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τὸν δὲ κείμενον οὔ: repeats for
emphasis what had already been said before ἀλλά. Cf. Parm. 155 d ἐπειδὴ δὲ χρόνου μετέχει τὸ ἕν (since the one partakes of time), ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἀνάγκη καὶ τοῦ ποτὲ (the past) μετέχειν καὶ τοῦ ἔπειτα (the future) καὶ τοῦ νῦν, εἴ περ χρόνου μετέχει; Gorg. 521 d οὐ πρὸς χάριν λέγων ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ βέλτιστον, οὐ πρὸς τὸ ἥδιστον.
17 ταὐτὰ ταῦτα: in this same way. Cf. Meno 90 d, ταὐτὸ τοῦτο Symp. 178 e and frequently.
γενέσθαι: see on c above. Cf. also e and 345 α β below.
ἄλλου ποιητοῦ: Xen. Mem. i. 2. 20 quotes the verse without naming the author. Perhaps it was an elegiac poet; in any case the poem had a gnomic character. Sophocles knew the verse, since, in Ant. 365, he makes the Chorus say, σοφόν τι τὸ μηχανόεν | τέχνας ὑπὲρ ἐλπίδ᾽ ἔχων | ποτὲ μὲν κακόν, ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπ̓ ἐσθλὸν ἕρπει one having inventive skill in a remarkable degree, beyond what one would expect, now falls into disaster, again attains to prosperity. See Bergk Poet. Lyr. iii. 735^{4}.
Hermann Sauppe. James A. Towle. Commentary on Plato: Protagoras. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1889.
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