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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.102
Ancient Greek
p. 844Σωκράτης
Σωκράτης πρὸς τινα πάντα εἰδέναι φάσκοντα καὶ πολυμάθειαν ὑπισχνούμενον (ἐτύγχανε δὲ εἰς Ἀκαδήμειαν συγκατιὼν αὐτῷ) ἐπιστὰς χωρίῳ πεφυτευμένῳ, ἤρετο αὐτὸν «οὐ δοκεῖ σοι ὁ γεωργὸς ἀμελῆσαι μὴ καταφυτεύσας πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, ἀλλὰ διαλείμματα μεταξὺ τῶν δένδρων καταλιπών;»· τοῦ δὲ εἰπόντος «καὶ μὴν εἰ μὴ τοῦτο ἐποίησεν, οὐδὲν ἂν τούτων ἔτι ἐβίω, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀπώλετο», «εἶτα», ἔφη, «σὺ ἐν τῇ σαυτοῦ ψυχῇ οὐδὲ μικρὸν τόπον παραλιπών, ἄλλα δ’ ἐπ’ ἄλλοις μαθήματα σωρεύων, οἴει τινὰ καρπὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν δρέψασθαι;»
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 845Socrates
Socrates put a question to someone who claimed to know everything and professed wide learning. He happened to be going down to the Academy with him, and stopped beside a planted plot.1235
“Does the farmer not seem to you to have been negligent, not planting the whole ground, but leaving gaps between the trees?”
The man replied, “Yet if he had not done this, none of these would have lived any longer; they would have destroyed one another.”1236
“Then,” he said, “do you expect to reap any fruit from those studies, when you have not left even a little space in your own soul, but heap one study upon another?”1237
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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