Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias

αἰτίαν: cf. 465 a, where the reference was especially to the means employed (ὧν προσφέρει); here it is more general (ὧν πράττει).

ἡ δ᾽ ἰατρική: the addition of the substantive at the end of the first member was not necessary for clearness, but very conducive to it. Similarly Prot. 351 a.

ἡ δ᾽ ἑτέρα τῆς ἡδονῆς κτἑ.: another case of anacoluthon. If the speaker had followed the line of construction begun in the previous clause, we should have had some such phrase as οὔτε τὴν φύσιν κτἑ., on which τῆς ἡδονῆς would depend, as in the case of τούτου above. In true conversational style, however, he is diverted from his line of thought by the relative clause, and proceeds to a detailed account of the method of the ἐμπειρία which κομιδῇ ἀτέχνως ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν ἔρχεται. The result is that τῆς ἡδονῆς is left without government, and that too without the speaker or hearers noticing it.

ἀλόγως: as 465 a ὂ ἂν ᾖ ἄλογον πρᾶγμα, because the distinctive feature of a τέχνη consists in its ability δοῦναι λόγον. This must not be conceived as closely modifying διαριθμησαμένη, but as being a general criticism on οὐδὲν διαριθμησαμένη (“quite foolishly”).

ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν: probably belongs to the following negation. Cf. Apol. 17 a ἀληθές γε ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν οὐδὲν εἰρήκασιν. See on 450 b.

ᾧ δή: refers to the whole pre