The Portable Plato (78 page)

92

Cp. supra ii., p. 339

93

Making the answer of Socrates begin at καl γάρ πρδς κ.τ.λ.

94

Il. iv. 218.

95

Cp. Plato, Laws.

96

Or, “that for their own good you are making these people miserable.”

97

Od. i. 352.

98

Reading
µń δεiν
dνrπpάτεƖν, without a comma after
δεɩν.

99

Od. xx. 17.

100

Reading πρoστατńσετoν with Bekker; or, if the reading πρoστńσετoν, which is found in the MSS., be adopted, then the nominative must be supplied from the previous sentence: “Music and gymnastic will place in authority over ...” This is very awkward, and the awkwardness is increased by the necessity of changing the subject at πηρńσετoν.

101

Reading έτɩ έγώ ε
l
π
v
.

102

Or, inserting
k
ai! before
voµlµωv,
“a deceiver about beauty or goodness or principles of justice or law.”

103

Reading
ω
στ
e εv µε παpαµvθei.

104

Reading with Paris A. καì καλovύ ...

105

Reading
l
ατρδ
v µεv l
ατρɩκò
v
τń
v
ψvχηv Ծv
τα.

106

Cp. supra iv., PP- 413 ff.

107

II.
vii. 321,

108

II. viii. 162.

109

Probably Works and Days, 121 foll.

110

Reading στραγγε
v
oµεέ
v
ψ.

111

Or, applying δπως δέ
κυβερνńσεɩ
to the mutineers, “But only understanding (έ
παtoντaς
) that he (the mutinous pilot) must rule in spite of other people, never considering that there is an art of command which may be practised in combination with the pilot’s art.”

112

Or, taking παρàin another sense, “trained to virtue on their principles.”

113

Putting a comma after
τών αναγκαlων.

114

Or, “will they not deserve to be called sophisms,” ...

115

Heracleitus said that the sun was extinguished every evening and relighted every morning.

116

Reading
κατηκбщ or κατηκбoɩs.

117

Reading ń κα έάv oύτω
θεwνταɩ
without a question, and
άλλolαν rot:
or, retaining the question and taking ά
λλolαν δóξαν
in a new sense: “Do you mean to say really that, viewing him in this light, they will be of another mind from yours, and answer in another strain?”

118

Cp. supra iv., p. 437.

119

Or, separating
καì µάλα
from ϭ
ξɩoν,
“True, he said, and a noble thought”: or ăξɩoν τϭ
δɩανóηµα
may be a gloss.

120

Reading ά
νńρ καλós
: or reading ά
νńρ καλώς,
“I quite well knew from the very first, that you, &c.”

121

A play upon
τoκós,
which means both “offspring” and “interest.”

122

Reading
δɩανooù.

123

Reading ă
νɩσα.

124

Reading ώ
νπερ έκεiνo εìκóνων.

125

Reading
παρóντα.

126

In allusion to a game in which two parties fled or pursued according as an oyster-shell which was thrown into the air fell with the dark or light side uppermost.

127

Reading
oνσαν έ
πάνoδoν.

128

Meaning either (1) that they integrate the number because they deny the possibility of fractions; or (2) that division is regarded by them as a process of multiplication, for the fractions of one continue to be units

129

Or; “close alongside of their neighbour’s instruments, as if to catch a sound from them.”

130

0mitting ένταùθα δέ
πρϭ
s φαντϭµατα.
The word θεɩα is bracketed by Stallbaum.

131

A play upon the word
vδµos
, which means both “law” and “strain.”

132

γραµµsά
literally “lines,” probably the starting-point of a race-course.

133

i.e. a cyclical number, such as 6, which is equal to the sum of its divisors 1, 2, 3, so that when the circle or time represented by 6 is completed, the lesser times or rotations represented by 1, 2, 3 are also completed.

134

Probably the numbers, 3, 4, 5, 6 of which the three first=the sides of the Pythagorean triangle. The terms will then be 3
⁸
, 4
³
, 5
⁸
, which together=6
⁸
=216.

135

Or the first a square which is 100x100=10,000. The whole number will then be 17,5oo=a square of 100, and an oblong of 100 by 75.

136

Reading
πρµńkη δέ.

137

Or, “consisting of two numbers squared upon irrational diameters,” &C.=100.

138

Cp. supra viii., p. 586.

139

Omitting ń τɩνos

140

Reading
κατ έ
Tiµα
µάλστα Eù, ń
v
δ έγw, according to Schneider’s excellent emendation.

141

Omitting τí µńν έφη.

142

Or, “the philosophical temper of the condemned.”

143

Herod. i. 5 5.

144

Or, “opinions or appetites such as are deemed to be good.”

145

Reading with Grasere and Hermann
τí oτώµεθα,
and omitting oύϭέν, which is not found in the best MSS.

146

729 nearly equals the number of days and nights in the year.

147

Or, “take up his abode there.”

148

Omitting eis.

149

Or, “with his nouns and verbs.”

150

Reading εìδωλoπoɩoùντα ..... ά
φεστώτα
.

151

Or, if we accept Madvig’s ingenious but unnecessary emendation άσóµεθα, “At all events we will sing, that” &c.

152

Reading άπελυσάµεθα.

153

Reading ńµών.

154

Reading αύ
τó
χ
εɩρα
ς.

155

Reading καì ŏτɩ.

156

Reading
ε
ì
κoστńν.