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3. Κριτίας the foremost of the Thirty so-called tyrants was
related to Plato on the mother's side, Perictione Plato's mother
being granddaughter of the elder Critias, who was father of
Callaeschrus. He is one of the dramatis personae in the Charmides and Timaeus, and the dialogue Critias is named after him.
A scholiast on the Timaeus, 20A (quoted by Stallbaum)
describes him as γενναίας καὶ ἁδρᾶς φύσεως, ἥπτετο δὲ καὶ
φιλοσόφων συνουσιῶν, καὶ ἐκαλεῖτο ἰδιώτης μὲν ἐν φιλοσόφοις,
φιλόσοφος δὲ ἐν ἰδιώταις. For the fragments of his poems see
Bergk's Poetae Lyrici Graeci4, II, 279 ff.
4. ἔτι σμίκρ᾽ ἄττα—διαθεασάμενοι. σμίκρ᾽ ἄττα is the
plural of σμικρόν τι, and as ἔτι σμικρόν τι διατρίψαντες would
mean ‘after a little further delay’, so ἔτι σμίκρ᾽ ἄττα διατρίψαντες means ‘after some little further delays’. The reference in
ἔτι is to 314C ταῦτα in καὶ ταῦτα refers to the causes of the delays,
which were, as usual, some topics of discourse: its antecedent
is involved in διατρίψαντες.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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