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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 15 · II.15.47.2
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p. 726Τέλητος — συνέχεια
Καὶ τί ποτε ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀγαθῶν, ὅσα δοκοῦσιν ἄνθρωποι; μᾶλλον ἂν βούλοιο εἶναι ἐν αὐτοῖς ⟨ἢ δοκεῖν εἶναι⟩ καὶ ἔχειν αὐτὰ μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν ἔχειν; εὐθέως, ὁρᾶν ἂν βούλοιο, ἢ δοκεῖν ὁρᾶν; ὑγιαίνειν μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; ἰσχύειν μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; εὔπορος εἶναι, φίλους ἔχειν μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; ἐπὶ τῶν ψυχικῶν πάλιν, φρονεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; ἄλυπος εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; θαρσαλέος εἶναι, ἄφοβος εἶναι, ἀνδρεῖος εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; ἐπὶ τῆς δικαιοσύνης δὲ οὐκέτι δίκαιος εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ δοκεῖν; — Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀνδρεῖος ἂν μᾶλλον βουλοίμην δοκεῖν ἢ εἶναι. — Ἢ οὐχ ὁ ἀνδρεῖος καὶ ἄφοβος καὶ ἄλυπος, οὐχ ὁ δοκῶν; διὰ τί δὲ βούλει ἀνδρεῖος δοκεῖν εἶναι; — Τιμήσουσί με. —
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 15
p. 727Teles continued
And what about the other goods—all that people regard as good? Would you rather really be in that condition ⟨than seem to be⟩, and have those goods rather than seem to have them? To take an immediate example, would you wish to see or to seem to see? To be healthy rather than seem so? To be strong rather than seem so? To be well provided for, to have friends, rather than seem so?1041 Again, with the goods of the soul: to have understanding rather than seem to? To be free from distress rather than seem so? To be confident, fearless, courageous rather than seem so? But when it comes to justice, would you no longer prefer to be just rather than seem so? — Yet I would also prefer to seem courageous rather than be so. — Or is it not the courageous person who is both fearless and free from distress, rather than the person who seems so? Why do you wish to seem courageous? — They will honor me. —1042
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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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