20. προστῴῳ. The αὐλή was surrounded by cloisters. This προστῷον is doubtless that on which the passage from the πρόθυρον opened.
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18. ἅνθρωπος. According to Ast, the Greeks sometimes used
ἀνήρ and ἄνθρωπος without the article of a definite person sed
ita ut vel contemptionem vel reprehensionem aliquam simul
indicarent. But in the cases quoted in support of this usage
where the word is in an oblique case, the meaning is quite
general like the English ‘a man’, e.g. Rep. X. 596C δεινόν τινα
λέγεις καὶ θαυμαστὸν ἄνδρα; Phaedo, 98B ὁρῶ ἄνδρα τῷ μὲν νῷ
οὐδὲν χρώμενον; Soph. Phil. 1228 ἀπάταισιν αἰσχραῖς ἄνδρα καὶ
δόλοις ἑλών; Theaet. 155D ἐάν σοι ἀνδρός, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀνδρῶν
ὀνομαστῶντῆς διανοίας τὴν ἀλήθειαν—συνεξερευνήσωμαι: it is therefore safer to suppose (with Schanz and most Platonic scholars)
that where ἀνήρ and ἄνθρωπος of the MSS. can only be translated by ‘the man’, the rough breathing should be restored:
e.g. below, 315E and Phaedr. 267A, 268C; Rep. I. 331E.
Plato. Protagoras. J. Adam & A. M. Adam. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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