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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.110x–II.31.110y
Ancient Greek
p. 880Πολιτείας γʹ
Μετὰ μουσικὴν γυμναστικῇ θρεπτέοι οἱ νεανίαι. — Τί μήν; — Δεῖ μὲν δὴ καὶ ταύτῃ ἀκριβῶς τρέφεσθαι ἐκ παίδων διὰ βίου· ἔχει δέ πως, ὡς ἐγῷμαι, ὧδε· σκόπει δὲ καὶ σύ. ἐμοὶ μὲν γὰρ οὐ φαίνεται, ὃ ἂν χρηστὸν ᾖ σῶμα, τῇ αὑτοῦ ἀρετῇ ψυχὴν ἀγαθὴν ἐμποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ψυχὴ ἀγαθὴ τῇ αὑτῆς ἀρετῇ σῶμα παρέχειν ὡς οἷόν τε βέλτιστον· σοὶ δὲ πῶς φαίνεται; — Καὶ ἐμοὶ οὕτως, ἔφη. — Οὐκοῦν εἰ τὴν διάνοιαν ἱκανῶς θεραπεύσαντες παραδοῖμεν αὐτῇ τὰ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι . . . .
Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Οὐδὲν δὲ δέοι ἂν αὐτοὺς ἄλλο πράττειν οὐδὲ μιμεῖσθαι ἢ τὰ τούτοις προσήκοντα εὐθὺς ἐκ παίδων ἀνδρείους, σώφρονας, ὁσίους, ἐλευθέρους καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα πάντα, τὰ δὲ ἀνελεύθερα μήτε ποιεῖν μήτε δεινοὺς εἶναι μιμήσασθαι, μηδ’ ἄλλο μηδὲν τῶν αἰσχρῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἐκ τῆς μιμήσεως τοῦ εἶναι ἀπολαύωσιν. ἢ οὐκ ᾔσθησαι, ὅτι αἱ μιμήσεις, ἐὰν ἐκ νέων πόρρω διατελέσωσιν, εἰς ἤθη τε καὶ φύσιν καθίστανται καὶ κατὰ σῶμα καὶ φωνὰς καὶ κατὰ τὴν διάνοιαν; — Καὶ μάλα, ἦ δ’ ὅς.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 881Republic III
After music, young men must be nurtured through physical training. — Of course. — They must indeed be carefully nurtured in this way too, from childhood throughout life. But it is somewhat like this, I think; consider it yourself as well. For it does not seem to me that a body in good condition instills goodness in the soul by its own excellence; rather, the reverse: a good soul by its own excellence provides a body as good as possible.1284 How does it seem to you? — The same to me, he said. — Then if, after adequately caring for the mind, we were to entrust it with settling the details concerning the body . . . .1285
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They would need to do or imitate nothing else but what befits them, right from childhood: brave, temperate, pious, free people, and everything of that kind.1286 They should neither do what is servile nor become skilled in imitating it, nor anything else shameful, lest imitation lead them to become what they imitate. Or have you not noticed that imitations, if kept up for a long time from youth, settle into character and nature, in body, voice and thought? — Very much so, he said.1287
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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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