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1 Cf. Laws 645 A, Phaedr. 238 C, and for the conflict in the soul also Rep. 439 B ff.
2 The conflict proves that for practical purposes the soul has parts. Cf. 436 B ff.
3 Cf. Apology, in fine.
4 Cf. Laws 803 B and Class. Phil. ix. p. 353, n. 3, Friedländer, Platon, i. p. 143.
5 Höffding, Outlines of Psychology, p. 99, refers to Saxo's tale of the different effect which the news of the murder of Regner Lodbrog produced on his sons: he in whom the emotion was the weakest had the greatest energy for action.
6 Cf. Herod. i. 20πρὸς τὸ παρεὸν βουλεύηται.
7 Cf. Eurip.Electra 639 and fr. 175πρὸς τὸ πῖπτον, Iph. Aul. 1343 and Hippol. 718πρὸς τὰ νῦν πεπτωκότα, Epictet. ii. 5. 3. See also Stallbaum ad loc.
8 Cf. 440 B, 607 B, Herod. i. 132.
9 Cf. Demosthenes' description of how barbarians box iv. 40 (51),ἀεὶ τῆς πληγῆς ἔχεται.
10 Cf. Soph.Ajax 582θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰς πρὸς τομῶντι πήματι with Ovid, Met. i. 190: “sed immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum est.”
11 Cf. on 603 B, p. 450, note a.
12 ἔχει in the sense of “involves,” “admits of,” as frequently in Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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