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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 31 · II.31.34–II.31.35

Ancient Greek

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Ὁ αὐτός

II.31.34

Ὁ αὐτὸς ἐρωτηθεὶς, τί ἀναγκαιότατον εἴη μάθημα, «τὸ ἀπομαθεῖν», εἶπε, «τὰ κακά».

Ἀριστοτέλης

II.31.35

Ἀριστοτέλης ἔφη τὴν παιδείαν εὐτυχοῦσι μὲν κόσμον εἶναι, πταίουσι δὲ καταφυγὴν ἐλευθέριον.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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Antisthenes again

II.31.34

Asked what lesson was most necessary, the same man said, “To unlearn what is bad.”1135

Aristotle

II.31.35

Aristotle said that education is an adornment for those who prosper, and for those who stumble a refuge worthy of a free person.1136

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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.