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πειθοῦς δημιουργὸς ἡ ῥητορική: this definition which Socrates has gathered from Gorgias' verbiage, was not invented by Plato, but was apparently well known in Athens at the time.πειθοῦς: to be understood in a passive sense, as πειθὼ ποιεῖν below shows.
4 f. εἰς τοῦτο τελευτᾷ: instead of the regular εἰς, occasionally ἐν and πρός are used with but little difference of meaning.
τὶ: is not the object of λέγειν, but is probably to be construed with ἔχειν somewhat as follows, have you any reason to say. The object of λέγειν is contained in the following ἐπὶ πλέον . . . δύνασθαι (“its power extends further than”), with which indeed Hirschig construes τὶ.
εὖ ἴσθ᾽ ὅτι: is occasionally found construed with the inf. like an ordinary verb of perception, even in cases where there is no intervening clause as here to attract a following inf. Cf. Xen. Hell. ii. 2. 2 Αύσανδρος τοὺς φρουροὺς . . . ἀπέπεμπεν εἰς τὰς ᾿Αθήνας . . . εἰδὼς ὅτι ὅσῳ ἂν πλείους συλλελῶσιν εἰς τὸ ἄστυ, θᾶττον τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἔνδειαν ἔσεσθαι. Owing to the shift in the construction, ἐλώ is left absolute at the beginning of the sentence.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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