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10. ἐγὼ γὰρ λέγω: i.e. ‘I mean’ not ‘I say’: cf. below, l. 23
in E. Socrates puts his question in a different form inviting an
affirmative answer. After the ἡδέα following Heindorf would
insert τὰ ἡδέα, but the subject is easily supplied.
11. μὴ εἴ τι—ἄλλο. So B and the first hand in T. The clause
εἴ τι—ἄλλο defines negatively the meaning of κατὰ τοῦτο, as καθ᾽
ὃ ἡδέα ἐστίν defined it positively. μή deprecates or forbids the
possible misunderstanding: its use in the idiomatic μὴ ὅτι is
the same in kind: see above on 319D To read εἰ μή τι (with the
second hand in T) would be to beg the whole question—that
step is not reached till 353D
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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