μὴ βιωτὸν. This echoes, by way of
contrast, 211 D
ἐνταῦθα... βιωτόν.
ἔχοντι ὡς ἔχω. Cp. ὧδ᾽ ἔχοντι, 215 A.
οὐκ...ἀληθῆ. Notice these repeated
protestations of veracity: cp. 214 E, 215 B (and see Introd. § II. A).
οὐκ ἂν καρτερήσαιμι. Contrast with this
the καρτερία of Socr., 219
D, 220 A.
βίᾳ...φεύγων. “Invitus mihique
ipsi vim inferens aufugio” (Rückert). Hommel wrongly takes βίᾳ with ἐπισχόμενος.
βύων, the conjecture of Abresch, based on Hesych. (βύων τὰ ὦτα: ἐπιφράττων) makes the order awkward and produces
tautology. ἐπισχόμενος τὰ ὦτα is the opposite of
the foregoing παρέχειν τὰ ὦτα: cp. Plut.
Pomp. 55; Hor. Ep. II. 2. 105 obturem patulas impune
legentibus aures; Acts vii. 57 συνέσχον τὰ
ὦτα αὐτῶν: Ps. lviii. 4, 5 (A.V.) “they are
like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of
charmers, charming never so wisely.” For the Σειρῆνες, cp. Hom. Od. XII. 39 ff., and see Harrison
Proleg. pp. 197 ff.
αὐτοῦ...παρὰ τούτῳ
. αὐτοῦ is not really
“redundant” (as Ast)—“sitting still here beside him,” i.e. “müssig
und entfernt von Staatsgeschaften” etc. (Rettig); cp. Ar.
Ran. 1490 ff.; Apol. 31
C ff.
καταγηράσω. Perhaps a double entendre—A. implying that S.'s moralizings
(“rumores senum severiorum”) would soon make an old man of him.
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