Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias

δυοῖν κτἑ.: the dual in Plato's time is fast fading out, and he uses it as an artistic feature. It disappears entirely before the close of the fourth century B.C. Notice the asyndeton.

μίαν ὀνομάσαι: like ἑνὶ ὀνόματι καλεῖν, προσαγορεύειν.—οὕτως: is idiomatically used, “thus briefly” or “thus at the moment.” See on 503 d.

οὐκ ἔχω: I am not in position, regularly takes the aor. infinitive.

6 f.

ἀντίστροφον μὲν . . . ἀντίστροφον δέ: an example of ‘anaphora.’

ἀντίστροφον: denotes a part corresponding to a similar part on the opposite side of the symmetrical whole. The function of gymnastic and nomothetic is to lay down, each in its own department, certain positive directions whereby the constitution of the subject under treatment is preserved and improved. The arts of healing and the administration of justice seek in practice to put a stop to the disregard of these directions, and to restore the normal condition. Ac cording to their object, therefore, medicine and gymnastic, as well as the making and administration of law, all belong to the same class, ἐπικοινωνοῦσι μὲν δὴ ἀλλήλαις.