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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 33 · II.33.16
Ancient Greek
p. 1006Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Φαίδρου
⟨Οὐ⟩ γὰρ δή ποτε εἵμαρται κακὸν κακῷ φίλον οὐδ’ ἀγαθὸν μὴ φίλον ἀγαθῷ εἶναι.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 33
p. 1007Plato, from the Phaedrus
For it is ⟨not⟩ ever ordained that a bad person be a friend to a bad person, or that a good person be no friend to a good person.1494
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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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