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εἶεν according to Timaeus (Lexicon s. v.) expresses συγκατάθεσις μὲν τῶν εἰρημένων, συναφὴ δὲ πρὸς τὰ μέλλοντα. It rarely expresses συγκατάθεσις (‘assent’) and no more: see on IV 436 C. The word was pronounced εἶἑν with intervocalic aspiration (Uhlig in Fl. Jahrb. 1880 pp. 790 ff.) and may possibly be a compound of εἷα and ἕν (used as in ἓν μὲν τόδ᾽ ἤδη τῶν τριῶν παλαισμάτων Aesch. Eum. 589). εἶἑν is the usual orthography in Paris A, and has left some traces also in the Bodleian MS e.g. Gorg. 466 C. τέχνη δικαιοσύνη. The Socratic view that Justice is an art—a view that dominates the whole of the conversation w<*> Polemarchus—is thus introduced quite incidentally. τὸ -- λέγει. Cf. Xen. Hiero II 2 (cited above on 331 E).
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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