οὐκ ἐθέλων ἀπολιπεῖν. This passage
echoes the language of Phaedrus in 179 A: ἐγκαταλιπεῖν γε τὰ παιδικὰ κτλ., and ὅπλα ἀποβαλών. To rescue a man's arms was to save him
from the disgrace attaching to ὅπλων ἀποβολή.
οὔτε μέμψῃ. Here for the fifth time
Alcib. challenges Socr. to contradict him (cf. 219
C): for μέμφομαι, cp. 213 E.
ἀξίωμα. “Social
standing”: “erat genere Alcmaeonida...ipse Periclis in tutela
erat” (Rückert). Cp. I. Alc. 104 B; Thuc. II. 37, V.
43, etc.
ἤ σαυτόν. We should expect μᾶλλον ἢ αὐτός, but the accus. is put in order to
balance ἐμὲ, “propter oppositionis
gravitatem” (Stallb.). For the omission of μᾶλλον after words “denoting a wish or choice,” see
Madv. Gr. S. § 93 c.
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