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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 32 · II.32.heading

Ancient Greek

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Κεφάλαιον ΛΒʹ

II.32.heading

Ὅτι κάλλιστον ἡ φιλία τῶν ἀγαθῶν.

deest.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 32

p. 995

Chapter 32

II.32.heading

That friendship is the finest of good things.

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About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 edition are in the public domain. The supplied English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are published with the site owner’s authorization.