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παισί. See cr. n. The corruption—an easy one in minuscule MSS—recurs in VI 494 B. See Introd. § 5 and Bast Comm. Pal. p. 705. The object of this part of the argument is to shew that our city is σώφρων not only as being κρείττων αὑτῆς but as being κρείττων ἡδονῶν τε καὶ ἐπιθυμιῶν—a kindred, but not quite identical, notion: cf. 431 D. In adding γυναιξί Plato speaks from the ordinary Greek standpoint; in permitting some women to be guardians, he tacitly allows that in some cases their desires (unlike those of οἰκέται etc.) are μετὰ νοῦ. Cf. Laws 780 E ff. λεγομένων is emphatic. No one is free who is a slave to his desires. Cf. 1 336 A note τὰς δέ γε κτλ. I have returned to the MS reading. The accusative with τυγχάνω and its congeners is—except with neuter pronouns (Jebb on Soph. O. T. 1298）—almost unexampled (ἐπιτόσσαις with accusative in Pind. Pyth. 10. 33), and Herwerden reads the dative, an easy correction; but it is perhaps safer to take the accusative as a sort of anacoluthon “occasioned by the parallel of the previous sentence” τάς γε πολλὰς—εὕροι (J. and C.). Baiter brackets the verb ἐπιτεύξει.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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