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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.12.3
Ancient Greek
p. 756Ἀριστοφάνους — συνέχεια
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 757The Stronger Argument continued
Nor would he go about softening ⟨his⟩ voice toward his lover, acting as his own pimp with his eyes.1091 At dinner he was not allowed to take the head of the radish, or snatch his elders’ dill or celery, or gobble delicacies, or giggle, or keep his feet crossed. —1092
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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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