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32. ἐνέβαλεν ῥῆμα—συνεστραμμένον. The aorist is like
‘behold! he has thrown in’: it expresses rapidity by representing
the action as no sooner begun than over. The idiom is very
frequent in Plato: Turner refers to Stallbaum on Rep. III.
406D ἐὰν δέ τις αὐτῷ μικρὰν δίαιταν προστάττῃ—ταχὺ εἶπεν ὅτι οὐ
σχολὴ κάμνειν. With συνεστ ραμμένον cf. Ar. Rhet. II. 24. 1401a. 5
συνεστ ραμμένως—εἰπεῖν; the metaphor is apparently from an
animal gathering itself for a spring (cf. Ar. Hist. Anim. IX. 48.
631a. 27 συστρέψαντες ἑαυτοὺς φέρονται ὥσπερ τόξευμα and Plato,
Rep. I. 336B συστρέψας ἑαυτὸν ὥσπερ θηρίον ἧκεν ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς).
33. ὥσπερ δεινὸς ἀκοντιστής. With the metaphor compare
Theaet. 165D καὶ ἄλλα μυρία ἃ ἐλλοχῶν ἂν πελταστικὸς ἀνὴρ
μισθοφόπος ἐν λόγοις ἐπόμενος—ἐμβαλὼν ἂν εἰς τὸ ἀκούειν—ἤλεγχεν
ἂν ἐπέχων καὶ οὐκ ἀνιεὶς κτλ., ibid. 180A ἀλλ᾽ ἄν τινά τι ἔρῃ, ὥσπερ
ἐκ φαρέτρας ῥηματίσκια αἰνιγματώδη ἀνασπῶντες ἀποτοξεύουσιν.
34. παιδὸς μηδὲν βελτίω. The phrase is almost proverbial:
see on Crito, 49B παίδων οὐδὲν διαφέροντες.
38. φθέγγεσθαι, here of an impressive (almost mystic)
utterance, as often in Greek, e.g. Ar. Clouds, 315 αὗται αἱ
φθεγξάμεναι τοῦτο τὸ σεμνόν.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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