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ἵνα καὶ εἰδῶ: expresses curiosity, rather than a desire for information. Socrates, as leader of the discussion, makes at once an advance, by fixing a very important distinction.
2 f. ὃ ἂν πράττωσιν, ὃ πράττουσιν: the former is generic, the latter is a circumlocution. A few lines below ὅπερ ποιοῦσιν is the special case, explanatory of τοῦτο.
πίνοντες παρὰ κτἑ.: the preposition is personal; “from the hands of.”
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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