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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.126.3
Ancient Greek
p. 952Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ἀλλὰ δεῖ δὴ καὶ σώφρονα εἶναι τὴν γυναῖκα· οἵαν καθαρεύειν μὲν ἀφροδισίων παρανόμων, καθαρεύειν δὲ τῆς περὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἡδονὰς ἀκρασίας, μὴ δουλεύειν ἐπιθυμίαις, μηδὲ φιλόνεικον εἶναι, μὴ πολυτελῆ, μὴ καλλωπίστριαν. Ταῦτα μὲν ἔργα τῆς σώφρονός ἐστι· καὶ ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις ἐκεῖνα· κρατεῖν μὲν ὀργῆς, μὴ κρατεῖσθαι δ’ ὑπὸ λύπης, κρείττονα δὲ πάθους παντὸς εἶναι. Ταῦτα δ’ ὁ φιλόσοφος παρεγγυᾷ λόγος· ὁ δὲ μαθὼν αὐτὰ καὶ ἀσκήσας ἐμοὶ μὲν δοκεῖ γενέσθαι ἂν κοσμιώτατος, εἴτ’ ἀνὴρ εἴη εἴτε γυνή.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 953Musonius continued
But a woman must also be temperate: able to keep free of unlawful sexual acts and of lack of self-control in other pleasures, not be enslaved to desires, and be neither quarrelsome, extravagant nor fond of self-adornment.1397 These are the tasks of a temperate woman, along with these further ones: to master anger, not be mastered by grief, and be stronger than every passion.1398 Philosophical teaching enjoins these things. In my view, one who has learned and practiced them would become most orderly, whether a man or a woman.1399
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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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