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.31.93d–II.31.95

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Ancient Greek

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⟨Τοῦ αὐτοῦ⟩

II.31.93d

Μᾶλλον τήρει τὰς τῶν λόγων ἢ τὰς τῶν χρημάτων παρακαταθήκας.

Δημοκρίτου

II.31.94

Κρέσσονές εἰσι αἱ τῶν πεπαιδευμένων ἐλπίδες ἢ ὁ τῶν ἀμαθέων πλοῦτος.

Ἐκ τῶν Ἀρίστωνος Ὁμοιωμάτων

II.31.95

Κυβερνήτης μὲν οὔτε ἐν μεγάλῳ πλοίῳ οὔτε ἐν μικρῷ ναυτιάσει, οἱ δὲ ἄπειροι ἐν ἀμφοῖν· οὕτως ὁ μὲν πεπαιδευμένος καὶ ἐν πλούτῳ καὶ ἐν πενίᾳ οὐ ταράττεται, ὁ δ’ ἀπαίδευτος ἐν ἀμφοῖν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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⟨From the same author⟩

II.31.93d

Guard words held in trust more carefully than money held in trust.¹²²⁴

Democritus

II.31.94

The hopes of the educated are better than the wealth of the unlearned.¹²²⁵

From Ariston’s Comparisons

II.31.95

A helmsman will be seasick neither on a large ship nor on a small one, but the inexperienced will be seasick on either. In the same way, an educated person remains untroubled in both wealth and poverty, while an uneducated person is troubled in both.¹²²⁶

1224.To Demonicus 22. The editorially supplied heading continues the Isocrates attribution of 93a–c and is marked in both languages. Παρακαταθήκη is something deposited in another’s keeping; the saying applies the same image of a trust to words and to money.

1225.Ἐλπίδες means hopes or expectations: the comparison sets the educated person’s prospects above the unlearned person’s possessions. The printed Ionic forms κρέσσονες and ἀμαθέων are retained.

1226.The heading names Ariston’s Comparisons without identifying which Ariston. The helmsman represents practiced skill, while the inexperienced at sea supply the comparison for the uneducated. The first clause uses the future ναυτιάσει, will be seasick; the application uses the present ταράττεται, is troubled or disturbed.

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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