ἀσέβεια.
“Undutifulness,” impietas. Reverence to
parents and country was a matter of religious obligation; cp. Xen. Mem.
II. 2. 13 ἐὰν δέ τις γονέας μὴ θεραπεύῃ, τούτῳ δίκην
τε ἐπιτίθησι (ἡ πόλις) κτλ.; ib. IV. 4. 20; Rep. 615 C.
[περὶ] τὸν ἕτερον. Perhaps an original πῃ was
mistaken for a compendium of περί: for the
combination ἀλλά πῃ, cp. Theaet. 191 B
ἀλλά πῃ δυνατόν.
ἃ δὴ...ἰατρεύειν. The infinitives may
be taken as epexegetic of ἃ (so Stallb., Zeller), or
ἃ may be construed separately as accus. of respect
(“qua in caussa” Ast; “in welcher Beziehung”
Hommel). There is no need to eject or emend τοὺς
Ἔρωτας: the phrase used 4 ll. above, περὶ
Ἔρωτος φυλακήν τε καὶ ἴασιν, supports Ἔρωτας here.
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