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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.40
Ancient Greek
p. 788Τοῦ αὐτοῦ
Ἀναρχίας δ’ οὐδὲν κάκιον ἀνθρώποις· ταῦτα γινώσκοντες οἱ πρόσθεν ἄνθρωποι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς εἴθιζον τοὺς παῖδας ἄρχεσθαι καὶ τὸ κελευόμενον ποιεῖν, ἵνα μὴ ἐξανδρούμενοι εἰς μεγάλην μεταβολὴν ἰόντες ἐκπλήσσοιντο.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 789Antiphon: From the same author
Nothing is worse for human beings than anarchy. Knowing this, people of earlier times accustomed children from the beginning to being governed and doing what they were told, so that, as they grew into men and underwent a great change, they might not be overwhelmed.1144
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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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