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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.93c
Ancient Greek
p. 836⟨Τοῦ αὐτοῦ⟩
Ὥσπερ τὴν μέλιτταν ὁρῶμεν ἐφ’ ἅπαντα μὲν τὰ βλαστήματα καθιζάνουσαν, ἀφ’ ἑκάστου δὲ τὰ χρήσιμα λαμβάνουσαν, οὕτω χρὴ καὶ τοὺς παιδείας ὀρεγομένους μηδενὸς μὲν ἀπείρως ἔχειν, πανταχόθεν δὲ τὰ χρήσιμα συλλέγειν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 837⟨From the same author⟩
Just as we see the bee settling on every plant but taking what is useful from each, so those who desire education must likewise be acquainted with everything and gather what is useful from every source.1223
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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