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 Chapter 31 · II.31.3–II.31.4

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Τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἱκετίδων

II.31.3

Τὸ γὰρ τραφῆναι μὴ κακῶς αἰδῶ φέρει· αἰσχύνεται γὰρ τἀγάθ’ ἀσκήσας ἀνὴρ κακὸς κεκλῆσθαι πᾶς τις· ἡ δ’ εὐανδρία διδακτόν, εἴπερ καὶ βρέφη διδάσκεται λέγειν τ’ ἀκούειν θ’ ὧν μάθησις ἐν λόγῳ. ἃ δ’ ἂν μάθῃ τις ταῦτα σῴζεσθαι φιλεῖ εἰς γῆρας· οὕτω παῖδας εὖ παιδεύετε.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ Πελιάσιν

II.31.4

Ὁ γὰρ ξυνών, κακὸς μὲν ἢν τύχῃ γεγώς, τοιούσδε τοὺς ξυνόντας ἐκπαιδεύεται, χρηστοὺς δ’ ὁ χρηστός· ἀλλὰ τὰς ὁμιλίας ἐσθλὰς διώκειν, ὦ νέοι, σπουδάζετε.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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Euripides, from Suppliants

II.31.3

For an upbringing that is not bad brings a sense of shame; every man who has practiced goodness is ashamed to be called bad. Manly courage is teachable,¹⁰⁷⁰ if even little children are taught to speak and listen, things whose learning is a matter of speech. What someone learns tends to be preserved into old age. So educate your children well.¹⁰⁷¹

Euripides, from Daughters of Pelias

II.31.4

For the man you associate with, if he happens to be bad, trains his companions to be like himself; while a good man trains them to be good. So, young men, make it your concern to seek out noble company.¹⁰⁷²

1070.Suppliants 911–917. Αἰδώς is a sense of shame or moral regard; εὐανδρία is manly excellence or courage. The passage follows Adrastus’s praise of Tydeus, already excerpted at II.15.2. The argument connects practiced goodness, concern about a bad name, and the possibility of teaching courage.

1071.The local phrase ὧν μάθησις ἐν λόγῳ, whose learning is a matter of speech, is difficult. It is retained with its reference to learning to speak and listen, rather than replaced by the different wording of the separate play. Βρέφη means infants or very young children. The conclusion stresses the persistence of what is learned into old age.

1072.The same-author heading continues the attribution to Euripides and names his lost Daughters of Pelias, Πελιάδες; Wachsmuth cites fragment 612 in Nauck’s numbering. Association is itself treated as education: a companion forms those around him after his own character. The excerpt supplies no identifiable dramatic speaker.

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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