29. τὸ ἐπαχθὲς αὐτῆς. ἐπαχθές like φορτικόν means what
hearers will resent (think a burden or ἄχθος) as in bad taste
because presumptuous: cf. Demosth. de Pace, 4 τὸ λέγειν περὶ
ὧν αὐτὸς εἶρέ τις καὶ ρεπὶ αὑτοῦ—οὕτως ἡγοῦμαι φοπτικὸν καὶ
ἐπαχθὲς ὥστε κτλ.
30. τοὺς μὲν ποίησιν. σοφός and its derivatives are often
used especially in early writers in connection with poetry, e.g
Theognis, 19-20 Κύρνε σοφιζομένῳ μὲν ἐμοὶ σφρηγὶς ἐπικείσθω
τοῖσδ᾽ ἔπεσιν, Pindar, Isthm. 4. 29-30 μελέταν δὲ σοφισταῖς Διὸς
ἕκατι πρόσβαλον σεβιζόμενοι.
32. τοὺς ἀμφί τε Ὀρφέα καὶ Μουσαῖον = ‘Orpheus and
Musaeus and their schools’. The Editors quote Ar. Frogs,
1032 ff. Ὀρφεὺς μὲν γὰρ τελετάς θ᾽ ἡμῖν κατέδειξε φόνων τ᾽
ἀρέχεσθαι, Μουσαῖος δ᾽ ἐξακέσεις τε νόσων καὶ χπησμούς, Ἡσίοδος δὲ
γῆς ἐργασίας, καρπῶν ὥρας, ἀρότους: ὁ δὲ θεῖος Ὅμηρος ἀπὸ τοῦ
τιμὴν καὶ κλέος ἔσχεν πλὴν τοῦδ᾽ ὅτι χρήστ᾽ ἐδίδαξε, τάξεις, ἀρετάς,
ὁπλίσεις ἀνδρῶν; For the misplacement of τε cf. Crito, 43B ὲν
τοσαύτῃ τε ἀγρυπνίᾳ καὶ λύπῃ εἶναι.
34. Ἴκκος—Ἡρόδικος. Iccus is mentioned in Laws, VIII.
839E ff. as a model of temperance. According to Pausanias, he
won in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games and afterwards
set up as a trainer (γυμναστής). Herodicus of Selymbria in
Thrace combined the professions of the γυμναστής and ἰατρός
(μίξας γυμναστικὴν ἰατρικῇ). He is described in Rep. III. 406A as
the inventor of the παιδαγωγικὴ τῶν νοσημάτων ἰατρική—by
means of which he tortured first himself (by prolonging his own
dying) and afterwards others: δυσθανατῶν—ὑπὸ σοφίας εἰς γῆρας
ἀφίκετο (ibid. B).
ὁ νῦν ἔτι ὤν—σοφιστής. Heindorf reads ἧττον in place of
ἥττων, but νῦν ἔτι ὤν is ‘still living’ and οὐδενὸς ἥττων σοφιστής
is a descriptive qualification.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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