τὸ ἐπὶ...σώματι. Cp. 186 A.
τὸ ἐπ᾽ εἴδει καλόν. This has been
interpreted in three ways: (1) “das in der Idee Schöne”
(Schleierm.), “das Schöne der Gesammtgattung”
(Schulthess); so too Zeller and F. Horn; (2) “quod in specie (opp. to
‘summo genere’) pulchrum est” (Stallb., after
Wyttenbach), so too Hommel; (3) “das in der Gestalt
Schöne” (Ruge), “pulcritudo quae in forma est atque
sensibus percipitur” (Rückert). The last of these is undoubtedly
right, and has the support also of Vermehren, Rettig and Hug; for εἶδος of physical “form” or
“outward appearance,” cp. 196 A,
215 B.
μὴ οὐχ...ἡγεῖσθαι. See Goodwin
G. M. T. § 817.
ἐννοήσαντα καταστῆναι. Sc.
αὐτὸν δεῖ, resuming the oblique construction.
τὸ σφόδρα τοῦτο. “Idem est
quod τοῦτο τὸ σφόδρα ἐρᾶν vel τὸν σφοδρὸν τοῦτον ἔρωτα” (Stallb.). We have
had a description of this σφοδρότης already, in 183 A ff.
ὥστε καὶ ἐὰν
κτλ. The uncontracted form καὶ
ἐάν is very rare in Plato, see Schanz nov. comm.
p. 95. For ἄνθος, cp. 183
E.
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