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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.60
Ancient Greek
p. 806Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Θεάγους
Πάντα τὰ φυτὰ κινδυνεύει τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἔχειν καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς φυόμενα καὶ τὰ ζῷα, τὰ τε ἄλλα καὶ ἄνθρωπος. καὶ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς φυτοῖς ῥᾷστον ἡμῖν τοῦτο γίγνεται, ὅσοι τὴν γῆν γεωργοῦμεν, τὸ παρασκευάσασθαι πάντα τὰ πρὸ τοῦ φυτεύειν καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ φυτεῦσαι· ἐπειδὰν δὲ τὸ φυτευθὲν βιῷ, μετὰ τοῦτο θεραπεία τοῦ φύντος καὶ πολλὴ καὶ χαλεπὴ καὶ δύσκολος γίγνεται. οὕτως δὲ ἔχειν ἔοικε καὶ τὸ περὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἀπὸ τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ ἐγὼ πραγμάτων τεκμαίρομαι καὶ ἐς τὰ ἄλλα. καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ ἡ τοῦ υἱέος τούτου, εἴτε φυτείαν εἴτε παιδοποιίαν δεῖ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζειν, πάντων ῥᾴστη γέγονεν, ἡ δὲ τροφὴ δύσκολός τε καὶ ἐν φόβῳ περὶ αὐτοῦ δεδιότι.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 807Plato, from Theages
All growing things seem likely to follow the same pattern: both things that spring from the earth and animals, the others as well as human beings.1175 For with plants, too, the easiest part for those of us who cultivate the earth is this—to make all the preparations before planting and to do the planting itself. But once what has been planted takes life, tending the growth becomes an extensive, hard, and troublesome task. Human affairs seem to follow the same course; I infer what holds in other cases from my own experience. For in my case the planting of this son—whether one should call it planting or begetting a child—has been the easiest thing of all.1176 But rearing him is difficult and fraught with anxiety for me, afraid for him as I am.1177
Socrates
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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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