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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.110h–II.31.110k
Ancient Greek
p. 860Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ὁρᾷς οὖν ὅτι οὐ καλῶς ἐλέγομεν, ὡς ἄρα καὶ αὐτὰ τὰ τῆς φιλοσόφου φύσεως μέρη, ὅταν ἐν κακῇ τροφῇ γένηται, αἴτια τρόπον τινὰ τοῦ ἐκπεσεῖν ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιτηδεύματος καὶ τὰ λεγόμενα ἀγαθὰ πλοῦτοί τε καὶ πᾶσα ἡ τοιαύτη παρασκευή.
Νόμων ϛʹ
Παντὸς φυτοῦ ἡ πρώτη βλάστη καλῶς ὁρμηθεῖσα πρὸς ἀρετὴν τῆς αὑτοῦ φύσεως κυριωτάτη τέλος ἐπιθεῖναι τὸ πρόσφορον τῶν τε ἄλλων φυτῶν καὶ τῶν ζῴων ἡμέρων καὶ ἀγρίων ⟨καὶ ἀνθρώπων⟩· ἄνθρωπος δέ, ὥς φαμεν, ἥμερον, ὅμως μὴν παιδείας μὲν ὀρθῆς τυχὸν καὶ φύσεως εὐτυχοῦς θειότατον ἡμερώτατόν τε ζῷον γίγνεσθαι φιλεῖ, μὴ ἱκανῶς δὲ ἢ μὴ καλῶς τραφὲν ἀγριώτατον ὁπόσα φύει γῆ.
Ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου
Ὡς δή τοι, τὸ λεγόμενον, τὰ παίδων μαθήματα θαυμαστὸν ἔχει τι μνημεῖον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 861In the same work
You see, then, that we were not right in saying that even the very elements of a philosophical nature, when badly nurtured, are in a way causes of falling away from the pursuit, as are the so-called goods—wealth and all such resources.1259
Laws VI
Every growing thing’s first growth, if well directed toward the excellence of its own nature, is most decisive in bringing it to its proper completion—other plants, domestic and wild animals, ⟨and human beings⟩ alike.1260 The human being, as we say, is tame; yet, with right education and a fortunate natural endowment, it tends to become the most divine and tamest of creatures, but if inadequately or badly reared, the wildest of all that the earth produces.1261
From the Timaeus
Indeed, as the saying goes, what we learn in childhood leaves a remarkable trace in memory.1262
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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