αὐτοὶ . . . μαθεῖν: Cf. e, l. 48 below. After αὐτοὶ ἑαυτῶν with comps., a second comparison sometimes follows by way of explanation. Cf. Legg. i. 649 a (ὁ οἶνος) πιόντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον αὐτὸν αὑτοῦ ποιεῖ πρῶτον ἵλεων (goodnatured) εὐθὺς μᾶλλον ἢ πρότερον, Hdt. viii. 86 ἐγένοντο μακρῷ ἀμείνονες αὐτοὶ ἑωυτῶν ἢ πρὸς Εὐβοίῃ, Thuc. vii. 66.
τοὺς ἀνδρείους: about the courageous. λέγειν is rarely used thus with an acc., without a following ὅτι or ὡς and a finite verb. Here, instead of ὅτι (ὡς) θαρραλέοι εἰσί, the acc. with the inf. is used. Cf. Symp. 199 e πειρῶ δὴ καὶ τὸν Ἔρωτα εἰπεῖν: ὁ Ἔρως ἔρως ἐστὶν οὐδενὸς ἢ τινός; 178 b Παρμενίδης δὲ τὴν Γένεσιν λέγει, πρώτιστον μὲν κτἑ., Phaedo 94 d οἷόν που καὶ Ὅμηρος ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ πεποίηκεν, οὗ λέγει τὸν Ὀδυσσέα: στῆθος δὲ πλήξας κτἑ.