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Μὴ τοίνυν ἀνάγκαζε. “I. q. μὴ ἀναγκαῖον νόμιζε, v. Heindorf ad Euthyd. (sic) p. 432 C” (Stallb.). For this use to denote logical compulsion, cp. also Crat. 432 E μὴ ἀνάγκαζε πάντ᾽ ἔχειν τὰ γράμματα...ἀλλ᾽ ἔα κτλ.: Parmen. 133 C.

Τῶν μὴ εἰδότων. Sc. παρὰ: cp. Crat. 408 D, Soph. 243 D, etc. A similar distinction had been drawn twice by Socr. himself, see 194 B ff., 199 A.


The Symposium of Plato. R. G. Bury. 1909. Cambridge. W. Heffer and Sons.

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