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32. ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν is to be taken with ξυλλήβδην, which goes
with the verbal noun ἀνατροπαί: ‘almost wholesale subversion of
their house’. ξυλλήβδην means ‘not κατὰ σμικρόν, but so as to
embrace everything’: cf. Rep. 1. 344AB τυραννὶς ἣ οὐ κατὰ
σμικρὸν τἀλλότρια καὶ λάθρᾳ καὶ βίᾳ ἀφαιρεῖται—ἀλλὰ ξυλλήβδην,
and Theognis, 147 ἐν δὲ δικαιοσύνῃ συλλήβδην πᾶσ᾽ ἀρετὴ 'νι. For
ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν see on 317A
34. οἴεσθαί γε χρή: a way of answering one's own question:
Crito, 53D, 54B.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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