1 Cf.ὑποκινήσαντ᾽, Aristoph.Frogs 643.
2 An eminent scholar quaintly infers that Plato could not have written this page before he himself was fifty years old.
3 Plato having made his practical meaning quite clear feels that he can safely permit himself the short cut of rhetoric and symbolism in summing it up. He reckoned without Neoplatonists ancient and modern. Cf. also on 519 B, p. 138, note a.
4 Cf. 500 D-E. For παράδειγμα cf. 592 B and What Plato Said, p. 458, on Euthyphro 6 E, and p. 599, on Polit. 277 D.
5 Cf. 520 D.
6 Cf. 347 C-D, 520 E.
7 Plato's guardians, unlike Athenian statesmen, could train their successors. Cf. Protag. 319 E-320 B, Meno 99 B. Also ἄλλους ποιεῖνMeno 100 A, Gorg. 449 B, 455 C, Euthyph. 3 C, Phaedr. 266 C, 268 B, Symp. 196 E, Protag. 348 E, Isoc.Demon. 3, Panath. 28, Soph. 13, Antid. 204, Xen.Oecon. 15. 10, and παιδεύειν ἀνθρώπους, generally used of the sophists, Gorg. 519 E, Protag. 317 B, Euthyd. 306 E, Laches 186 D, Rep. 600 C.
8 Cf. p. 139, note d. Plato checks himself in mid-flight and wistfully smiles at his own idealism. Cf. on 536 B-C, also 540 C and 509 C. Frutiger, Mythes de Platon, p. 170.
9 Cf. Symp. 209 E.
10 For this caution cf. 461 E and Vol. I. p. 344, note c, on 427 C.
11 Plato plays on the words δαίμων and εὐδαίμων. Cf. also Crat. 398 b-C.
12 Cf. 361 D.
13 Lit. “female rulers.”
14 Cf. on 450 D and 499 C.
15 Cf. 499 D.
16 Cf. What Plato Said, p. 564 on Rep. 472 B-E, and p. 65, not h, on 499 D.
17 Cf. 463 C-D, 499 B-C.
18 Cf. 521 B, 516 C-D.
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