οἱ μὲν οὖν ἐγκύμονες. Here first the
two kinds of pregnancy, bodily and mental,—mentioned together in 206 B, C—are definitely separated.
πρὸς τὰς γ. μ. τρέπονται. Cp. 181 C, 191 E.
ἀθανασίαν
κτλ. Hug points out that by a few slight alterations
this can be turned into an elegiac couplet:— ἀθάνατον μνήμην κεὐδαιμονίαν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς εἰς τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον
πάντα ποριζόμενοι. Hommel had already printed εἰς...χρόνον as a half-verse.
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