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τῶν θεατῶν: just as in English the general designation for the people who fill the theatre is ‘audience,’ whether the performance be an opera or a drama, so the Greeks used θεαταί, “the spectators,” as a general designation for the crowds who thronged the Dionysiac theatre, no matter what sort of a performance was given. So, just below (20), we find ἠνία γὰρ ᾁδων τοὺς θεατάς.
οὐχὶ ἥ τε κιθαρῳδική: this conclusion we must suppose to be permitted because at the moment Callicles can cite no example to the contrary. κιθαριστική (above, 501 e) and κιθαρῳδική, which are properly distinct (cf. κιθάρισις and κιθαρῳδία Io 533 b), are here interchanged in ac cordance with colloquial usage. To fix the meaning of κιθάρισις, the adj. ψιλή was added. Cf. Legg. 669 e.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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