20. πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν. The plural is idiomatic: cf. Symp.
217D διελεγόμην ἀεὶ πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν; Ar. Clouds, 2 ὦ Ζεῦ
βασιλεῦ τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον. So μέσαι νύκτες for ‘midnight’. In quibus loquendi formulis remarks Heindorf ‘νύκτες
horas nocturnas denotant’.
21. ὁ ὕπνος ἀνῆκεν is modelled on Homer (e.g. Il. II. 71 ἐμὲ
δὲ γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἀνῆκεν), but Plato gives a different turn to
ἀνῆκεν by adding ἐκ τοῦ κόπου, where ἐκ is ‘from’, not ‘after’
(as Stallbaum thinks). Note presently that οὕτω to introduce the
apodosis after participles is especially common in Plato: cf.
below, 314C 326D
23. ἀνδρείαν. ἀνδρεῖος occurs in much the same sense in
Meno, 81D οὐδὲν κωλύει—τἄλλα πάντα αὐτὸν ἀνευρεῖν, ἐάν τις
ἀνδρεῖος ᾗ καὶ μὴ ἀποκάμνῃ ζητῶν. σοί is emphatic and should
therefore be accented, like σέ in l. 28.
24. ἀδικεῖ. ἀδικεῖν is often used of a past injury because the
injury is regarded as continuing till atonement is made: see on
Crito, 50C.
27. ἂν αὐτῷ διδῷς ἀργύριον καὶ πείθῃς ἐκεῖνον. For the
variation of pronouns cf. Euthyphr. 14D ἀλλά μοι λέξον τίς αὕτη
ἡ ὑρηπεσία ἐστί τοῖς θεοῖς; αἰτεῖν τε φῂς αὐτοὺς καὶ διδόναι
ἐκείνοις; above, 309B and below, 318C The change is most
frequent where the second pronoun is different in case from the
first: cf. Classen on Thuc. I. 132. 5. Cobet ejects the words καὶ
πείθῃς ἐκεῖνον, but they are supported by the parallel expression of
311Dἂν μὲν ἐξικνῆται τὰ ἡμέτερα χρήματα καὶ τούτοις πείθωμεν
αὐτόν.
28. ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοί: i.e. καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι θεοί. The exclamation is
common: see Blaydes on Ar. Plutus, I.
29. ἐν τούτῳ εἴη. Cf. 354Eand 356Dεἰ οὖν ἐν τούτῳ ἡμῖν ἦν
τὸ εὖ πράττειν.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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