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οὐχ ὥσπερ ἐγώ: a compressed expression, in which οὐ, though really without a verb, is connected with the following clause as equiv. to οὐκ εὐωχῶν, ὥσπερ κτἑ. Cf. Symp. 179 d, e (θεοὶ) ἐποίησαν τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ (Ὀρφέως) ὑπὸ γυναικῶν γενέσθαι οὐχ ὥσπερ Ἀχιλλέα . . . ἐτίμησαν καὶ εἰς μακάρων νήσους ἀπέπεμψαν. Cf. Dem. Phil. i. 34. Translate οὐχ ὥσπερ by “whereas.”
πόσον: not τί, because the uproar would be characterized by volume rather than by distinctness.
ἀναβοῆσαι: sc. as the judges of Socrates really did. Hence the repeated entreaty of Socrates, μὴ θορνβεῖτε. Cf. Apol. 30 c ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἴσως βοήσεσθε.
ἴσως κτἑ.: is, according to the sense, a decisive affirmation, though it is given unwillingly and grudgingly. οἴεσθαί γε χρή: is not very appropriate here; it is frequently employed where the speaker answers himself, e.g. Crito 53 c καὶ οὐκ οἴει ἄσχημον ἂν φαίνεσθαι τὸ τοῦ Σωκράτους πρᾶγμα; οἴεσθαί γε χρή, Prot. 325 c.
ἐν πάσῃ ἀπορίᾳ κτἑ.: cf. Hdt. ix. 98 ἐν ἀπορίῃ εἴχοντο ὅτι ποιέωσι.
οὔτε γάρ: the corresponding member to this is ἐάν τέ τίς με κτἑ.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
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