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τοῦ καλοῦ: is said with bitter irony. Callicles shows here, as well as in 486 b above, the code of morals prevalent at that time and which Xen. expresses in the praise awarded to Cyrus, Anab. i. 9. 11 φάνερος ἦν εἴ τίς τι ἀγαθὸν ἢ κακὸν ποιήσειεν αὐτὸν, νικᾶν πειρώμενος.
ἣν φῂς σὺ διώκειν: as above 482 e φάσκων τὴν ἀλήθειαν διώκειν.
ἐπικουρίαν: capacity to help (one's self); i.e. to provide means for pleasure and to ward off hindrances. So also ἐπικουρεῖν and ἐπίκουρος. Cf. below, the recapitulation of Socrates.
τὰ δὲ ἄλλα κτἑ.: the subject, which at first is only inferred as the opposite of the three qualities specified, is nearer specified first by the characteristic addition τὰ καλλωπίσματα (affectations) and then by a definite expression which at the same time shows Callicles' opinion.
φλυαρία κτἑ.: is predicate.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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