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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt:...us that I said," etc. noppa piv Tt)s arj8eias iv. Vulg. oiaa, against Ms. authority. The corruption was induced by the unusual position of the clause necessary for emphasising the remark. 603 B. r) Kara Ttv otyiv, sc. piprjrixr): meaning of course r) ypafpiKr). ix rr)s ypafiKijs, construct with eixdTM: "the natural inference from the instance of painting." cV airo rrjs biavotas Tovto. "Let us proceed to investigate this precise department of the intellect." 603 C. rj: supply irmepov before pavov. /3iaiour. Of two terminations only, as in 399 A, "involuntary." pr) Ti SKko napa Tovto. The best supported reading is pr) Ti Oxxo )j, which must be translated "Perhaps there is something to be added to this" (cf. pr) dypoiKorepov rj To arjdes elneiv, Gorg. p. 462 E): this reading is adopted by Hermann, and in the Zurich edition of 1839. The reading pr) Ti nXXo rj napa Tuvtu is almost untranslatable. Ast's reading rjv is tempting, but the defence of the imperfect is difficult, though Gorg. p. 478 c is a similar passage. Stallbaum and Baiter (1874) omit rj altogether, though with very slight authority; but two points are in their favour: (1) the excellent sense obtained; (2) the consideration that rj might very easily have been unconsciously inserted by a copyist, oXXo being so constantly followed by it. opovorjriKais. In pp. 439 c sqq. (cf. iv To'is ava Xdyots below) one of the main arguments for the division of the soul was found in the fact of different inclinations being simultaneously experienced. 603 E. paara raw Skav, "much more easily than all the rest" the common idiom in which a superlative takes the place of a comparative. The Grammars supply plenty of instances, Greek as well as...