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τοῦτο συμβαίνει ἢ ἄλλο τι: according to the position of ἄλλο τι before or after the ἤ is the latter to be translated “than” or “or.”
ἐνταῦθά γε: Gorgias notices the danger of such a concession, but still thinks he can limit the force of the argument to the single case. Perceiving this, Socrates immediately extends his statement to make it apply καὶ περὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἁπάσας τέχνας.
45 f. πράγματα . . . μηχανὴ πειθοῦς: Socrates never lets slip an occasion to emphasize the essential opposition of the aim of rhetoric to the truth of facts, an opposition admitted, indeed, by the Sophists themselves. Cf. the statement of Tisias in Phaedr. 272 d ὅτι οὐδὲν ἀληθείας μετέχειν δέοι . . . τὸν μέλλοντα ἱκανῶς ῥητορικὸν εἶναι.
πολλὴ ῥᾳστώνη: Gor
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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