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οὗ: depends upon μᾶλλον and is explained in ἢ τοῦτο. Cf. Crito 44 c τίς ἂν αἰσχίων εἴη ταύτης δόξα ἢ δοκεῖν χρήματα περὶ πλείονος ποιεῖσθαι ἢ φίλους. See Kr. 47, 27, 8.σπουδάσειε: in reference to an investigation which one should seriously prosecute.
12 f. σμικρὸν νοῦν ἔχων: indicates that the question is important for every one, not merely for statesmen and philosophers.
τοῦ ἀνδρὸς δή: ironically added as a matter already decided, because Callicles had so defined the sphere of the “real man.”
ἐπὶ τόνδε: anacoluthic, as if ἐπὶ πότερον χρὴ βίον παρακαλεῖν had preceded, whereas with πότερον we must supply τοῦτον, i.e. τὸν τρόπον ζῆν χρή.
διαφέρων: on the pred. use of the partic., see GMT. 830.
ὡς ἄρτι ἐπεχείρησα: we think at first of the question raised in 491 d ff. as to the nature of self-control, which leads naturally to a distinction between what is good and what is pleasant, but we are also reminded of the earlier conversation with Polus and Gorgias (464 b) in which a distinction was drawn between true arts and various tricks of dexterity, which are designed only to cajole.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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