διήρθρου. “Shaped
out,” “moulded”; cp. Phaedrus 253 D. Cp. Aelian, H. A. II. 19, V.
39, VI. 3.
τὸν καλάποδα. “The (cobbler's)
last”: Lat. forma (Hor. Sat. II. 3.
106), or tentipellium. Suidas (s.v.
κᾶλα) κᾶλον γὰρ τὸ ξύλον:
ἐξ οὗ καὶ καλόπους, ὁ ξύλινος ποῦς.
μνημεῖον...πάθους. The residue of the
wrinkles was intended to serve as a memorial “of man's first
disobedience...and all our woe.” This repeats the idea already expressed in
190 E above (ἵνα θεώμενος
κτλ.).
ἡ φύσις. Creuzer renders this by
“nos homines,” disapproving of Ficinus'
“natura” and Schleierm.'s “forma”: but
φύσις is no mere periphrasis but connotes original nature or form.
ποθοῦν ἕκαστον
κτλ. To attempt to restore the Bodleian reading
ξυνεῖναι, as several of the later critics do,
involves too much alteration; thus Hug writes τῷ αὑτοῦ
ξυνεῖναι, Usener ἐπόθουν...τῷ αὑτοῦ
ξυνεῖναι. Notice the “constructio ad sensum,” ποθοῦν...περιβάλλοντες...ἀπέθνῃσκον. There is an echo of
this passage in Philo de op. mund. 53 p. 36 M.
τῆς ἄλλης ἀργίας. “General
inactivity,” implying that the λιμός itself
was due to ἀργία. Cp. Rep. 554 A, C (with Adam ad loc.).
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