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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.110s
Ancient Greek
p. 868Νόμων ζʹ
Ἄνευ ποιμένος δὲ οὔτε πρόβατα οὔτε ἄλλο οὐδέν πω βιωτέον, οὐδὲ δὴ παῖδας ἄνευ τινῶν παιδαγωγῶν οὐδὲ δούλους ἄνευ δεσποτῶν. ὁ δὲ παῖς πάντων θηρίων ἐστὶ δυσμεταχειριστότατον· ὅσῳ γὰρ μάλιστα ἔχει πηγὴν τοῦ φρονεῖν μήπω κατηρτυμένην, ἐπίβουλον καὶ δριμὺ καὶ ὑβριστότατον θηρίον γίγνεται· διὸ πολλοῖς αὐτὸ οἷον χαλινοῖς τισι δεῖ δεσμεύειν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 869Laws VII
Without a shepherd, neither sheep nor any other creature at all should live; nor children without some attendants, nor slaves without masters.1270 The child is the hardest of all beasts to manage. Since it possesses in the highest degree a source of understanding that is not yet ordered, it becomes a scheming, shrewd and exceedingly insolent beast. That is why it must be bound, as it were, with many bridles.1271
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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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