Fifth Interlude
εἰ μὲν βούλει...εἰ δέ. Cp.
Euthyd. 285 C (with Gifford's
n.); Goodwin
G. M. T. § 478.
ὅ τι...χαίρεις ὀνομάζων. Cp.
Prot. 358 A;
Phaedrus 273 C; Eur. fr. 967 D.
σοὶ... Ζεὺς εἴτ᾽ Ἀίδης |
ὀνομαζόμενος στέργεις.
τοὺς μὲν ἐπαινεῖν. Observe that Socr.
is not so enthusiastically applauded as Agathon (
πάντας
ἀναθορυβῆσαι,
198 A): Socrates appealed
rather
τῷ ἔχοντι ὦτα ἀκούειν.
λέγων...περὶ τοῦ λόγου. See
205 D ff.
καὶ λέγεται...λόγος
κτλ.
τὴν αὔλειον θύραν. For this
“street-door,” which generally opened inwards and gave admittance
to a narrow passage (
θυρωρεῖον), see Smith
D.
A. I. 661
b.
κρουομένην. As the Porter in
Macbeth would say, “there was old knocking at the
door.” For
κρούειν cp.
Prot. 310 A, 314 D; but the usual Attic
word is
κόπτειν (Moeris
κόπτει
τὴν θύραν ἔξωθεν...Ἀττικῶς, κροτεῖ δὲ Ἑλληνικῶς: Schol. ad Ar.
Nub. 132
ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἔξωθεν κρουόντων
κόπτειν λέγουσιν, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἔσωθεν ψοφεῖν), or
πατάσσειν Ar.
Ran. 38. Cp. Smith
D.
A. I. 990
b.
ὡς κωμαστῶν. “Ut comissatorum,
h. e. quasi comissatores eum (sc. strepitum) excitarent” (Stallb.). Stallb.
rightly removed the comma placed after
παρασχεῖν in
Bekker's text.
κωμασταί, “flown with
insolence and wine,” would naturally be in a noisy mood. For Alcib. as a
reveller, see
Plut. Alcib. 193D.
αὐλητρίδος φωνὴν. Not
“tibicinae vocem,” as Wolf, but rather “sonum tibiae,
quam illa inflavit,” as Stallb. For
φωνή
thus (poetically) applied to instrumental music, cp.
Rep. 397 A
πάντων ὀργάνων φωνάς: similarly Xen.
Symp. VI. 3
ὅταν ὁ αὐλὸς
φθέγγηται. For the
αὐλητρίς as a regular
accessory of
κῶμοι, cp.
176
E,
Theaet. 173 D: similar
are the
ἑταῖραι of
Rep. 373 A, 573 D: cp. Catullus's “cenam non sine
candida puella.”
