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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: How to Use the Edition

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How to use the edition

Greek and English

The two languages are paired by passage identifier. Greek is on the left and English on the right where the format permits. On narrow screens the pair may stack, with Greek first. PDF page references identify the matching pages in this edition.

Passage numbers

II.1.15 means Book II, chapter 1, excerpt 15. Letters retain subdivisions such as 5a–c. II.1.17–18 keeps the Didymus material together. Added final numbers, as in II.1.29.1–3, divide a long excerpt for layout only; they do not create new ancient excerpts.

Source pages

Source references identify the original printed pages in Wachsmuth. In the source scan, printed page 1 is scan page 4, page 3 is scan page 6, and page 9 is scan page 12. References labeled PDF edition instead identify pages in this bilingual edition.

Editorial signs

Angle brackets mark words supplied by the editor. Square brackets retain rejected Greek wording; the notes identify its omission from the English. Vertical strokes mark editorial joins in the Didymus and Epictetus passages. Supplied particles expressed through English grammar are explained in notes.

Scope of this edition

All surviving anthology text is included: printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264 in full, ending at II.46.22. Chapters 10–14, 16–30, 32 and 34–45 retain headings only, with the missing texts marked. Wachsmuth’s Latin apparatus and scholarly appendices fall outside the anthology translation.

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

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.