James Adam, The Republic of Plato, book 6, section 487A

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μνήμων κτλ. The summary is complete, μεγαλοπρεπής being the opposite of ἀνελεύθερος and σμικρόλογος (486 A note).

487A - 487E But, in point of fact, urges Adimantus, actual philosophers are regarded as useless, or worse. Socrates admits the correctness of this view, and proceeds to solve the difficulty by a parable.

The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

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