ἔν γε ὄχλῳ: Gorgias wishes to protect himself by a restriction which, while it defers, for a brief interval, his defeat, shows plainly the weakness of his professions. See the criticism of Socrates which follows.
ἐν τοῖς μὴ εἰδόσι: the reason for a change of neg. such as occurs in this and the following clauses is often hard to perceive. Here it seems to be the oscillation from generic to particular, which is going on continually in Socrates' mind. Having made his general point with μή, he recurs to the case under discussion with οὐ. So ὁ δὲ μὴ ἰατρός . . . ἀνεπιστήμων (cf. before, ἐν τοῖς μὴ εἰδόσι), but ὁ οὐκ εἰδὼς, ἐν οὐκ εἰδόσι. It would be possible, but not so good, to take the latter cases as examples of adhaerescent οὐ.
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