40. ἄλλων ἀρχαί: ‘dominions over others’—not ἄλλων
πόλεων: cf. Gorg. 452D αἴτιον ἅμα μὲν ἐλευθερίας αὐτοῖς τοῖς
ἀνθρώποις, ἄμα δὲ τοῦ ἄλλων ἄρχειν ἐν τῇ αὑτοῦ πόλει ἑκάστῳ.
Heindorf's conjecture ἄλλαι (i.e. ‘besides’) is not necessary, in
view of Gorg. 514A (quoted by Sauppe) ἢ χρήματα πολλὰ
λαμβάνειν ἢ ἀρχήν τινων ἢ ἄλλην δύναμιν ἡντινοῦν.
43. τέλος. The philosophical sense of this word—as an end
of action—is beginning to appear in Plato: cf. Gorg. 499E ἆρα
καὶ σοὶ συνδοκεῖ οὕτω, τέλος εἶναι ἁπασῶν τῶν πράξεων τὸ ἀγαθὸν κτλ.;
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