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διδάξοι: the fut. opt. is only found in indir. disc. as a representative of the fut. indicative. It is postHomeric, the first example occurring in Pindar.
αὐτόν: repeats with emphasis the subject Γοργίαν, which is already expressed. Cf. Xen. Cyr. i. 3. 15 πειράσομαι τῷ πάππῳ ἀγαθῶν ἱππέων κράτιστος ὢν ἱππεὺς συμμαχεῖν αὐτῷ. The clause with ὅτι is causal, and is explanatory of διὰ τὸ ἔθος τῶν ἀνθρώπων, which is to be connected with φάναι, not with διδάξειν.
ἀγαπᾶν: cf. 461 c ὃ δὴ ἀγαπᾷς.
ὥς γέ μοι δοκεῖν: as it seemed to me. The phrase is found sometimes with ὡς as here and Hdt. ii. 124; sometimes without, as Meno 81 a; ἔμοιγε δοκεῖν Soph. El. 410.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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