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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.123.8
Ancient Greek
p. 926Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ἂν δέ τις ἐρωτᾷ με, τίς ἐπιστήμη τῆς παιδείας ταύτης ἐπιστατεῖ, λέξω πρὸς αὐτόν, ὅτι φιλοσοφίας ἄνευ ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ οὐκ ἂν οὐδείς, οὕτως οὐδ’ ἂν γυνὴ παιδευθείη ὀρθῶς. Καὶ οὐ τοῦτο βούλομαι λέγειν, ὅτι τρανότητα περὶ λόγους καὶ δεινότητά τινα περιττὴν χρὴ προσεῖναι ταῖς γυναιξίν, ᾗπερ φιλοσοφήσουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες (οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπ’ ἀνδρῶν ἐγὼ πάνυ τι τοῦτο ἐπαινῶ), ἀλλ’ ὅτι ἤθους χρηστότητα καὶ καλοκαγαθίαν τρόπου κτητέον ταῖς γυναιξίν· ἐπειδὴ καὶ φιλοσοφία καλοκαγαθίας ἐστὶν ἐπιτήδευσις καὶ οὐδὲν ἕτερον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 927Musonius continued
If someone asks me what branch of knowledge oversees this education, I will reply that without philosophy no woman could be properly educated, any more than any man could.1355 By this I do not mean that women must possess clarity in argument and some extraordinary cleverness as their way of practicing philosophy—for I do not particularly commend this even in men.1356 I mean that women must acquire goodness of character and moral excellence in conduct, since philosophy is itself the practice of moral excellence and nothing else.1357
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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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