ἀμήχανόν
κτλ. Supply from the context, with Stallb.,
“nam hoc ita si sit.” Rückert, after Schleierm., wrongly
connects this clause with the preceding, “qua fiat, ut tu melior evadas,
atque exinde immensam in me pulcritudinem cernas”; while Hommel makes it
depend upon εἴπερ. Cp. Rep. 509 B, 608 D; Charm. 155 D.
εὐμορφίας. For the notion of a
beauty-competition here suggested, cp. Xen. Symp. V. 1. Cp. also the
σοφία-match of 175
E.
ἀντὶ δόξης ἀλήθειαν κ. “Real
for sham beauties”: ἀλήθειαν
καλῶν=ἀλήθινα καλά. Cp. Phileb. 36 C ff.; and for the
antithesis, cp. 198 E, 212
A
supra.
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