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.31.110e–II.31.110f

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⟨Τοῦ αὐτοῦ⟩

II.31.110e

Οὐχ ἧττον μανθάνοντι πονητέον ἢ γυμναζομένῳ.

⟨Τοῦ αὐτοῦ⟩

II.31.110f

Τὰς τῶν μαθημάτων ἡδονὰς ἀμίκτους τε εἶναι λύπαις ῥητέον καὶ οὐδαμῶς πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ τῶν σφόδρα ὀλίγων.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31

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⟨From the same author⟩

II.31.110e

One must work no less at learning than at physical training.¹²⁵⁴

⟨From the same author⟩

II.31.110f

We must say that the pleasures of learning are unmixed with pains and belong by no means to many people, but to very few.¹²⁵⁵

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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Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.