Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.47–II.31.48

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Ἀριστοτέλους

II.31.47

Οὗτος ἐρωτηθείς, τί τῶν ζῴων κάλλιστον, ἔφη· «ἄνθρωπος τὴν ψυχὴν παιδείᾳ κεκοσμημένος».

Ἀριστοτέλης

II.31.48

Ὁ αὐτὸς ὀνειδιζόμενος ὑπό τινος, ὅτι βαρβαρίζει, ἔφη· «ἐγὼ μὲν τῷ λόγῳ, ὑμεῖς δὲ τῷ τρόπῳ».

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Aristotle

II.31.47

When he was asked which living creature is most beautiful, he said, “A human being whose soul has been adorned by education.”¹¹⁵³

Aristotle

II.31.48

When someone reproached the same man for speaking like a barbarian,¹¹⁵⁴ he said, “I do so in speech; you do so in conduct.”¹¹⁵⁵

1153.The answer makes education the adornment of the soul. The main heading attributes the saying to Aristotle; Wachsmuth’s apparatus also records witnesses that assign it to Socrates. The local attribution is preserved without treating it as proof of historical authorship.

1154.Βαρβαρίζειν here carries the linguistic reproach of speaking in a non-Greek or faulty manner. The reply turns that charge against the critics’ conduct. Λόγος and τρόπος distinguish speech from character or behavior. The Greek you, ὑμεῖς, is plural, although the narrator introduces a single critic.

1155.There is no separate author heading before excerpt 48: the source begins the same man, continuing the preceding attribution to Aristotle. His name is repeated above for orientation. The apparatus asks whether the anecdote belongs to Anacharsis; this possibility is not substituted for the local attribution.

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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