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Notes on Plutarch's De Genio Socratis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. A. Russell
Affiliation:
St. John's College, Oxford

Extract

(1) 583 b = p. 478. 26 Sieveking (Plutarchi Moralia, iii, Leipzig, 1929)

is objectionable. Since Lysis is already dead, cannot here signify ‘beforehand’. Its only other appropriate significance would seem to be ‘publicly, openly’: but also enters into the compound, and can only bear the sense ‘secretly’, which would involve us in a contradiction. so far as I know, does not occur elsewhere: nearly always has the sense ‘give some indication of…’.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1954

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References

page 62 note 1 I assume that they are independent witnesses, despite Manton, , C.Q. xlii (1949), 97 ff.Google Scholar: see Hubert, , Rh. Mus. xciii (1950), 330 ff.Google Scholar But Flaceliére, R. (Plutarque: Dialogue sur l'Amour, 1952, pp. 34 ff.Google Scholar) strongly supports Manton with new arguments.

page 62 note 2 Corruptions often occur in the immediate neighbourhood of lacunae: the wrong here may therefore be thought to afford confirmation of the suggestion that the lacuna was very close to it.

page 63 note 1 His point comes from Plato, Symp. 203 a: (sc.)