“knock on wood.” Cf. Posnansky in Breslauer
Phil. Abhandl. v. 2, “Nemesis und
Adrasteia”: Herodotus i. 35, Aeschylus Prom.
936, Euripides Rhesus 342, Demosthenes xxv. 37KAI\ *)ADRA/STEIAN ME\N A)/NQRWPOS W)\N E)GW\
PROSKUNW=. For the moral earnestness of what follows cf. 336
E, Gorgias 458 A, and Joubert
apudArnold,
Essays in Crit. p. 29 “Ignorance . . . is
in itself in intellectual matters a crime of the first
order.” Glaucon, in what I am about to say. For,
indeed,GA\R
OU)=N, “for in fact,” but often with the
suggestion that the fact has to be faced, as e.g. in
Timaeus 47 E, where the point is often