αἱ ἐπιστῆμαι. The word is used here in
the popular sense— “notitiae rerum in sensus cadentium”
(Rückert); cp. Rep. 476 D ff.
μελετᾶν. See note
on ἀμελέτητος 172 A supra.
λήθη γὰρ
κτλ. Cp. Phaedo 75 D
οὐ τοῦτο λήθην λέγομεν...ἐπιστήμης ἀποβολήν;
Phileb. 33 E
ἔστι γὰρ λήθη μνήμης ἔξοδος: Meno 81 C; Laws 732 C. For the πηγὴ
Λήθης (Μνημοσύνης) in Hades, see Pind.
fr. 130; Rohde, Psyche II. 209^{3}, 390^{1}.
[μνήμην]. This word is either interpolated
or corrupted (pace Rettig who attempts to defend it by citing
Phileb. 34 B): ἀπιούσης must refer to the same subst. as ἐξιούσης above, viz. τῆς
ἐπιστήμης, while καινήν must qualify the
same subst. as ἀπιούσης. For later reff. to this
doctrine, see Philo Jud. de nom. mut. p. 1060; Nemes. de nat. hom. 13, p. 166.
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