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ἕνα -- πολλῶν. Cf. 423 D note and [Epin.] 992 B ἐκ πολλῶν ἕνα γεγονότα. The phrase εἷς ἐκ πολλῶν is a sort of Platonic motto or text (like the φωναί of post-Aristotelian ethics). οὕτω δὴ -- ἤδη: emphatic, as Hirzel points out (Hermes VIII p. 393): for the just man will not take part in practical affairs until he has ordered his own soul aright. Cf. Alc. I 113 B ff., Ap. 36 C, and Xen. Mem. III 7. 9, IV 3. 1. ἢ καί. Stallbaum and others add περί (with Ξ) before πολιτικόν, but τι πράττῃ περὶ πολιτικόν τι is very unpleasing. πολιτικόν depends directly on πράττῃ and is equivalent to περὶ πόλιν. The slight variety of expression is easy and elegant after ἢ καί ‘aut etiam.’ ἐπιστήμην -- δόξαν. This is, as Krohn points out (Pl. St. p. 68), the first precise and explicit separation of ἐπιστήμη and δόξα in the Republic. Each of them, however, is still concerned with conduct, and not, as in the end of V, with the theory of knowledge.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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