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28 f. περὶ δὲ δύο κτἑ.: this extension to several souls was necessary in order that the investigation might be directed to political activity.
μηδέ: “without.”
τὴν αὐλητικήν: Socrates so chooses his examples that he passes from species to species in an ascend ing scale, and at the same time gradually approaches nearer to rhetoric. Playing the flute passed for the lowest species of music. Cf. the boyish words of Alcibiades in Plut. Alc. 2 αὐλείτωσαν Θηβαίων παῖδες: οὐ γὰρ ἴσασι διαλέγεσθαι. In Athens it was left mostly to such as made a business of it. Female flute-players were accustomed to appear at banquets. The instrument was probably more like a clarionet than a flute.
διώκειν, φροντίζειν: these infinitives, while in sense epexegetic to τοιαύτη εἶναι, are syntactically dependent on δοκεῖ. See on 487 c.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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