Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias

πράττοντα καὶ λέγοντα: the two species of activity do not exclude each other, for the effect of πράττειν may be more thoroughly completed by λέγειν, and vice versa.—The acc. case is in agreement with the unexpressed indefinite agent of παρασκευαστέον. On the case of the agent with verbal adjs., see G. 281, 2; H. 991 a.

ὅπως μὴ δῷ κτἑ.: this sentence is remarkable on account of the variety of the constructions found after ὅπως,—three out of the perhaps eight varieties being found, viz. subjv., ἄν with subjv., fut. indic. We should not attempt to make any sharp distinctions here, for Plato is capable of changing the construction for the sake of variety. We may, however, say this much. ὅπως μὴ δῷ is purely final, the conjunction not differing from ἵνα. When the delinquent is brought before the judge, there is some doubt as to his escape, and ὅπως ἄν (equiv. to ἐάν πως) gives expression to this doubt. In the long sentence following the ἄν gradually fades away, and the most common relative construction with the fut. indic. closes the series. On εἰ δὲ μή after ἐάν, see on 502 b.

ἐὰν δὲ ἔλθῃ: in thus stating the opposite alternative, Socrates takes for the moment the standpoint of the orators. That it is only for the moment is seen from Crito 49 c οὔτε ἀνταδικεῖν δεῖ οὔτε κακῶς ποιεῖν οὐδένα ἀνθρώπων, οὐδ᾽ ἂν ὁτιοῦν πάσχῃ ὑπ̓ αὐτῶν.

ἀναλίσκῃ: to make the statement of the wrong complete, the way in which the money is wasted is added.