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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.126.2
Ancient Greek
p. 950Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Σκοπῶμεν δὲ καὶ καθ’ ἓν ἕκαστον τῶν προσηκόντων γυναικὶ τῇ ἐσομένῃ ἀγαθῇ· φανεῖται γὰρ ἀπὸ φιλοσοφίας τούτων ἕκαστον μάλιστ’ ἂν αὐτῇ περιγινόμενον. Αὐτίκα δεῖ οἰκονομικὴν εἶναι τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ ἐκλογιστικὴν τῶν οἴκῳ συμφερόντων καὶ ἀρχικὴν τῶν οἰκετῶν. Ταῦτα δ’ ἐγώ φημι τῇ φιλοσοφούσῃ ὑπάρξαι ἂν μάλιστα· εἴγε ἕκαστον μὲν τούτων μέρος τοῦ βίου ἐστίν, ἐπιστήμη δὲ περὶ βίον οὐχ ἑτέρα τις ἢ φιλοσοφία ἐστὶ καὶ ὁ φιλόσοφος, ὥσπερ ἔλεγε Σωκράτης, τοῦτο διατελεῖ σκοπῶν,
Ὅττι τοι ἐν μεγάροισι κακόν τ’ ἀγαθόν τε τέτυκταιStobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 951Musonius continued
Let us also examine one by one the qualities appropriate to a woman who is to be good; each will appear to come to her above all from philosophy.1394 First, a woman must be skilled in household management, able to reckon what benefits the household, and capable of directing the household slaves.1395 I say these qualities would belong above all to a woman who practices philosophy, since each is part of life, and knowledge about life is nothing other than philosophy. And the philosopher, as Socrates used to say, continually considers:
What bad and good have come to pass for you within your halls.1396
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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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