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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 46 · II.46.9–II.46.11

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Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

II.46.9

Ἀεὶ δ’ ὁ σωθεὶς ἐστιν ἀχάριστος φύσει.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ

II.46.9a

Ἅμ’ ἠλέηται καὶ τέθνηκεν ἡ χάρις, ἣν δεόμενος τότ’ ἀθάνατον σχήσειν ἔφη.

Εὐριπίδου Πελιάσιν

II.46.10

Ἐν τοῖσι μὲν δεινοῖσιν ὡς φίλοι φίλων· ὅταν δὲ πράξωσ’ εὖ, διωθοῦνται χάριν, αὐτοὶ δι’ αὑτοὺς εὐτυχεῖν ἡγούμενοι.

Φιλήμονος

II.46.11

Ὅταν τις ἡμῶν ἀμέριμνον ἔχῃ βίον, οὐκ ἐπικαλεῖται τὴν τύχην εὐδαίμονα· ἐπὴν δὲ λύπαις περιπέσῃ καὶ πράγμασιν, εὐθὺς προσάπτει τῇ τύχῃ τὴν αἰτίαν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 46

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From the same author

II.46.9

Yet the one who has been saved is always ungrateful by nature.¹⁵¹⁶

From the same author

II.46.9a

No sooner has he been pitied than gratitude is dead, which, when in need, he said he would keep immortal.¹⁵¹⁷

Euripides, Daughters of Pelias

II.46.10

In danger, what friends they are to their friends! But when they fare well, they thrust gratitude aside, thinking their success is their own doing.¹⁵¹⁸

Philemon

II.46.11

When one of us has an untroubled life, he does not call Fortune blessed; but when he falls into grief and troubles, he immediately lays the blame on Fortune.¹⁵¹⁹

1516.The same-author heading continues Menander; Wachsmuth cites unassigned fragment 472, verse 1. Ἀεί, always, and φύσει, by nature, preserve the saying’s sweeping formulation. Being saved is the benefit whose recipient is accused of ingratitude.

1517.Wachsmuth separates 9a from 9 while citing these as verses 2-3 of the same unassigned fragment 472. The simultaneous receipt of pity and death of gratitude contradict the earlier promise to keep gratitude immortal. The local σχήσειν, would keep, is retained.

1518.Daughters of Pelias, fragment 611 in Nauck. The first line is an exclamation with no expressed verb. The contrast is between professed friendship in danger and the claim of self-sufficient success afterward; δι’ αὑτούς attributes prosperity to themselves.

1519.The printed heading names Philemon, but Wachsmuth also cites an attribution to Menander, Com. IV, p. 239, unassigned fragment 20. The local εὐδαίμονα is an adjective agreeing with Fortune, retained as blessed, rather than the alternative participle describing the fortunate person. The contrast with assigning blame makes the withheld acknowledgment clear.

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.