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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.126.6
Ancient Greek
p. 958Μουσωνίου — συνέχεια
Ἀλλὰ νὴ Δία, φασί τινες, ὅτι αὐθάδεις ὡς ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ θρασείας εἶναι ἀνάγκη τὰς προσιούσας τοῖς φιλοσόφοις γυναῖκας, ὅταν ἀφέμεναι τοῦ οἰκουρεῖν ἐν μέσοις ἀναστρέφωνται τοῖς ἀνδράσι καὶ μελετῶσι λόγους καὶ σοφίζωνται καὶ ἀναλύωσι συλλογισμούς, δέον οἴκοι καθημένας ταλασιουργεῖν. Ἐγὼ δὲ οὐχ ὅπως τὰς γυναῖκας τὰς φιλοσοφούσας, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τοὺς ἄνδρας ἀξιώσαιμ’ ἂν, ἀφεμένους τῶν προσηκόντων ἔργων, εἶναι περὶ λόγους μόνον· ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅσους μεταχειρίζονται λόγους, τῶν ἔργων φημὶ δεῖν ἕνεκα μεταχειρίζεσθαι αὐτούς. Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἰατρικοῦ λόγου ὄφελος οὐδέν, ἐὰν μὴ πρὸς ὑγίειαν φέρῃ σώματος ἀνθρωπίνου, οὕτως οὐδ’ εἴ τινα φιλόσοφος ἔχει ἢ διδάσκει λόγον, οὐδὲν ὄφελος αὐτοῦ, ἐὰν μὴ φέρῃ πρὸς ἀρετὴν ψυχῆς ἀνθρωπίνης.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 959Musonius continued
“But, by Zeus,” some say, “women who attend philosophers must generally be headstrong and brazen, when they abandon staying at home, mix with men, practice arguments, devise subtleties and analyze syllogisms, when they ought to sit at home working wool.”1407 For my part, I would not approve of women who practice philosophy—or even men—abandoning their proper tasks and concerning themselves only with arguments.1408 Whatever arguments they use, I say they should use for the sake of action. For just as a medical argument is of no benefit unless it leads to the health of a human body, so any argument a philosopher possesses or teaches is of no benefit unless it leads to the virtue of a human soul.1409
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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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