98. εἴπατε: but εἴπατον in 353A otherwise there is no
change in the quotation. B and T have εἴπετε, but Stobaeus (who
cites from τοσοῦτον in 357Bto μεγίστη 357Ein his Florilegium)
reads εἴπατε. According to Rutherford (New Phrynichus, p. 219)
εἴπετε is not Attic, but this is doubtful, if any faith can be placed
in MS. authority.
104. ἧς τὸ πρόσθεν. This—the reading of the best MSS.—
has been unjustly rejected in favour of εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν; but εἰς τὸ
πρόσθεν can hardly be justified here. Sauppe refers to 339Dὀλίγον δὲ τοῦ ποιήματος εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν προελθών, where, however,
εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν goes with προελθών, and in all the cases which he
quotes there is a verb containing the idea of progress to go with
the phrase, and so in Ar. Knights. 751 ἀλλ᾽ ἐς τὸ πρόσθε χρὴ
παρεῖν᾽ ἐς τὴν πύκνα (where probably we should read παριέν᾽ for
παρεῖν᾽ as in Ach. 43 πάριτ᾽ ἐς τὸ πρόσθεν). Where there is no such
verb (which is very rarely the case), the phrase means ‘with a
view to what lies in front’, e.g. Alcib. I, 132B οὐκοῦν τοσοῦτον
μὲν ἡμῖν εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν πεπέρανται. It need hardly be said that the
phrase cannot mean simply ἔμπροσθεν. On the other hand ἧς
seems to be just what is needed: the construction in full would
be καὶ οὐ μόνον ἐπιστήμης (ἐνδείᾳ), ἀλλὰ καὶ (ταύτης τῆς ἐπιστήμης
ἐνδείᾳ) ἣν τὸ πρόσθεν ἔτι ὡμολογήκατε ὅτι μετρητική (sc. ἐστι: for
the omission of ἐστί after ὅτι cf. below 359Dἀπεδείχθη ἄρτι ὅτι
ἀδύνατον): ‘and from lack, not merely of knowledge, but of the
knowledge which you have further admitted above to be measuring knowledge’. The attraction of the relative extends to
μετρητική also in spite of ὅτι: cf. Apol. 37B ὧν εὖ οἶδ᾽ ὅτι κακῶν
ὄντων for τούτων ἃ εὖ οἶδ᾽ ὅτι κακὰ ὄντα (ὅτι being used with the
participle as in Gorg. 481E: see note on Apol. loc. cit.).
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