179. *Skepsasthai kai syzêtêsai hoti pote estin; kai, tach' an, par'
allêla skopountes, kai tribontes, hôsper ek pureiôn, eklampsai
poiêsaimen tên dikaiosynên. Pater's translation: "to consider, to seek
out, what the thing may be. Perchance using our eyes in common,
rubbing away, we might cause Justice, for instance, to glint forth, as
from fire-sticks." Plato, Meno 80d for the first line and, for the
remainder, Republic 435a.
181. +Transliteration: hodos, kinêsis, methodos. Liddell and Scott
definitions: "path, motion, method."
181. +Transliteration: Alla metathômetha. E-text editor's translation:
"But let us follow out [a different path of thought]," or "let's
examine this from a different perspective." For example, Plato,
Republic 334e.
182. +Transliteration: noêtos topos. Pater's translation: "reasonable
world." Plato, Republic 508b.
184. +Transliteration: homoion homoiô. Pater's translation: "like to
like." Variants of the phrase occur in many of Plato's dialogues; see,
for example, Parmenides 132d.
185. +Transliteration: hopê an ho logos, hôsper pneuma, pherê, tautê
iteon. Pater's translation: "we must just go where the argument
carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind." Plato, Republic 394d.
187. +Transliteration: epistêmê. Liddell and Scott definition "1.
knowledge, understanding, skill, experience, wisdom; 2. scientific
knowledge."
189. +Transliteration: Kindyneuei. Pater's translation: "it may chance
to be."
190. +Transliteration: theôria. Liddell and Scott definition: "a
looking at, viewing, beholding . . . contemplation, reflection." Pater
defines it in Platonic terms as "immediate intuition." For example,
Plato, Republic 486a.
190. +Transliteration: apokamnôn. Liddell and Scott definition:
"grow[ing] quite weary." See, for example, Plato, Protagoras 333b.
191. +Transliteration: megaloprepôs. Liddell and Scott definition / E-
text editor's translation: "liberally." The exchange between
Thrasymachus and Socrates to which Pater refers begins at Republic
345b.
192. +Transliteration: Dialogos peirastikos. Pater's translation: "a
Dialogue of search."
195. +Transliteration: kosmos. Liddell and Scott definition: "I. 1.
order; 2. good order, good behaviour, decency; 3. a set form or order:
of states, government; 4. the mode or fashion of a thing; II. an
ornament. . .; III. the world or universe, from its perfect
arrangement."
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