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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.12.4
Ancient Greek
p. 758Ἀριστοφάνους — συνέχεια
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 759The rival Arguments continued
[Weaker Argument] Ancient stuff indeed, Dipolieia stuff, brimming with cicadas, and Kekeides and the Bouphonia! —1093 [Stronger Argument] Yet these are the very things by which my schooling reared the men who fought at Marathon. You teach the moderns to wrap themselves in cloaks right from the start: enough to make me hang myself when they ought to dance the Panathenaic dances, but a lad holds out the shield of modesty and neglects Tritogeneia.1094 So, young fellow, take heart and choose me, the Stronger Argument.
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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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