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τόδε: is probably an acc. with λέγεις understood. Cf. Phaedo 65 d τί δὲ δὴ τὰ τοιάδε and Xen. Mem. iii. I. 10 τί δὲ τοὺς κινδυνεύειν μέλλοντας. On the other hand, Phil. 27 e τί δὲ ὁ σὸς βίος and Soph. Aj. 101 “τί γὰρ δὴ παῖς ὁ τοῦ Λαερτίου” make for the nom. The context must be the guide.
εἰς οὐδὲν ἀποβλέπων: with regard unto nothing, that is, without searching for some characteristic common to all these things, in accordance with which you would be justified in calling them καλά. The word ἀποβλέπω is used also when reference is made to an idea or principle, which conditions a person's action or the manner of appearance of any phenomenon.
κατά: is used of the scale according to which a thing is to be measured.
πρὸς τοῦτο: points emphatically back to πρὸς ὃ κτἑ., in a way more remarkable here than in 469 c. The relative clause itself is an extension of κατὰ τὴν χρείαν, laying especial stress on the relativity of the καλόν.
ἐν τῷ θεωρεῖσθαι: notice the use of the passive to denote the point of view from which σῶμα is καλόν.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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