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.46.15

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Ancient Greek

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Ἐκ τῆς περὶ φιλίας Ἐπιστολῆς

II.46.15

Ὡς μέντοι λαμπρόν ἐστιν εὖ ποιεῖν, οὕτως ἀμειπτέον· ... ἵνα μὴ μόνον ἀχαριστίας ὄφλῃ τις δίκην, ἀλλὰ καὶ βλάβης κοινοῦ τῶν εὖ πεισομένων εἰς αὐτοὺς ἑτέρων ἀνακοπῇ πρὸς εὐεργεσίαν.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 46

p. 1023

From the Letter on Friendship

II.46.15

Indeed, just as doing good is noble, so one must repay it.¹⁵²⁴ ...¹⁵²⁵ lest one incur a charge not only of ingratitude but also of damaging the common interest of those who would receive benefits, by holding others back from benefiting them.¹⁵²⁶

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.