ἰδὼν αὖ τις. “ἄν cum participio cohaeret hoc sensu, ἐάν τις ἴδῃ... si quis forte
viderit” (Rückert); Stallb., too, defends ἄν, citing Rep.
589 E, Phaedo 61 C, Euthyd. 287 D; the objection of
Rückert and Rettig, that αὖ ought to stand
after διοιγομένους rather than after ἰδών, is not fatal.
μόνους...τῶν λόγων. For the contrast
implied, cp. Homer's οἶος πέπνυται, ταὶ δὲ σκιαὶ
ἀΐσσουσιν (Meno 100 A).
A similar ascription of life to λόγοι is to be found
in Phaedrus 276 A.
θειοτάτους
κτλ. Cp. 216
D—E. The whole of this account of Socrates' λόγοι is virtually an encomium of his σοφία.
τείνοντας...ἐπὶ πᾶν. Cp. 188 B
ἐπὶ πᾶν ὁ θεὸς τείνει: Rep. 581 B. For echoes of phrases in the previous speeches
here, and throughout Alcib.'s speech, see Introd. § vi (3).
ἃ μέμφομαι
κτλ. “Verba ita connectenda sunt: καὶ συμμίξας αὖ ἃ μέμφομαι εἶπον ὑμῖν ἅ με
ὕβρισε” (Stallb.). Stephens erroneously put a comma, Wolf a full
stop, after μέμφομαι. Rückert, agreeing with
Stallb., put a comma after συμμίξας, and Hommel added
another after αὖ. Jowett's
transl.,—“I have added my blame of him for his ill-treatment of
me”—seems to imply a different view of the construction. The
points alluded to are those mentioned in 217 B ff.,
219 C.
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