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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 3 · II.3.3b–II.3.4

Ancient Greek

p. 74

⟨Incerti comici⟩

II.3.3b
Κεκολλόπευκας· τοιγαροῦν ῥήτωρ ἔσῃ.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

II.3.4

Ἰδών τινα Πλάτων φαῦλα μὲν πράττοντα, δίκας δὲ ὑπὲρ ἑτέρων λέγοντα, εἶπεν, Οὗτος νοῦν “ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ φέρει”.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 3

p. 75

⟨An unidentified comic poet⟩

II.3.3b

You have been a passive sexual partner; so you will be an orator.95

The same author

II.3.4

Seeing a man who acted badly but pleaded cases for others, Plato said: “This man carries his understanding on his tongue.”96

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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.