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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.129.4
Ancient Greek
p. 984Πλάτωνος — συνέχεια
Ἀγνοίας δ’ οὖν μέγα τί μοι δοκῶ καὶ χαλεπὸν ἀφοριζόμενον ὁρᾶν εἶδος, πᾶσι τοῖς ἄλλοις αὐτῆς ἀντίσταθμον μέρεσι. — Ποῖον δή; — Τὸ μὴ κατειδότα τι δοκεῖν εἰδέναι· δι’ οὗ κινδυνεύει πάντα ὅσα διανοίᾳ σφαλλόμεθα γίγνεσθαι πᾶσιν. — Ἀληθῆ. — Καὶ δὴ καὶ τούτῳ γε οἶμαι μόνῳ τῆς ἀγνοίας ἀμαθίαν τοὔνομα προσρηθῆναι. — Πάνυ γε. — Τί δὲ δὴ ⟨τῷ⟩ τῆς διδασκαλικῆς ἄρα μέρει τῷ τοῦτο ἀπαλλάττοντι λεκτέον; — Οἶμαι μέν, ὦ ξένε, τὸ μὲν ἄλλο δημιουργικὰς διδασκαλίας, τοῦτο δὲ ἐνθάδε γε παιδείαν ὑφ’ ἡμῶν κεκλῆσθαι. — Καὶ γὰρ σχεδόν, ὦ Θεαίτητε, ἐν πᾶσιν Ἕλλησιν. ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἡμῖν καὶ τοῦτο ἐπισκεπτέον, εἰ ἄτομόν ἐστιν ἤδη πᾶν ἢ τινα ἔχει διαίρεσιν ἀξίαν ἐπωνυμίας. — Οὐκοῦν χρὴ σκοπεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 985Plato continued
Well, I think I see a large and troublesome kind of ignorance marked off, weighing against all its other parts. — What kind? — Thinking that one knows something when one has not understood it. It seems likely that all the errors we make in thought arise for everyone through this. — True. — And I think this alone among the forms of ignorance has been given the name lack of learning. — Certainly.1454 — What, then, should we call the part of instruction that removes this?1455 — I think, Stranger, that we call the other branch instruction in crafts, but this one, here at least, education. — Indeed, Theaetetus, that is so among almost all Greeks. But we must also examine whether this is now wholly indivisible, or has some division deserving a name. — Then we must examine it.1456
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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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