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τοῦτῳ: some take as depending upon ἐπιβουλεύων, anticipating κολοῦσαι αὐτό, but it is dat. of means, “through the making of the poem.”ἐπιβουλεύων: with the inf. means endeavor stealthily, plan to do a thing unobserved. Cf. Symp. 203 b ἡ Πενία ἐπιβουλεύουσα παιδίον ποιήσασθαι, Rep. viii. 566 b βιαίῳ δὴ θανάτῳ ἐπιβουλεύουσιν ἀποκτιννύναι λάθρᾳ (τὸν τύραννον).κολοῦσαι: often has something exalted as its obj., cf. Hdt. vii. 10. 5 φιλέει γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τὰ ὑπερέχοντα κολούειν.—Protagoras, professing to adhere to the ethical question raised
by Socrates, while merely changing its mode of treatment, has raised a wholly different one (cf. 339 α β). What Socrates thinks of the value of a discussion of the poets, he indicates below (cf. 347 e). Now, therefore, meeting Protagoras on his own ground, and assuming that in the examination of Simonides's poem a discussion of virtue is the real end, he purposes to find the true doctrine in the poem; and, as the first step, discovers in it a polemic aim. If this is contrary to the view of Protagoras, the latter has full opportunity to refute it (see on 347 a).
Hermann Sauppe. James A. Towle. Commentary on Plato: Protagoras. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1889.
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