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ἅτε καὶ θέρους ὄντος. The action is probably laid in Hecatombaeon (roughly our July): see Introd. § 3. Bekker (following the punctuation of A) takes τότε with ὄντος, but πρότερον δὲ οὔπω shews that it belongs to καὶ εἶδον. τότε καὶ is simply ‘then too’; I cannot see anything “mock-heroic” in the expression, as J. and C. do. εἰ οὖν λέγοιμι κτλ. εἰ δ̓ οὖν is read by Ast: “sed sufficit externum, ut ita dicam. vinculum οὖν (Schneider).” δημηγορεῖν and εἰπεῖν ὅσα βούλομαι are the opposites of διαλέγεσθαι and βραχυλογία (Prot. 336 B, 335 A).
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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