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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 Chapters 34–45 · II.38.heading–II.41.heading

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Κεφάλαιον ΛΗʹ

II.38.heading

Ὅτι ἐν ταῖς ἀτυχίαις τοὺς γνησίους τῶν φίλων διαγινώσκομεν.

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Κεφάλαιον ΛΘʹ

II.39.heading

Φιλικὰ παραγγέλματα.

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Κεφάλαιον Μʹ

II.40.heading

Περὶ ἔχθρας καὶ τοῦ ὁποῖόν τινα χρὴ εἶναι πρὸς τοὺς ἐχθρούς.

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Κεφάλαιον ΜΑʹ

II.41.heading

Περὶ τοῦ πῶς ἔστιν ἀπ’ ἐχθρῶν ὠφεληθῆναι.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 34–45

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Chapter 38

II.38.heading

That in misfortune we recognize which friends are genuine.

[Text missing]¹⁴⁹⁹

Chapter 39

II.39.heading

Precepts on friendship.

[Text missing]¹⁵⁰⁰

Chapter 40

II.40.heading

On enmity and how one should be disposed toward enemies.

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Chapter 41

II.41.heading

On how one can benefit from enemies.

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1499.Τοὺς γνησίους τῶν φίλων means the genuine ones among one’s friends. The title makes misfortune the occasion for recognizing them, but the missing text supplies no surviving examples here.

1500.Παραγγέλματα are instructions or precepts; φιλικά places them in the sphere of friendship. Only this general description survives here, not the individual instructions.

1501.Ὁποῖόν τινα asks what sort of person one should be in relation to enemies. The heading concerns one’s disposition toward them; the missing text does not allow its particular advice to be recovered.

1502.Ὠφεληθῆναι is to receive benefit. The title asks how such benefit is possible, but its missing excerpts cannot establish which ways of benefiting were intended.

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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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.