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ἀνδρείας -- εὐχερείας: ‘courage and complaisance.’ εὐχέρεια is not ‘dexterity (L. and S., with the English translators), a meaning which the word never bears in Plato; but ‘facilitas,’ ‘humanitas,’ kind, obliging behaviour. “Herzhaftigkeit und Gutmüthigkeit,” Schneider, rightly. τετράπηχυς: ‘a six-footer.’ Dümmler (l.c.) questions this word, without saying why. It is more appropriate than a word expressing greater height; especially if any personal allusion is intended. Isocrates was not an intellectual giant, nor would even his applauding contemporaries (I think) have called him so.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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