Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias

ἄγασθαι τῶν γιγνομένων: cf. 482 d οὐκ ἄγαμαι Πῶλον. The acc. is rare and states simply the obj.; the gen. gives the cause, and may be a person or a thing. With the person is generally found either a participial or an adverbial clause. See H. 784.

γιγνομένων: after ἐγγίγνεσθαι, as Crito 44 d ἐργάζεσθαι after ἐξεργάζεσθαι, is quite in accordance with the customary usage.

χαλεπὸν γάρ: in our admiration for the ‘self-made’ man we forget that he has had every incentive to rise, while we withhold our sympathy from fallen greatness, which has had every temptation to fall.

ὀλίγοι: as also οἱ σφόδρα πονηροί. The most stand in the mean, according to Phaedo 90 a, b οἴει τι σπανιώτερον εἶναι ἢ σφόδρα μέγαν ἢ σφόδρα σμικρὸν ἐξευρεῖν ἄνθρωπον ἢ κύνα ἢ ἄλλο ὁτιοῦν; ἢ αὖ αἰσχρὸν ἢ καλὸν κτἑ.;