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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.123.6
Ancient Greek
p. 922Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Πάντα μὲν γὰρ ἴσως ἐν κοινῷ κεῖται τὰ ἀνθρώπεια ἔργα [καὶ ἐστι κοινὰ ἀνδρῶν καὶ γυναικῶν] καὶ οὐδὲν ἀποτακτὸν ἐξ ἀνάγκης τῷ ἑτέρῳ· ἔνια δὲ δὴ ἐπιτηδειότερα τὰ μὲν τῇδε τῇ φύσει, τὰ δὲ τῇδε· δι’ ὃ τὰ μὲν ἀνδρεῖα καλεῖται, τὰ δὲ γυναικεῖα· ὅσα μέντοι τὴν ἀναφορὰν ἔχει εἰς ἀρετήν, ταῦτα φαίη τις ἂν ὀρθῶς ἐπ’ ἴσον ἑκατέρᾳ προσήκειν φύσει, εἴγε καὶ τὰς ἀρετὰς προσήκειν φαμὲν οὐδὲν τοῖς ἑτέροις μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς ἑτέροις. Ὅθεν εἰκότως οἶμαι καὶ παιδευτέον ὅσα πρὸς ἀρετὴν παραπλησίως τό τε θῆλυ καὶ τὸ ἄρρεν· καὶ ἀρξαμένους ἀπὸ νηπίων εὐθὺς διδακτέον, ὅτι τοῦτο μὲν ἀγαθόν, τοῦτο δὲ κακὸν [κακὸν ταὐτὸν ἀμφοῖν], καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ὠφέλιμον, τοῦτο δὲ βλαβερόν, καὶ τόδε μὲν πρακτέον, τόδε δὲ οὔ· ἐξ ὧν περιγίνεται φρόνησις τοῖς μανθάνουσιν ὁμοίως κόραις καὶ κόροις καὶ οὐδὲν διαφορώτερον τοῖς ἑτέροις· εἶτα δὲ ἐμποιητέον αἰδῶ πρὸς ἅπαν αἰσχρόν. ὧν ἐγγενομένων ἀνάγκη σώφρονας εἶναι καὶ ἄνδρα καὶ γυναῖκα.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 923Musonius continued
For perhaps all human tasks lie open in common, and none need necessarily be ruled out for either sex.1349 Some, however, are more suitable to one nature and some to the other, which is why some are called men’s tasks and others women’s. Yet whatever relates to virtue one could rightly say is equally fitting for each nature, if indeed we say that the virtues themselves belong no more to one than to the other. Therefore I think it reasonable that both female and male should be educated alike in whatever concerns virtue. Beginning from earliest childhood, they should immediately be taught that this is good and that bad, that this is beneficial and that harmful, and that this should be done and that should not.1350 From these lessons practical wisdom comes to those who learn them, girls and boys alike, and no more to one than to the other. Then a sense of shame at everything disgraceful must be instilled in them. Once these qualities are present, both man and woman must be temperate.1351
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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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