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ἄλλο τι: see on 467 d. Polus had several times given as an authority the opinion of the masses, and had even, in 474 b, by the words οὔτ᾽ ἄλλος οὐδείς spoken in their name. He thus appears, like Protagoras in Prot. 353 a, as their representative. ὡμολογεῖτο properly applies to ὑπὸ σοῦ, and the present is to be supplied to ὑπὸ τῶν πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων.
δέξαιο ἄν: pays back for Polus' question in 474 b. The construction is varied by the substitution of ἀντὶ with gen. instead of ἤ after μᾶλλον.
ἀντὶ τοῦ ἧττον: sc. κακοῦ καὶ αἰσχροῦ.
γενναίως: bravely; scorning the pain. The comparison is the same as in 480 c παρέχειν . . . ὥσπερ τέμνειν καὶ κάειν ἰατρῷ, and seems to be a Socratic one. Cf. Xen. Mem. i. 2. 54. For the construction, see on 456 b.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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