14. οὐχ ὅτι: ‘not but what’. The idiom (as if οὐ λέγω ὅτι,
omitto quod) is tolerably common in Plato, e.g. Gorg. 450E οὐχ
ὅτι τῷ ῥήματι οὕτως εἶπες, Theaet. 157B τὸ δ᾽ εἶναι πανταχόθεν
ἐξαιρετέον, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς—ἠναγκάσμεθα—χρῆσθαι αὐτῷ.
16. χρὴ γὰρ κτλ.: said apologetically.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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