τίνα...διάνοιαν. A.'s feelings were a
blend of chagrin and veneration: cp. the perplexity described in 216 C; Theogn. 1091 ff. ἀργαλέως
μοι θυμὸς ἔχει περὶ σῆς φιλότητος: | οὔτε γὰρ ἐχθαίρειν οὔτε φιλεῖν δύναμαι, κτλ.
ἠτιμάσθαι. Cp. Theogn. 1313 ἐμὴν δὲ μεθῆκας ἀτίμητον φιλότητα.
ἀγάμενον. This is an echo, both of
Phaedrus's language in 179 C, 180 A, and of ἀγαστός
applied to Eros (197 D). Observe the assonance ἡγούμενον...
ἀγάμενον. Cp. Xen. Symp. VIII. 8.
τὴν τούτου φύσιν
κτλ. Hommel renders “des Mannes ganzem
Wesen besonders seiner Besonnenheit und Charakterfestigkeit” etc.; Rettig
explains φύσις as “die geistige Naturanlage des S., seine theoretische und spekulative Begabung,
ingenium, σοφία (vgl. Theaet. 144 A).” The former seems the more natural
interpretation; φύσις may be intended also as an echo
of Aristophanes' use of the word (189 D etc.).
φρόνησιν...καρτερίαν
. “φρόνησις verbunden mit καρτερία ist doch nichts Anderes als die Auflösung
des Begriffs der σωφροσύνη in seine beiden
Bestandtheile. Vgl. Pol. IV. 430 E, Phädr. 237
E, Krat. 411 E” (Rettig).
οὔθ̓...εἶχον. Of moral impossibility,
as in 190 C, Phaedrus 241 A.
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