36. ἀναγκαίαις: Heusde's correction for ἀνάγκαις of MSS.
ἐπικρύπτεσθαι—ἀναγκάζεσθαι. Plato is probably thinking of Socrates after his trial as he depicts him in the Crito.
ἀναγκάζεσθαι ‘are constrained’ is of course passive.
39. παραμυθεῖσθαι, like mulcere, as often. Sauppe quotes
Hor. Epod. XIII. 18 ‘deformis aegrimoniae dulcibus alloquiis’.
41. ἡγήσατο—ἀναγκαζόμενος: ‘believed—that he had
praised, etc.’ Plato deals a sly thrust at Simonides' notorious
avarice, as Pindar (quoted by Sauppe) does in Isthm. 11. 6 ἁ
Μοῖσα γὰρ οὐ φιλοκερδής πω τότ᾽ ἦν οὐδ᾽ ἐργάτις. The words ἀλλ᾽
ἀναγκαζόμενος contain the sting; for the life of the χρηματιστής
is βίαιος (Ar. Eth. Nic. 1. 3. 1096a. 5).
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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