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ἄλλοθι: on these travels, see Introd. § 5. The vagueness of the adverb stamps the whole statement as somewhat boastful.
τὸ δὲ μῆκος τῶν λόγων: Socrates does not mean that the answers should be restricted to a certain length; but he wishes to exclude those answers which, instead of keeping strictly to the question under discussion, branch off and lose themselves in different trains of thought. By using καί before Πῶλος, Socrates gives us to understand that he fears something similar from Gorgias.
εἰσαῦθις ἀποθέσθαι: put off till another time.ὅπερ ὑπισχνεῖ: with reference to 447 e.
εἰσὶν κτἑ.: though Gorgias speaks like a master, with the air of authority, he would still like to leave a way of escape open for himself, —which unfortunately his boastful ἐπάγγελμα has rendered impossible, although he had not yet distinctly promised to speak with brevity.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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