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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.2
Ancient Greek
p. 934Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ὅστις δὲ πανταχοῦ δεῖται ἀποδείξεως καὶ ὅπου σαφῆ τὰ πράγματά ἐστιν, ἢ διὰ πολλῶν ἀποδείκνυσθαι βούλεται αὐτῷ τὰ δι’ ὀλίγων δυνάμενα, παντάπασιν ἄτοπος καὶ δυσμαθής. Θεοὺς μὲν οὖν εἰκὸς οὐδεμιᾶς ἀποδείξεως δεῖσθαι πρὸς οὐδέν, ὅτι μήτε ἀσαφὲς μήτε ἄδηλόν ἐστιν αὐτοῖς μηδέν, πρὸς ⟨οἷα⟩ μόνα δεῖ τῶν ἀποδείξεων· τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους ἀνάγκη τὰ μὴ φανερὰ μηδ’ αὐτόθεν γνώριμα διὰ τῶν φανερῶν καὶ προδήλων ζητεῖν ἀνευρίσκειν, ὅπερ ἔργον ἀποδείξεώς ἐστιν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 935Musonius continued
Whoever needs proof at every point, even where the facts are clear, or wants many proofs for what can be demonstrated to him by a few, is altogether absurd and slow to learn.1370 It is reasonable, then, that the gods need no proof for anything, since nothing is obscure or unclear to them, and proofs are needed only for ⟨such things⟩.1371 But human beings must seek to discover what is not evident or known of itself through what is evident and obvious; that is the work of proof.1372
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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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