Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias

The division of κολακεία given above was made without specifying the standard of division, and only enumerates the different varieties. Socrates now, at Gorgias' instance, reduces the whole subject to a regular system, by referring κολακεία back to a higher species, θεραπεία, on the basis of a distinction according to reality and appearance. Now, since θεραπεία has for its object the εὐεξία τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, we get two more points of view: (1) that of the object (ἀνθρώπου), as composed of body and soul; and (2) that of the treatment, as being either positive or negative.

οἷον τοιόνδε λέγω: is a formula for introducing an example or a special case in illustration of a general statement.

εὖ ἔχειν τὰ σώματα: τὰ σώματα here, as well as τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχήν below, is acc. of specification. H. 718 a.

τὸ τοιοῦτον: the article is used on account of its reference to what has just been described. This is more definitely given in the ὅτι (relative) clause which follows.

ἔχει δὲ κτἑ.: in this change of subject lies no ambiguity either to the Greek mind or to us. It was, besides, a regular way in Greek of expressing “although.” The subject is the same indefinite one which must be supplied as the object of the preceding ποιεῖ. See on 456 d.