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LXVIII. νόμος: usage, custom. Cf. τὰ νομιζόμενα.
μηχανοποιόν: Socrates has in mind the constructors of great machines which were used in the defence of beleaguered cities, and of which the second Punic war offers a celebrated example. The military engineer saves at the same time the lives of many men,—the orator only one life at a time.μὴ (οὐχ) ὅτι: see on 450 e.
ἐλάττω δύναται σῴζειν: this use of the neut. acc. is extended from the cognate. Cf. Apol. 30 c ἐμὲ μείζω βλάψετε. On the pl., cf. the adverbial use of the neut. pl. by Thucydides. ‘A chance is represented as the sum of so many contingencies; a quantity as the sum of so many smaller units.’ Rid. § 43.
μή σοι δοκεῖ: the answer assumed in the following καίτοι would run as above: μὰ Δἴ οὐκ ἔμοιγε. For the interrogative μή, see G. 282, 2.— κατὰ ... εἶναι: to be comparable to, i.e. worthy to be put upon the same plane with. Cf. Apol. 17 b ὁμολογοίην ἂν ἔγωγε οὐ κατὰ τούτους εἶναι ῥήτωρ.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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