46. ἔμοιγ᾽ ἐξαρκεῖ κτλ. See Appendix I, pp. 214 ff. for the
arrangement of this part of the poem.
48. γ᾽ ὀνησίπολιν. The MSS. read γ᾽ ὀνήσει πόλιν, which
G. Hermann emended to τ᾽ ὀνησίπολιν, Bergk to ὀνασίπολιν.
49. οὐ μήν: so the MSS., and so, most probably, Plato; but
Simonides can hardly have written this, which will not scan;
see Appendix I, p. 217.
51. οὐ γάρ εἰμι φιλόμωμος probably belongs to an earlier
part of the poem (before ἔμοιγ᾽ ἐξαρκεῖ: cf. οὐ διὰ ταῦτά σε
ψέγω, ὅτι εἰμὶ φιλόψογος in line 45): see Appendix I, p. 217.
53. γενέθλα is Stephanus' correction for γένεθλα of the MSS.,
a mistake due to supposing that ἀπείρων (not from ἄπειρος) went
with ἠλιθίων: it belongs to γενέθλα.
56. πάντα τοι καλά—μέμικται sums up the whole moral
teaching of the poem.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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