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τῇ δὲ ἀληθείᾳ κτἑ.: cf. 464 b ff.
καὶ ᾤμην: the position of καί here, which would properly be connected with μόνοις, is due to the desire to emphasize this latter word by putting it at the head of the sentence.
τούτῳ τῷ πράγματι: that which receives their training, whether it be a whole commonwealth or an individual. The abstract neut. generalizes, as in Prot. 312 c, where of the sophists themselves it is said: καίτοι εἰ τοῦτ̓ (i.e. what a sophist is) ἀγνοεῖς οὐδὲ ὅτῳ παραδίδως τὴν ψυχὴν οἶσθα, οὔτ᾽ εἰ ἀγαθῷ οὐτ̓ εἰ κακῷ πράγματι.
ἢ τῷ αὐτῷ λόγῳ κτἑ.: without, at the same time. Cf. Phaedr. 245 d τοῦτο δὲ οὔτ᾽ ἀπόλλυσθαι οὔτε γίγνεσθαι δυνατόν, ἢ πάντα τε οὐρανὸν πᾶσάν τε γένεσιν συμπεσοῦσαν στῆναι. Cron supplies from οὐκ ἐγχωρεῖν the words ἀνάγκην εἶναι, but it is very doubtful whether the Greeks felt the ellipsis. Cf. 471 d.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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