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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapters 34–45 · II.42.heading–II.45.heading
Ancient Greek
p. 1012Κεφάλαιον ΜΒʹ
Περὶ τοῦ εὐεργετεῖν.
deest.
Κεφάλαιον ΜΓʹ
Ὅτι μείζων ἡ χάρις ἐν καιρῷ δοθεῖσα.
deest.
Κεφάλαιον ΜΔʹ
Περὶ τοῦ ἀντευεργετεῖν.
deest.
Κεφάλαιον ΜΕʹ
Ὅτι τοὺς πονηροὺς οὐ χρὴ εὖ ποιεῖν οὐδὲ παρ’ αὐτῶν εὐεργετεῖσθαι.
deest.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 34–45
p. 1013Chapter 42
On doing good to others.
[Text missing]1503
Chapter 43
That a favor is greater when given at the right time.
[Text missing]1504
Chapter 44
On doing good in return.
[Text missing]1505
Chapter 45
That one should neither benefit the wicked nor accept benefits from them.
[Text missing]1506
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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.
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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