Compare “Timaeus” 40 D. ↩
Compare supra, IV 704 E. ↩
Compare Republic X 619. ↩
Compare supra, 947. ↩
Compare supra, XI 915 D. ↩
Compare Aristotle Politics VII 6, § 5. ↩
Compare supra, 950 A, B. ↩
Compare supra, VI 766; IX 853 following. ↩
Compare supra, VII 811 D. ↩
Compare supra, IX 855 B. ↩
Compare “Phaedo” 63 B. ↩
Compare supra, IV 717 E, 719. ↩
Compare Republic X 620 E. ↩
Reading ἀπεργαζομένων with the MSS. and as in the text, not as in the notes of Stallbaum. The construction is harsh; but ἀπεικασμένα may be taken as if in apposition with the previous sentence. With τἧ may be supplied δυνάμει, and ἀπεργαζομένων may be regarded as a “genitive absolute.” ↩
Compare Laches 196 D. ↩
Compare Republic VII 537 B. ↩
Compare supra, X 893 A. ↩
Compare supra, X 896 C. ↩
Compare Republic X 607. ↩
Compare Republic VII 531 following. ↩
Compare Republic IX 592. ↩
Compare “Gorgias” 448 A. ↩
Compare “Gorgias” 499, 505; Republic VI 487. ↩
Compare “Symposium” 213 C. ↩
Compare “Symposium” 217 E and following. ↩
Compare “Symposium” 181 E. ↩
About £406. ↩
Compare Republic I 332 following. ↩
Compare Aristotle Politics VII 1. § 5. ↩
Compare Aristotle Politics I 5. § 7. ↩
I 9, 30; III 14, 11. ↩
Thucydides II 35–46. ↩
Reading οὐ κεῖνται, or taking οὐκ before ἀναιρεθέντες with κεῖνται. ↩
Compare Aristotle, Politics V 10, § 17. ↩
Compare Republic X 619 C. ↩
Homer Odyssey I 32. ↩
The author of these lines, which are probably of Pythagorean origin, is unknown. They are found also in the Anthology (Anthologia Palatina 10. 108). ↩
These words are omitted in several MSS. ↩
The reading is here uncertain. ↩
Some words appear to have dropped out here. ↩
Euripides, Antiope, fr. 20 (Dindorf). ↩
Or, reading πολυμάθειαν, “abundant learning.” ↩
A fragment from the pseudo-Homeric poem, “Margites.” ↩
The Homeric word μάργος is said to be here employed in allusion to the quotation from the “Margites” which Socrates has just made; but it is not used in the sense which it has in Homer. ↩
Compare Republic VI 487. ↩
Compare Aristotle Politics I 9. §§ 10, 14. ↩
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