[1]: Hom. Il.24.348
[2]: The friend had an attendant who was sitting by him.
[3]: The passage from the front door led into a cloister which surrounded an open court and gave access to the various rooms of the house:
[4]: Hom. Od. 11.601
[5]: Hom. Od. 11.582
[6]: A touch of epic dignity is humorously given to the mention of the two famous sophists, Hippias and Prodicus.
[7]: A famous athlete and trainer.
[8]: A trainer who also practised medicine
[9]: A music-teacher
[10]: A music-teacher
[11]: In the Plat. Meno 91e we are told that Protagoras lived nearly seventy years, forty of which he spent in teaching.
[12]: i.e., of arts originally apportioned to gods alone.
[13]: The public inquiry to which a magistrate was liable after his term of office.
[14]: A dramatic festival, chiefly for comedies, held about the end of January.
[15]: Two notorious rogues.
[16]: The metaphor is of a long-distance race of about 2 3/4 miles.
[17]: cf. below, Plat. Prot. 333c.
[18]: Probably such oil had a specially appetizing flavor or scent.
[19]: See Plat. Prot. 329b, note.
[20]: cf. Pheidippides in Hdt. 6.105.
[21]: The translation attempts to follow the jingle of καλῶς . . . Καλλία
[22]: Prodicus was specially expert in nice verbal distinctions
[23]: Hippias professed to teach a great variety of subjects. His frequent metaphors were evidently designed to display his wide range of knowledge.
[24]: Simonides Fr. 37.1
[25]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.11
[26]: Pittacus, ruler of Mytilene, despaired of rilling well on the ground here stated.
[27]: Hom. Il. 21.308
[28]: Hes. WD 289
[29]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.14
[30]: cf. Plat. Prot. 339a above.
[31]: cf. Plat. Prot. 316d. This whole passage is a mocking answer to Protagoras’ eulogy of sophistry.
[32]: Short cloaks or capes worn in a fashion imitated from the Spartans.
[33]: i.e., people who have come to acquire the Spartan way of life, in order to spread it in other cities.
[34]: In this view of the purpose of the poem (which is to show that there is no lasting perfection in human life), and in the detailed commentary that follows, Socrates is aping the disquisitions of the more literary sophists (e.g., Hippias, who warmly approves, Plat. Prot. 347a).
[35]: Simonides 37.1.14-16
[36]: Unknown.
[37]: unknown
[38]: The quotation of Simonides’ poem is resumed (from Plat. Prot. 344c).
[39]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.17
[40]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.19
[41]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.22ff.
[42]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.27ff.
[43]: Simonides Fr. 37.1.33ff.
[44]: The form of the word ἐπαίνημι is pedantically adduced to emphasize the poet’s censure of Pittacus.
[45]: Hom. Il. 10.224.
[46]: cf. Plat. Prot. 329c ff.
[47]: The intellectual control of our sense-perceptions, which differ as to the size or number of the same things when near and when distant, etc., has an important part in the educational scheme of the Republic. The measuring art is further considered in the Politicus (283 ff.).
[48]: cf. Plat. Prot. 352b ff.
[49]: Yielding to oneself and mastery of oneself are here put instead of being overcome by pleasure and the opposite state. The conflict between the better and worse self is discussed in Plat. Rep. 4.430e ff.
[50]: cf. Plat. Prot. 330a ff.
[51]: cf. Plat. Prot. 349d ff.
[52]: cf. Plat. Prot. 321c.