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προτέρας ἁμαρτίας=‘former sin’ means the sins committed in a previous existence. Hence the imperfect ὑπῆρχεν (‘was to him from the first,’ i.e. from the moment of his birth). οὐ γὰρ δὴ ὑπό γε θεῶν κτλ. Cf. (with Morgenstern de Plat. rep. comment. p. 141) Ap. 41 C, D and, for a proof of the divine Providence, Laws 899 D ff. εἰς ὅσον δυνατὸν -- θεῷ . ὁμοίωσις θεῷ κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν is the ethical end for man: see Theaet. 176 B—177 A, and cf. II 383 C, VI 500 C, D, 501 B, C, and Laws 716 B—D together with the μελέτη θανάτου of the Phaedo and the old Pythagorean maxims ἕπου θεῷ, ἀκολουθεῖν τῷ θεῷ. Cf. also Rohde Psyche^{2} pp. 163, 285— 287.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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