμενέοντα τὸν πάντα χρόνον καὶ εὐδαιμονίην βιοτῆς μηκίστης τῆς μετὰ ταῦτα προΐεσθαι.“
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 9
p. 669Eusebius continued
You must therefore not choose great evils that endure for all time for the sake of some pleasure that is extremely brief, counterfeit, and easily dissipated, nor damage the longest life that follows by means of the shortest life.939 Nor, from fear of a little toil, must you throw away great goods that endure for all time and the happiness of the longest life that follows.”940
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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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