19. ὑποκηρυξάμενος ‘having had yourself heralded as a
sophist’: compare Aeschin. in Ctes. 41 ἄλλοι δέ τινες ὑποκηρυξάμενοι τοὺς αὑτῶν οἰκέτας ἀφίεσαν ἀπελευθέρους. The force of ὑπο-
is probably the same as in ὑπεῖπον: see note on 343E Notice the
effect of the double σεαυτόν (both of them after a natural pause):
σεαυτὸν ὑποκηρυξάμενος—σεαυτὸν ἀπέφηνας: the -αυτόν is brought
out so strongly as to suggest that Protagoras is the only true
Αὐτός or Master.
22. μισθὸν—ἄρνυσθαι: 328B where however it is not said
that Protagoras was the first to take a fee. The Homeric word
ἄρνυσθαι is occasionally used by prose writers in the phrase
μισθὸν ἄρνυσθαι: whence μισθαρνεῖν.
25. ἐκεῖνα—τὰ μὲν—τὰ δέ: see above on 330A
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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