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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.125.7
Ancient Greek
p. 944Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ἵνα δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπανέλθω τοῦ λόγου, φημὶ δεῖν τὸν διδάσκαλον τὸν φιλόσοφον μὴ λόγων πλῆθος μηδ’ ἀποδείξεων ζητεῖν διεξιέναι πρὸς τοὺς μανθάνοντας, ἀλλὰ καιρίως περὶ ἑκάστου λέγειν καὶ ⟨ἃ⟩ καθικνεῖται τῆς διανοίας τοῦ ἀκούοντος καὶ * * * στικὰ εἶναι λέγειν καὶ ἀνατραπῆναι μὴ ῥᾴδια· καὶ μάλιστά γε τῷ παρέχειν αὑτὸν περί τε τῶν χρησιμωτάτων λέγοντα καὶ ὁμολογούμενα οἷς λέγει πράττοντα, τούτῳ μεταχειριζόμενον τοὺς ἀκούοντας·
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 945Musonius continued
To return to the beginning of the argument, I say that the philosopher who teaches should not seek to run through a multitude of arguments or proofs for his students. He should speak to the point on each matter and say ⟨what⟩ reaches the hearer’s mind1385 and * * * -stika [word incomplete], and is not easy to overturn.1386 Above all, he should influence his hearers by showing himself speaking about the most useful matters and acting in agreement with what he says.1387
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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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