50. διατελοῦντα ἀγαθόν explains ἀγαθόν more precisely:
cf. 344Bγενόμενον δὲ διαμένειν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἕξει καὶ εἶναι ἄνδρα
ἀγαθόν. διατελεῖν without a participle seems not to be elsewhere
found in Plato, though it occurs in Thucydides and others.
52. ἐπὶ πλεῖστον: ‘diutissime, ut ἐπὶ πολύ saepe significat
diu’. καί is ‘also’ not ‘and’, and balances οὓς ἂν οἱ θεοὶ φιλῶσιν:
οἱ θεοφιλεῖς are also ἄριστοι.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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