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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.126.4
Ancient Greek
p. 954Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Τί οὖν; ταῦτα μὲν ταύτῃ ἔχει· δικαία δ’ οὐκ ἂν εἴη γυνὴ φιλοσοφοῦσα, οὐδ’ ἄμεμπτος βίου κοινωνός, οὐδ’ ὁμονοίας ἀγαθὴ συνεργός, οὐδὲ ἀνδρός γε καὶ τέκνων ἐπιμελὴς κηδεμών, οὐδὲ φιλοκερδείας ἢ πλεονεξίας πάντῃ καθαρά; Καὶ τίς ἂν μᾶλλον τῆς φιλοσόφου τοιαύτη γένοιτο, ἥν γε ἀνάγκη πᾶσα, εἴπερ εἴη τῷ ὄντι φιλόσοφος, τὸ μὲν ἀδικεῖν τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι χεῖρον νομίζειν, ὅσῳπερ αἴσχιον, τὸ δὲ ἐλαττοῦσθαι τοῦ πλεονεκτεῖν κρεῖττον ὑπολαμβάνειν, τὸ δὲ καὶ τέκνα μᾶλλον ἀγαπᾶν ἢ τὸ ζῆν; Τῆς δὲ ἐχούσης οὕτω τίς ἂν εἴη γυνὴ δικαιοτέρα;
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 955Musonius continued
Well then, that is how these matters stand. Would a woman who practices philosophy not be just, a blameless partner in life, a good helper in concord,1400 a careful guardian of husband and children, and entirely free of love of gain or grasping?1401 Who could become such a woman more readily than the philosopher? For if she were truly a philosopher, she would necessarily consider doing injustice worse than suffering it, inasmuch as it is more shameful; would judge having less better than taking more than her share; and would love her children more than life itself. What woman could be more just than one so disposed?1402
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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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