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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.110p–II.31.110r
Ancient Greek
p. 866Πολιτείας ζʹ
Μὴ τοίνυν βίᾳ, ὦ ἄριστε, εἶπον τοὺς παῖδας ἐν τοῖς μαθήμασιν ἀλλὰ παίζοντας τρέφε, ἵνα καὶ μᾶλλον οἷός τ’ ᾖς καθορᾶν, ἐφ’ ᾧ ἕκαστος πέφυκε.
⟨Ἐν ταὐτῷ⟩
Πολὺ γάρ τοι μᾶλλον ἀποδειλιῶσιν αἱ ψυχαὶ ἐν ἰσχυροῖς μαθήμασιν ἢ ἐν γυμνασίοις· οἰκειότερος γὰρ ὁ πόνος αὐταῖς, ἴδιος ἀλλ’ οὐ κοινὸς ὢν μετὰ τοῦ σώματος.
⟨Ἐν ταὐτῷ⟩
Εἷς ἕκαστος ἓν μὲν ἂν ἐπιτήδευμα καλῶς ἐπιτηδεύοι, πολλὰ δὲ οὔ· ἀλλ’ εἰ τοῦτ’ ἐπιχειροῖ, πολλῶν ἐφαπτόμενος πάντων ἀποτυγχάνοι ἄν, ὥστ’ εἶναί που ἐλλόγιμος.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 867Republic VII
“Then, my good friend,” I said, “bring children up in their studies through play, instead of by force, so that you may better see what each is naturally suited for.”1267
⟨In the same work⟩
For souls lose heart far more in demanding studies than in physical training: the effort is more their own, being theirs alone, rather than shared with the body.1268
⟨In the same work⟩
Each person could practice one pursuit well, but not many; if he tried to take up many, he would fail to attain distinction in any of them.1269
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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.
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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