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sphere have designed the noblest and fairest of natures ^" The italics 

 are mine. In this rendering, which appeal's to present the opinions 

 expressed in the notes of the commentators, there are several points 

 to which I would direct attention. In the first place, it seems some- 

 what awkward that kmxahTada!. should be given a passive meaning 

 {appellari), while [ieiiyjxo-v7i<Tdai, which is co-ordinate with it, is taken 

 as active {effecisse). In the next place, I cannot help feeling that, 

 thus taken, the sentence h [ikv ro'iz iraf} ■^p2v x. r. L, is but a poor 

 antithesis to iv rourocc; da x. z. A. I think that it should be translated 

 somewhat in the following manner : " And operating in other ways 

 to heal and organize, summons to its aid every va/ried device of science." 

 This would give l-KaaXsTaOai its more usual meaning of " calling in as 

 helper, c&c." Again, if the words xard iieydXa [lip-q are to be rendered 

 "in great provinces of the heaven" {rod ovpavou being understood), we 

 are told that the elements exist both in the entire heaven and in great 

 provinces of the heaven. Such pleonasms are certainly idiomatic 

 among the Greeks ; but, one would think, should not be unnecessarily 

 attributed to them. It would seem more in accordance with the con- 

 text to render xard iizydXa i±if>rj "in large quantities," i.e., these elements 

 not only exist in the entii"e heaven but also in great abundance there. 

 They are moreover as superior in q^iality as in quantity to oixrs. 



8. Ibid., 42 C. rovrcov Toivuv t^rji; 6(p6[j.e6a,idv rf/de d-Kavrwiiev, rj8ovd(; 

 xai Xbizaz (peudel^ en iidXXov rj rabraq ipaivoiiivac, rz xai ovaa': iv to7? 

 ^cuok;. 



Commentators usually put a comma after dnavrw/jiev, to avoid mak- 

 ing the accusative rjdovdz depend vipon it, and supply a dative after 

 di:avTW[iev. Stallbaum, however, shows that there is no need for 

 resorting to this artifice, as there are numerous examples of similar 

 vei'bs with an accusative instead of the dative. But it has occurred 

 to me that this passage is susceptible of a very difierent explanation. 

 From a comparison with a passage immediately preceding this (41 B), 

 where Socrates says, " Let us stand up, then, like wrestlers to this 

 new argument," I am inclined to think that here, too, we have one 

 of those metaphors from the training school, which one not unfre- 

 quently meets with in the dialogues of Plato (cp. Phileb. 13 D, and 

 Stallbaum's note on that passage). Instead, then, of rendering this 

 passage, with Professor Jo wet t, " Next let us see whether in another 

 direction we may not find pleasures and pains existing and appearing 

 in living beings, which are still more false than these," I would render, 



