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getVier with every form of knowledge ? dpa iraa-av ■^Bovr)v Traxrrj 

 i^povrjcrci fJiiywvTC<; Tov KaK(a<i av fiaXiaT i7nTV)(0Lix€v ; (§ 145). 



b. It is felt that this might not be a safe procedure ; and there- 

 fore Socrates, recalling a distinction which had been drawn in a 

 previous part of the dialogue, between pleasures as more or less 

 true, and between forms of knowledge as more or less true, puts 

 the question : ovkow ei TaXrj$ecrTaTa Tfirjfiara cKarcpas iBoifiev irpuyrov 

 ^/tjnt^avTCs, ap' LKava ravra ^vyK€Kpafjieva tov ayaTrrjTOTaTov ^lov 

 a.7repyaaap.€va Trape^eiv t7)u,iv, r) tivo<s en TrposSeo/xc^a Kat twv fi-q toiovtwv ; 

 (§ 146). The construction of this sentence is rather difficult ; but 

 Stallbaum appears to be right in observing that «pa is to be taken in 

 the sense of irorcpov, and that we must supply before h the expres- 

 sion op^ws av TTotoLfjiev. The meaning then is : shall we not be doing 

 right, if, commencing by mixing together the truest portions of 

 each of the two classes of knowledge and pleasure, we contemplate 

 the life thus produced, and consider whether it is the most desirable 

 that can be framed, or whether we require to add some ingredients 

 distinct from those already used ? Protarchus answers : ifx-oi yow 

 SoKci Spav ovTws — thus assenting to the course of procedure sug- 

 gested. 



c. No difficulty is felt in determining that all the truer forms of 

 knowledge, in other words, all those iTria-Trjixai. which have for their 

 objects eternal and immutable realities, must enter into the life that 

 is to be in the highest degree good, 'Eotw Srj ns rjixiv <f>povwv dvOpioiroi 

 dvrrj's Trept SiKatooT^vr/s, o ti ecm, k. t. A (§ 147). 



d. According to the line of investigation proposed (5), the ques- 

 tion should now have been taken up, whether all the truer pleasures 

 must have a place in the most desirable life ; but (as will fall to be 

 again noticed) the scheme which was laid down is departed from, and 

 the enquiry is pursued with respect to the less true kinds of know- 

 ledge. These, it is decided, must be introduced into the ayairrforaTOi 

 y3ios, no less than the truer ; so that no species of knowledge is re- 

 jected. nPO. 'Otjkow iytjiye otSa, w ScoKpares, 6 rt tis d.v ySXauroiro 

 Trao-as Xaf^tav ras dXXa<s C7ricrr»7/x.as, ix<^v ras Trpwras. 2fi. MeOua Snj 

 Ttts ^/ATracras peiv cts t7;v tt^s 'Ofxyjpov Kai fxaXa TrotrfriKr)? /xwryayxeias 

 'vTro8oxw; nPO. Ilai/i; /acv ovv fi^Buvrai (§§ 148, 149). 



(e.) Pleasures fall next to be disposed of (xai TraXtv ctti t^v twv 

 riZoviiiv 7rrjyr]v Ireov. § 150.) The term iraXiv need not create difficulty. 



