1 The order of the words dramatically expressses Thrasymachus's excitement and the sweeping success of the tyrant.
2 The European estimate of Louis Napoleon before 1870 is a good illustration. Cf. Theopompus on Philip, Polybius viii. 11. Euripides'Bellerophon(fr. 288) uses the happiness of the tyrant as an argument against the moral government of the world.
3 Aristotle Eth. Nic. 1130 b 15 uses the expression in a different sense.
4 The main issue of the Republic. Cf. 360 D, 358 E and Gorgias 469 B.
5 Cf. Theophrastus, Char. xv. 19 (Jebb), Tucker, Life in Ancient Athens, p. 134. For the metaphor cf. 536 B, Lysis 204 D, Aristophanes Wasps 483. “Sudden,” lit. “all at once.”
6 Cf. Euripides Alcestis 680οὐ βαλὼν οὕτως ἄπει.
7 Socrates reminds us that a serious moral issue is involved in all this word-play. So 352 D, Gorgias 492 C, 500 C, Laches 185 A. Cf. 377 B, 578 C, 608 B.
8 Plainly a protesting question, “Why, do I think otherwise?” Cf. 339 D.
9 For the impossibility of J. and C.'s “or rather” see my note in A.J.P. vol. xiii. p. 234.
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