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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.122.1
Ancient Greek
p. 904Ἐκ τῆς Ἰαμβλίχου ἐπιστολῆς Σωπάτρῳ Περὶ παίδων ἀγωγῆς
Παντὸς ζῴου καὶ φυτοῦ ἡ πρώτη βλάστη καλῶς ὁρμηθεῖσα πρὸς τὴν ἑκάστου ἀρετὴν κυριωτάτη πασῶν ἐστι τέλος ἐπιθεῖναι τὸ πρόσφορον, καὶ τῆς τῶν παίδων τοίνυν εὐεξίας ἡ πρώτη βελτίστη τῆς φύσεως πρόοδος ὁδῷ ⟨τε⟩ πρόεισιν ἐπὶ τὴν τελειότητα τεταγμένως, ἐφ’ ἥνπερ αὐτὴν προχωρεῖν ἄξιον· ταύτην τοίνυν ἡ ὀρθὴ παιδεία δεόντως προοδηγεῖ, σπέρματα τῶν ἀρετῶν ἤδη προκαταβαλλομένη καὶ ἐν ἁπαλαῖς ἔτι καὶ ἀβάτοις ψυχαῖς θαυμαστὴν οἰκείωσιν ἐμποιοῦσα πρὸς τὴν τῶν καλῶν ἐπιτήδευσιν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 905Iamblichus, letter to Sopater, On the Upbringing of Children
In every animal and plant, the first growth, well directed toward each one’s excellence, is the most decisive of all for bringing about the fitting end.1322 So too, in children’s sound development, nature’s earliest and best advance proceeds methodically ⟨and⟩ in due order toward the perfection it deserves to reach.1323 Proper education fittingly leads this advance, already sowing seeds of the virtues and creating in souls still tender and untrodden a remarkable affinity with the pursuit of noble things.1324
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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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