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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.20.heading–II.23.heading

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Κεφάλαιον Κʹ

II.20.heading

Ὅτι δυσκατόρθωτον ἡ ἀρετή, εὐμεταχείριστον δὲ ἡ κακία.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΚΑʹ

II.21.heading

Ὅτι οὐ χρὴ λόγον ποιεῖσθαι τῆς τῶν ἀσυνέτων δοκιμασίας.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΚΒʹ

II.22.heading

Ὅτι τὴν ὑπόκρισιν τοῖς κεχρημένοις ἐπιβλαβῆ οὖσαν καὶ πρὸς οὓς γίνεται τῆς ψυχῆς ἐκβλητέον.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΚΓʹ

II.23.heading

Ὅτι οὐ χρὴ πολυπραγμονεῖν, φθόνου γὰρ καὶ διαβολῆς αἴτιον γίνεται τὸ τοιοῦτον.

deest.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 16–30

p. 737

Chapter 20

II.20.heading

That virtue is difficult to achieve, while vice is easy to practice.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁴

Chapter 21

II.21.heading

That one should take no account of the judgment of those without understanding.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁵

Chapter 22

II.22.heading

That hypocrisy should be cast out of the soul, since it harms both those who practice it and those toward whom it is directed.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁶

Chapter 23

II.23.heading

That one should not meddle, since such conduct gives rise to envy and slander.

[Text missing]¹⁰⁵⁷

1054.Δυσκατόρθωτον indicates something difficult to accomplish successfully; εὐμεταχείριστον contrasts what is readily taken up or practiced. The Greek prints these predicates in the neuter although ἀρετή and κακία are feminine.

1055.Δοκιμασία is assessment or approval; τῶν ἀσυνέτων identifies those making that assessment. Λόγον ποιεῖσθαι means to take account of something. The heading concerns the judgment made by the unwise, rather than an examination of them.

1056.Ὑπόκρισις here is pretense or dissimulation, rather than stage performance as such. The heading identifies harm to those who employ it as well as to its targets. Its chapter text is missing.

1057.Πολυπραγμονεῖν is intrusive meddling or busybodiness. The heading connects this behavior with envy and slander without specifying who feels the envy or directs the slander.

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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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.