χαρίζεσθαι ἐρασταῖς. χαρίζεσθαι, obsequi, “to
grant favours”—the converse of διαπράξασθαι—is a vox propria in this
connexion: cp. Schol. ad Phaedrus 227 C
τὸ χαριστέον ἐστὶν...τὸ πρὸς ἀφροδίσιον ἑαυτὸν
συνουσίαν ἐπιδιδόναι τινί. For the sentiment here disputed, see Xen.
Symp. VIII. 19 ff.; Mem. I. 2. 29; and the paradox in
Phaedrus 233 E
ἴσως προσήκει οὐ τοῖς σφόδρα δεομένοις
χαρίζεσθαι. Aeschines I. 136 agrees with Pausanias.
τὴν ἀκαιρίαν.
“Impropriety” or “tactlessness”: for exx. of
such ἀκαιρία, see 181
D, Phaedrus 231 D ff.
ὁ...νόμος
. νόμος here includes both “law”
proper and “public sentiment” or “custom”
(“die Anschauungen des Volkes,” Hug) which are distinguished in
Dem. de Cor. 114: cp. Thuc. VI. 18. 7: but in Thuc. VI. 16. 2
νόμος is “custom.”
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