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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 15 · II.15.48
Ancient Greek
p. 730Πλάτωνος ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Ἀριστόδωρον ἐπιστολῆς
Ἀκούω Δίωνος ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα ἑταῖρον εἶναί τέ σε νῦν καὶ γεγονέναι διὰ παντός, τὸ σοφώτατον ἦθος τῶν εἰς φιλοσοφίαν παρεχόμενον· τὸ γὰρ βέβαιον καὶ πιστὸν καὶ ὑγιές, τοῦτο ἐγώ φημι εἶναι τὴν ἀληθινὴν φιλοσοφίαν, τὰς δὲ ἄλλας τε καὶ εἰς ἄλλα τεινούσας σοφίας τε καὶ δεινότητας κομψότητας οἶμαι προσαγορεύων ὀρθῶς ὀνομάζειν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 15
p. 731Plato, from the Letter to Aristodorus
I hear that you are now, and have always been, one of Dion’s closest companions, displaying the wisest of the dispositions that make for philosophy.1045 For steadfastness, trustworthiness, and soundness—this, I say, is true philosophy. The other kinds of wisdom and cleverness, directed toward other ends, I believe I name rightly when I call them refinements.1046
Socrates
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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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