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πέφυκε τε -- πέπηγεν. It is easy to carry on the negative if we read τε and not γε, which is in all MSS except A^{1}. πέφυκε πρός, like πεποίηται πρός in 598 B, is here said of the relation of Art to that which it imitates, as appears from ἀλλὰ πρὸς—εὐμίμητον εἶναι. The word πέπηγεν means ‘is framed’ or ‘constructed,’ i.q. πεποίηται (598 B): cf. VII 530 D. The infinitive is the old datival infinitive of purpose ‘constructed for pleasing’ ‘to please’: see Goodwin MT. pp. 297, 310 f. Various unnecessary and unpleasing conjectures have been proposed: the addition of οὐ before τούτῳ (Stephanus), ἡ σοφία αὐτῷ τούτῳ ἀρέσκειν πέφυκεν (Cornarius Ecl. p. 102): the transposition of πέφυκε and πέπηγεν (Valckenaer on Eur. Phoen. 923): and οὐ τοῦ τούτῳ ἀρέσκειν πεπείνηκεν (Richter in Fleck. Jb. 1867 p. 147). εἰ μέλλει -- τοῖς πολλοῖς. See on VI 493 D and cf. Reber Pl. u. die Poesie pp. 54—59. οὐκοῦν δικαίως -- ζῳγράφῳ. See on 603 B.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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