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2. ἐπιδειξάμενος. ἐπιδείκνυσθαι and ἐπίδειξις are regularly
used of a Sophistic display: e.g. Gorg. 447A πολλὰ γὰρ καὶ καλὰ
Γοργίας ἡμῖν ὀλίγον πρότερον ἐπεδείξατο, Crat. 384B τὴν πεντηκοντάδραχμον ἐπίδειξιν. ἐπιδείκνυμι is also sometimes used in the
same way, e.g. Euthyd. 274D and below, 347B in 320Cabove
ἀλλ᾽ ἐπίδειξον is intended to suggest this meaning, which comes
out more clearly in ἐπιδείξω two lines below.
2. ἐπὶ μὲν πολὺν χρόνον goes with ἔβλεπον and ἔτι with
κεκηλημένος.
7. ὦ παῖ Ἀπολλοδώρου: with mock solemnity: so 335Dὦ
παῖ Ἱππονίκου, Rep. II. 368A ὦ παῖδες ἐκείνου τἀνδρός.
8. ὦδε in the sense of δεῦρο is noted as a Platonic idiom by the
lexicographers. The usage is found in tragedy, but no other
example is quoted from Plato.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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