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.31.80–II.31.82

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Πλάτων

II.31.80

Πλάτων εἶπε τὴν παιδείαν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις δεύτερον ἥλιον εἶναι.

Ζήνων

II.31.81

Ζήνων ἐρωτηθείς, πῶς ἄν τις νέος ἐλάχιστα ἁμαρτάνοι, «εἰ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν ἔχει», ἔφη, «οὓς μάλιστα τιμᾷ καὶ αἰσχύνεται».

Ἐκ τῆς Περὶ φιλίας ἐπιστολῆς

II.31.82

Ἡ παιδεία κἂν μηδὲν ἕτερον ἀγαθὸν ἔχῃ, τό γε συμφοιτᾶν αὐτὴν νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας ἐκσῴζει κακίας, οἷς ἂν ᾖ τις αἰδώς· καὶ πολλοὶ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καὶ ἄλλους * *

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Plato

II.31.80

Plato said that education is a second sun for human beings.¹²⁰¹

Zeno

II.31.81

Zeno was asked how a young person might go wrong as little as possible. “If he keeps before his eyes,” he said, “those whom he most honors and before whom he feels shame.”¹²⁰²

From the letter On Friendship

II.31.82

Education, even if it has no other good quality, at least by keeping one company night and day preserves from vice those who have some sense of shame.¹²⁰³ And many, themselves and others… [text missing]¹²⁰⁴

1201.Education is likened to a source of light. No work title is given, so this brief saying does not identify a particular Platonic dialogue. Plato and Zeno are named in the opening narratives of excerpts 80 and 81; their separate labels above are editorial.

1202.Αἰσχύνεται with a person as object concerns the shame or restraint one feels before that person. The image is of keeping respected people in view; no particular mentor is named. The Greek retains the printed present ἔχει, keeps, rather than the alternative optative ἔχοι recorded in the apparatus.

1203.The heading names a letter On Friendship; Wachsmuth identifies Plutarch in his parenthetical fragment reference, Plut. fr. 18,15. Συμφοιτᾶν is to accompany or keep company, with αὐτήν read as education, the subject of the infinitive. The English construes the compressed opening accordingly. The printed ἐκσῴζει, preserves from, is an adopted correction; the apparatus records transmitted ἔξω, outside.

1204.The final clause is unfinished. Πολλοί is nominative, many; σφᾶς αὐτούς and ἄλλους are accusative, themselves and others. The surviving words do not supply a predicate that securely connects them. The two printed asterisks mark the gap after others; no missing verb or conclusion is supplied.

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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