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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.123.2
Ancient Greek
p. 914Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ὅτι δὲ οὐχ ἄλλαι ἀρεταὶ ἀνδρός, ἄλλαι δὲ γυναικός, ῥᾴδιον μαθεῖν. Αὐτίκα, φρονεῖν δεῖ μὲν τὸν ἄνδρα, δεῖ δὲ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα· ἢ τί ὄφελος εἴη ἂν ἄφρονος ἀνδρὸς ἢ γυναικός; Εἶτα ⟨δεῖ⟩ δικαίως βιοῦν οὐδέτερον ἧττον θατέρου· ἀλλ’ ὅ τε ἀνὴρ οὐκ ἂν εἴη πολίτης ἀγαθὸς ἄδικος ὤν, ἥ τε γυνὴ οὐκ ἂν οἰκονομοίη χρηστῶς, ἣ μὴ δίκαιος ἀλλ’ ἄδικος οὖσα πρῶτον ἀδικήσει τὸν ἄνδρα, ὥσπερ τὴν Ἐριφύλην φασί. Σωφρονεῖν μὲν αὖ καλὸν τὴν γυναῖκα, καλὸν δ’ ὁμοίως καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα· τὸ γοῦν μοιχεύειν τῷ μοιχεύεσθαι ἐπίσης κολάζουσιν οἱ νόμοι. Καὶ λιχνεῖαι καὶ οἰνοφλυγίαι καὶ ἄλλα παραπλήσια κακά, ἀκολαστήματα ὄντα καὶ καταισχύνοντα μεγάλως τοὺς ἐνεχομένους αὐτοῖς, ἀποφαίνει τὴν σωφροσύνην ἀναγκαιοτάτην οὖσαν ἀνθρώπῳ παντί, τῷ τε θήλει καὶ τῷ ἄρρενι· διὰ γὰρ σωφροσύνης μόνης ἐκφεύγομεν ἀκολασίαν, ἄλλως δ’ οὐδαμῶς.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 915Musonius continued
It is easy to learn that a man’s virtues are not one set and a woman’s another. First, a man must have understanding, and a woman must too; of what use would a foolish man or woman be? Next, both ⟨must⟩ live justly, neither less so than the other. A man could not be a good citizen while unjust, nor could a woman manage a household well: if she is unjust rather than just, she will wrong her husband first, as they say Eriphyle did.1337 Again, it is good for a woman to be temperate, and equally good for a man. At any rate, the laws punish an adulterer and an adulteress equally.1338 Greed for delicacies, drunkenness and other such evils, being acts of intemperance and greatly disgracing those caught up in them, show that temperance is absolutely necessary for every human being, female and male. For through temperance alone we escape intemperance, and in no other way.1339
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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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