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1 ὑποπεσόντες: cf. on 494 Cὑποκείσονται.
2 σχήματα was often used for the figures of dancing. Cf. Laws 669 D, Aristoph.Peace 323, Xen.Symp. 7. 5, Eurip.Cyclops 221. Isoc.Antid. 183 uses it of gymnastics.
3 Cf. Phaedr. 241 Aἄλλος γεγονώς, Demosth. xxxiv. 13ἕτερος ἤδη . . . καὶ οὐχ ὁ αὐτός.
4 Cf. Lucian, Nigrinus 15ἄγευστος μὲν ἐλευθερίας, ἀπείρατος δὲ παρρησίαςAristot.Eth. Nic. 1176 b 19, 1179 b 15.
5 Cf. Laws 730 C, 705 A.
6 Cf. Phaedr. 239 Dἓν κεφάλαιον
7 Cf. Gorgias 473 C-E.
8 Cf. the defiance of 473 A and 579 Dκἂν εἰ μή τῳ δοκεῖ, Phaedr. 277 Eοὐδὲ ἂν ὁ πᾶς ὄχλος αὐτὸ ἐπαινέσῃ, and Phileb. 67 B, also Gorg. 473 E “you say what nobody else would say,” and perhaps 500 Dδιαβολὴ δ᾽ ἐν πᾶσι πολλή. Cf. Schopenhauer's “The public has a great many bees in its bonnet.”
9 Cf. Tim. 75 D, Rep. 555 A, Parmen. 133 A. For the analogy of individual and state cf. on 591 E.
10 Cf. 577 A, 591 D, 619 Aἀνέκπληκτος, Crat. 394 B, Gorg. 523 D, Protag. 355 B. Cf. also Epictet. iii. 22. 28ὑπὸ τῆς φαντασίας περιλαμπομένοις, and Shelley, “ . . . accursed thing to gaze on prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye.”
11 εἴ τινες: Cf. Gorg. 521 Bἐάν τι ἔχω.
12 For the contrast of tyranny and kingdom cf. 587 B, Polit. 276 E. It became a commonplace in later orations on the true king. Cf. Dümmler, Prolegomena, pp. 38-39.
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