ὅπως ἂν φαίνηται. φαίνηται here, as δόξει
above, is emphatic. A comparison with 195 A shows
that Socr. is alluding especially to Agathon's oration.
οὐ γάρ δή που
κτλ. Cp. Gorg. 459 A
οὐ γὰρ δή που ἔν γε τοῖς εἰδόσι τοῦ ἰατροῦ
πιθανώτερος ἔσται: and for οὐ γάρ
που... 200 B, Euthyph. 13 A.
καὶ καλῶς γ̓
κτλ. Earlier editors generally print a full stop
after εἰδόσι. Socr. here sarcastically endorses the
approval with which Agathon's ἔπαινος had been
received (ὡς πρεπόντως εἰρηκότος κτλ., 198 A).
ἡ γλῶσσα οὖν
κτλ. Euripides' line (ἡ
γλῶσσ᾽ ὀμώμοχ᾽ , ἡ δὲ φρὴν ἀνώμοτος
Hippol. 612) soon became a familiar quotation: see Ar.
Thesm. 275, Ran. 101, 1471; Theaet. 154 D; Cic. de offic. III.
29. 108 iuravi lingua, mentem iniuratam gero.
χαιρέτω δή. “I say good-bye to
it”: cp. Laws 636 D
τὸ...τοῦ μύθου χαιρέτω: id.
886 D. Rettig suggests that here the formula may be intended as another echo of
Euripides: cp. Med. 1044 οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην:
χαιρέτω βουλεύματα | τὰ
πρόσθεν: Hippol. 113.
οὐ γὰρ ἔτι
κτλ. “I withdraw my offer to
eulogize.” ἐγκωμιάζω must here be a
“present for future” (see Madv. Gr. Synt.
§ 110. 3), since Socr. has not yet begun the eulogy.
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