7. τύραννος—βιάζεται. Hippias has in view the lines of
Pindar quoted in Gorg. 484B νόμος ὁ πάντων βασιλεὺς θνατῶν τε
καὶ ἀθανάτων—ἄγε. δικαιῶν τὸ βιαιότατον ὑπερτάτᾳ χειρὶ κτλ.
11. πρυτανεῖον τῆς σοφίας. The prytaneum (like the
temple of Vesta at Rome) was the religious centre of a Greek
πόλις. It was sacred to Ἑστία, in whose honour fire was always
kept burning, and contained what was called the ‘Common
Hearth’ of the city: see Frazer in Journal of Philology, XIV,
145-72. The editors refer to Athenaeus, v. 187D τὴν Ἀθηναίων
ρόλιν, τὸ τῆς Ἑλλάδος μουσεῖον, ἣν ὁ μὲν Ρίνδαπος Ἑλλάδος ἔπεισμα
ἔφη, Θουκυδίδης δ᾽ ἐν τῷ εἰς Εὐπιρίδην ἐριγπάμματι Ἑλλάδος Ἑλλάδα,
ὁ δὲ Πύθιος ἑστίαν καὶ πρυτανεῖον τῶν Ἑλλήνων.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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