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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 33 · II.33.3–II.33.6

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Εὐριπίδου Πελιάσιν

II.33.3

⟨Ὁ⟩ γὰρ ξυνὼν κακὸς ⟨μὲν⟩ ἢν τύχῃ γεγὼς τοιούσδε τοὺς ξυνόντας ἐκπαιδεύεται, χρηστοὺς δ’ ὁ χρηστός· ἀλλὰ τὰς ὁμιλίας ἐσθλὰς διώκειν, ὦ νέοι, σπουδάζετε.

Μενάνδρου

II.33.4

Ἡ τῶν ὁμοίων αἵρεσις μάλιστά πως τὴν τοῦ βίου σύγκρασιν ὁμόνοιαν ποιεῖ.

Εὐριπίδου Ἀντιγόνῃ

II.33.5

Νέοι νέοισι συννοσοῦσι τἄφρονα.

Μενάνδρου Περικειρομένῃ

II.33.6

⟨Οὕ⟩τω ποθεινόν ἐστιν ὁμότροπος φίλος.

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Euripides, Daughters of Pelias

II.33.3

For ⟨the⟩ man you associate with, if he happens ⟨indeed⟩ to be bad,¹⁴⁷⁶ trains his companions to be like himself; while a good man trains them to be good. So, young men, make it your concern to seek out noble company.¹⁴⁷⁷

Menander

II.33.4

Choosing those who are alike, more than anything perhaps, brings concord to life’s mingling.¹⁴⁷⁸

Euripides, Antigone

II.33.5

The young share the follies of the young.¹⁴⁷⁹

Menander, The Woman with Her Hair Shorn

II.33.6

⟨So⟩ desirable is a friend of like character.¹⁴⁸⁰

1476.The printed supplements ⟨Ὁ⟩ and ⟨μὲν⟩ are reflected by ⟨the⟩ and ⟨indeed⟩. The particle marks the first side of the contrast between a bad companion and a good one.

1477.Daughters of Pelias, fragment 612 in Nauck. These verses also occur at II.31.4 and are retained again in their second place in the anthology. Association there illustrates education; here it develops the chapter’s concern with character and friendship.

1478.Wachsmuth cites Com. IV, p. 324, unassigned fragment 468, without naming a play. The English understands τῶν ὁμοίων as those alike whom one chooses. Σύγκρασις is a blending or mingling; the image presents shared life as a mixture brought into concord. Πως qualifies the assertion.

1479.Antigone, fragment 160 in Nauck. Συννοσοῦσι, from συννοσέω, pictures those involved as sharing another’s sickness: here the shared condition is folly. Τἄφρονα combines τὰ ἄφρονα, foolish things. The isolated verse identifies no speaker or particular offense.

1480.Wachsmuth cites Com. IV, p. 185, fragment 1. Only the initial ⟨Οὕ⟩ of οὕτω, so, is supplied in Greek; the English marks the resulting whole word ⟨So⟩. Ὁμότροπος describes someone whose character or disposition is like one’s own.

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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