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προέσθαι τὴν εὐεργεσίαν: every piece of instruction given the scholar by the teacher is looked upon as a benefit, and the pay is simply a compensation for benefit received. To προέσθαι, which of itself denotes a freewill gift, is added ἄνευ μισθοῦ in order to make more plain the contrast with the practice of the sophists, which ran so counter to the customary ideas of the Greeks (cf. Apol. 19 e f., 31 b, 33 a). The practice of Protagoras, as it is told us in Prot. 328 b, c, is noteworthy in this connexion.
ὅτι μάλιστα: to be connected with the partic. clause ἅμα μεταδιδούς, simul atque tradit.ἅμα: on the adv. with the partic., see H. 976; GMT. 858.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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