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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.129.3
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p. 982Πλάτωνος — συνέχεια
Οὐκοῦν ἔν γε σώματι περὶ δύο παθήματε ταὐτὼ δύο τέχνα τινὲ ἐγενέσθην; — Τίνε τούτω; — Περὶ μὲν αἶσχος γυμναστική, περὶ δὲ νόσον ἰατρική. — Φαίνεται. — Οὐκοῦν καὶ περὶ μὲν ὕβριν καὶ ἀδικίαν καὶ δειλίαν ἡ κολαστικὴ πέφυκε τεχνῶν μάλιστα δὴ πασῶν προσήκουσα δίκη; — Τό γοῦν εἰκός, ὡς εἰπεῖν κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην δόξαν. — Τί δέ; περὶ ξύμπασαν ἄγνοιαν μῶν ἄλλην τινὰ ἢ διδασκαλικὴν ὀρθότερον εἴποι τις ἄν; — Οὐδεμίαν. — Φέρε δή· διδασκαλικῆς δὲ ἆρα ἓν μόνον γένος φατέον ἢ πλείω, δύο δέ τινε αὐτῆς εἶναι μεγίστω; σκόπει. — Σκοπῶ. — Καί μοι δοκοῦμεν τῇδε ἄν πῃ τάχιστα εὑρεῖν. — Πῇ; — Τὴν ἄγνοιαν ἰδόντες εἴ πῃ κατὰ μέσον αὐτὴ τομὴν ἔχει τινά. διπλῆ γὰρ αὕτη γιγνομένη δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὴν διδασκαλικὴν δύο ἀναγκάζει μόρια ἔχειν, ἓν ἐφ’ ἑνὶ τῶν αὐτῆς ἑκατέρῳ. — Τί οὖν; καταφανές πῃ σοι τὸ νῦν ζητούμενον;
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 983Plato continued
Then have not two arts arisen to deal with these two bodily conditions? — Which two? — Gymnastics for ugliness, medicine for disease. — It appears so.1451 — And for insolence, injustice and cowardice, is not the art of punishment naturally the most appropriate corrective of all the arts? — That is likely, at least, according to human opinion, so to speak.1452 — What then? For ignorance as a whole, could anyone name another art more correctly than teaching? — None. — Come, should we say that teaching has only one kind, or more, with two chief kinds within it? Consider. — I am considering. — And I think we might find the answer most quickly in this way. — How? — By seeing whether ignorance itself has some division down the middle. For if it is twofold, it clearly compels teaching also to have two parts, one for each of its two kinds.1453 — Well then, is what we are now seeking at all clear to you?
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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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