Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Κεφάλαιον ΛΓʹ

II.33.heading

Ὅτι ἡ ὁμοιότης τῶν τρόπων φιλίαν ἀπεργάζεται.

Εὐριπίδου

II.33.1

Ὅστις δ’ ὁμιλῶν ἥδεται κακοῖς ἀνήρ, οὐ πώποτ’ ἠρώτησα, γιγνώσκων ὅτι τοιοῦτός ἐστιν, οἷσπερ ἥδεται ξυνών.

Εὐριπίδου Βελλεροφόντῃ

II.33.2

Ἀνὴρ δὲ χρηστὸς χρηστὸν οὐ μισεῖ ποτε, κακῷ κακὸς δὲ συντέτηκεν ἡδοναῖς· φιλεῖ δὲ θοὐμόφυλον ἀνθρώπους ἄγειν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 33

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Chapter 33

II.33.heading

That similarity of character produces friendship.¹⁴⁷³

Euripides

II.33.1

As for a man who enjoys keeping bad company, I have never inquired, knowing that he is like those whose company he enjoys.¹⁴⁷⁴

Euripides, Bellerophon

II.33.2

Yet a good man never hates a good man; pleasures fuse a bad man with the bad; and what is of like kind tends to draw people.¹⁴⁷⁵

1473.Τρόποι are dispositions or ways of behaving. The chapter develops similarity of character through excerpts about companionship, shared pleasures, kinship and concord. Its surviving text begins immediately below this heading.

1474.Wachsmuth cites Euripides, fragment 809 in Nauck’s numbering, without naming a play in the heading. The precise question remains unexpressed; the following comparison indicates that the inquiry concerns the man’s character. No dramatic speaker is identified.

1475.Bellerophon, fragment 298 in Nauck. Συντέτηκεν pictures the bad as melted or fused together through pleasures. Θοὐμόφυλον combines τὸ ὁμόφυλον, what is of like kind; φιλεῖ with the infinitive means tends or is accustomed to, rather than loves in this construction.

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.

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