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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume II

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapters 34–45 · II.42.heading–II.45.heading

Ancient Greek

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Κεφάλαιον ΜΒʹ

II.42.heading

Περὶ τοῦ εὐεργετεῖν.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΜΓʹ

II.43.heading

Ὅτι μείζων ἡ χάρις ἐν καιρῷ δοθεῖσα.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΜΔʹ

II.44.heading

Περὶ τοῦ ἀντευεργετεῖν.

deest.

Κεφάλαιον ΜΕʹ

II.45.heading

Ὅτι τοὺς πονηροὺς οὐ χρὴ εὖ ποιεῖν οὐδὲ παρ’ αὐτῶν εὐεργετεῖσθαι.

deest.

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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapters 34–45

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Chapter 42

II.42.heading

On doing good to others.

[Text missing]1503

Chapter 43

II.43.heading

That a favor is greater when given at the right time.

[Text missing]1504

Chapter 44

II.44.heading

On doing good in return.

[Text missing]1505

Chapter 45

II.45.heading

That one should neither benefit the wicked nor accept benefits from them.

[Text missing]1506

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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.