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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.129.6
Ancient Greek
p. 988Πλάτωνος — συνέχεια
Τῷ τοι ταύτης τῆς δόξης ἐπὶ ἐκβολὴν ἄλλῳ τρόπῳ στέλλονται. — Τίνι δή; — Διερωτῶσιν ὧν ἂν οἴηταί τίς τι πέρι λέγειν λέγων μηδέν· εἶθ’ ἅτε πλανωμένων τὰς δόξας ῥᾳδίως ἐξετάζουσι, καὶ συνάγουσι δὴ τοῖς λόγοις εἰς ταὐτόν τε τιθέασι παρ’ ἀλλήλας, τιθέντες δ’ ἐπιδεικνύουσιν αὐτὰς αὐταῖς ἅμα περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν πρὸς τὰ αὐτὰ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐναντίας· οἱ δὲ ὁρῶντες ἑαυτοῖς μὲν χαλεπαίνουσι, πρὸς δὲ τοὺς ἄλλους ἡμεροῦνται καὶ τούτῳ δὴ τῷ τρόπῳ τῶν περὶ αὐτοὺς μεγάλων καὶ σκληρῶν δοξῶν ἀπαλλάττονται πασῶν ἀπαλλαγῶν ἀκούειν τε ἡδίστην καὶ τῷ πάσχοντι βεβαιότατα γιγνομένην.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 989Plato continued
That is why they set about removing this opinion in another way. — What way? — They question a person about the things on which he thinks he is saying something when he is saying nothing. Then they readily examine the opinions of these people, who are wandering in them, and gather them in discussion and set them side by side in one place.1460 By setting them together, they show that the opinions contradict one another at the same time, about the same things, in relation to the same things, and in the same respects.1461 Those who see this become angry with themselves but gentler toward others. In this way they are freed from their grand and rigid opinions about themselves—a release that is the most pleasant of all to hear about, and comes about most securely in the person experiencing it.1462
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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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