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ἐπιρρεῖν: Callicles takes up the simile of Socrates; but at the same time, in this treatment of it there may be some traces of the teaching of Gorgias, if, as is supposed, he accepted Empedocles' ideas of flux and reflux in his views of physics. Cf. Meno 76 c βούλει οὖν σοι κατὰ Γοργίαν ἀποκρίνωμαι;—Οὐκοῦν λέγετε ἀπορροάς τινας τῶν ὔντων κατ᾽ Ἐμπεδοκλέα; καὶ πόρους εἰς οὓς καὶ δἰ ὧν αἱ ἀπορροαὶ πορεύονται. In this light the word πορίζεσθαι gains especial importance.
ἐκροαῖς: this compound with ἐκ is very unusual, but also here very exact.
χαραδριοῦ: according to Arist. Anim. Hist. ix. 11, the χαραδριός was a bird of ugly voice and color, which lived in chasms and clefts of the rock, and came forth only at night. Others describe it as a very greedy bird, ὃς ἅμα τῷ ἐσθίειν ἐκκρίνει. It is this peculiarity which explains the reference here. The duck has that reputation with us.ἀλλ᾽ οὐ: we might also have simple οὐ (456 e), or καὶ οὐ (Kr. 59, 1, 10).
τὸ τοιόνδε λέγεις: viz. as the above (ἀλλ᾽ . . . ἐπιρρεῖν) used expressions. The following answer of Callicles, λέγω κτἑ., saves Socrates the trouble of enumeration.τὸ τοιόνδε: see on 490 e.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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