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1 For the challenge to refute or accept the argument Cf. Soph. 259 A, 257 A, Gorg. 467 B-C, 482 B, 508 A-B, Phileb. 60 D-E.
2 Or “to take the bull by the horns.” For ὁμόσε ἰέναι see What Plato Said, p. 457, on Euthyph. 3 C. Cf.ἐγγὺς ἰόντεςPhaedo 95 B.
3 Herbert Spencer nearly does this: “Death by starvation from inability to catch prey shows a falling short of conduct from its ideal.” It recalls the argument with which Socrates catches Callicles in Gorg. 498 E, that if all pleasures are alike those who feel pleasure are good and those who feel pain are bad.
4 For the future indicative after εἰ, usually minatory or monitory in tone, cf. Aristoph.Birds 759, Phileb. 25 D.
5 Cf. Phaedo 107 C, 84 B, Blaydes on Aristoph.Acharn. 757.
6 μάλα is humorous, as in 506 D, Euthydem 298 D, Symp. 189 A.
7 Cf. Horace, Epist. i. 2. 32 “ut iugulent hominem surgunt de nocte latrones.”
8 For the metaphor Cf. Proverbs viii. 12σοφία κατεσκήνωσα βουλήν. Plato personifies injustice, as he does justice in 612 D,σκιαγραφία in 602 D, bravery in Laches 194 A,κολαστική in Soph. 229 A,κολακευτικήGorg. 464 C,σμικρότηςParmen. 150 AπονηρίαApol. 39 A-B, and many other abstract conceptions. See further Phileb. 63 A-B, 15 D, 24 A, Rep. 465 A-B, Laws 644 C, Cratyl. 438 D.
9 σχολῇ: cf. 354 C, Phaedo 106 D.
10 Cf. 345 D.
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