16. ὥσπερ τότε: above, 325Cἐπειδὰν θᾶττον συνιῇ τις τὰ
λεγόμενα.
17. ἐπὶ τῶν βάθρων: i.e. as they sit on the benches: cf.
above 315C παρατιθέασιν represents the works of the poets as
intellectual food: cf. Theaet. 157C παρατίθημι ἑκάστων τῶν
σοφῶν ἀπογεύσασθαι.
18. ποιητῶν ἀγαθῶν: Homer especially, and also Hesiod,
Theognis, Phocylides. Cf. Laws, VII. 810E, from which passage
it also appears that extracts were frequently made for committing to memory (ἐκμανθάνειν).
19. ἀναγκάζουσιν: μετὰ λύπης γὰρ ἡ μάθησις Arist. Pol. VIII.
1339a. 28 (quoted by Sauppe). So Niceratus in Xenophon,
Symp. III. 5 says that his father ἠνάγκασέ με πάντα τὰ Ὁμήρον
ἔπη μαθεῖν.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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