16. καὶ μέγιστόν γε σοφία: Protagoras speaks as a
σοφιστής, glorifying his profession.
17. ἄλλο, τὸ δὲ ἄλλο: equivalent to τὸ μὲν ἄλλο, τὸ δὲ ἄλλο.
τὸ δέ, τὰ δέ, etc., without preceding τὸ μέν, τὰ μέν, etc., is a
frequent idiom. Crat. 399A πολλάκις ἐπεμβάλλομεν γράμματα, τὰ
δ᾽ ἐξαιροῦμεν, Soph. O.T. 1229 οἶμαι γὰρ οὔτ᾽ ἂν Ἴστρον οὔτε
Φᾶσιν ἂν νίψαι καθαπμῷ τήνδε τὴν στέγην ὅσα κεύθει, τὰ δ᾽ αὐτίκ᾽
εἰς τὸ φῶς φανεῖ κακά.
18. ὥσπερ τὰ τοῦ προσώπου: we have placed the mark of
interrogation before ὥσπερ: see on ἄλλο γε in 311E The sentence
ὥσπερ τὰ τοῦ προσώπου οὐκ ἔστιν ὀφθαλμὸς οἷον τὰ ὦτα thus corresponds exactly to ἆρ᾽ οὖν οὕτω καὶ τὰ τῆς ἀρετῆς μόρια οὐκ ἔστιν τὸ
ἕτερον οἷον τὸ ἕτερον. For τὰ τοῦ προσώπου followed by its parts
in the same case cf. below 349Aἐκεῖνα—τὰ μέν—τὰ δέ and
Theaet. 151A οἷς ὅταν πάλιν ἔλθωσι—ἐνίοις μὲν—ἀποκωλύει
συνεῖναι, ἐνίοις δὲ ἐᾷ. For the asyndeton regular in explanatory
and ampliative clauses see note on Apol. 22A.
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