64. εἴ με ἀνέροισθε: without the φαίην ἄν which we should
expect. Socrates apostrophises the ἄνθρωποι as if they stood
before him; the φαίην ἂν ἔγωγε of l. 66 is part of what Socrates
says to the ἄνθρωποι.
68. ἐν τούτῳ: see on 310Dabove. πᾶσαι αἱ ἀποδείξεις means
all the proofs that pleasure is good and pain evil.
69. ἀναθέσθαι suggests (as often) draughts-playing: a comparison which is worked up into a simile by Plato in Rep. VI.
487B-C.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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