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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapters 16–30 · II.16.heading–II.19.heading

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Κεφάλαιον ΙϚʹ

II.16.heading

Ὅτι οἱ ἄλλοις ἐπιβουλεύοντες ἑαυτοὺς λανθάνουσι καταβλάπτοντες.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΙΖʹ

II.17.heading

Περὶ εὐδοξίας.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΙΗʹ

II.18.heading

Περὶ φήμης.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΙΘʹ

II.19.heading

Ὅτι μέτρον ἄριστον.

deest.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 16–30

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Chapter 16

II.16.heading

That those who plot against others harm themselves without realizing it.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁰

Chapter 17

II.17.heading

On good reputation.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵¹

Chapter 18

II.18.heading

On public report.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵²

Chapter 19

II.19.heading

That due measure is best.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵³

1050.Wachsmuth prints deest, is missing, beneath each of the following fifteen headings. The notices mark missing chapter texts, not surviving excerpts left untranslated. Here λανθάνουσι with the participle indicates that the plotters harm themselves without being aware of doing so.

1051.Εὐδοξία is favorable reputation or esteem. This heading concerns being well regarded; the next heading names φήμη, report or public talk, more generally. Neither chapter’s excerpts are present here.

1052.Φήμη can denote report, rumor, or what people say about someone. The surviving heading does not establish which examples or particular applications the missing chapter contained.

1053.Μέτρον is measure or a fitting limit. Due measure expresses the maxim’s preference for a proper measure over excess. The heading gives no author’s name, and the chapter text is missing.

About This Reading Edition

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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Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.