60. καὶ οὐ ζητῶ κτλ. Socrates recapitulates part of the
poem by way of interpreting the final text: see note on τὸ δ᾽
ἐστὶν γενέσθαι κτλ. in 344Eabove and Appendix I, p. 214.
62. τούτου γ᾽ ἕνεκα: ‘si hoc spectetur s. requiratur, τὸ πανάμωμον εἶναι’ (Heindorf): cf. Phaed. 85B ἀλλὰ τούτου γ᾽ ἕνεκα
λέγειν τε χρὴ καὶ ἐρωτᾶν ὅ τι ἂν βούλησθε. The sense is: if I must
wait for perfection before beginning to praise, I shall never
praise anyone.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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