χρύσεα χαλκείων. A “familiar
quotation” from Il. VI. 235—6 (Γλαῦκος) ὃς πρὸς Τυδείδην
Διομήδεα τεύχἐ ἄμειβεν | χρύσεα
χαλκείων, ἑκατόμβοἰ ἐννεαβοίων. Later reff. to the proverb are
frequent, e.g. Plut. adv. Stoic. 1063 E; Clem. Alex.
Cohort. ad Gent. 71 C. Cp. Winter's Tale I. 2
“take eggs for money.” In χρύσεα
there is an obvious allusion to the ἀγάλματα χρυσᾶ
of 216 E.
ἥ τοι...ὄψις. For this idea of the
inverse development of vision, cp. Laws 715
D, II. Alc. 150 D. Rettig thinks that in this passage there may
lie a ref. to Phaedrus 253 D ff.,
and an indication that the views there put forward are crude and the book itself
“eine jugendliche Schrift.”
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