Stobæus

Stobæus, JOANNES, a native of Stobi in Macedonia, who compiled for his son Septimus, about 500 A.D., an anthology in four books from as many as 500 Greek poets and prose-writers. It has preserved for us fragments from many works now lost, and is especially rich in quotations from the Greek dramatists. Originally forming one whole, the work in course of time became divided into two divisions, each of two books: Eclogæ Physicæ et Ethicæ (ed. Gaisford, 1850; Meineke, 1860-64), and Anthologion or Florilegium (Wachsmuth, 1884), containing the precepts on political and ethical subjects (ed. Gaisford, 1822-25; Meineke, 1856-57).