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Plato, Philebus 66A

R. G. Bury
The Classical Quarterly / Volume 33 / Issue 02 / April 1939, pp 108 - 108
DOI: 10.1017/S0009838800020991, Published online: 11 February 2009

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PLATO, PHILEBUS 66A.

IN C.Q. XXXIII. i (pp. 28-9) Mr. Hackforth makes an ingenious attempt to
defend and explain the text given by B and Eusebius. He takes irpdrov ( = rb
irpioTov KTfjfia) as the subject and rr)v dlBtov as a cognate, or contained, accus. with
ypfjo-Oat, and renders ' the first (possession) has been secured for everlasting tenure
somewhere in the region of Measure', etc. Apart from the grammatical difficulty
involved, I do not feel that the sense thus secured is quite natural or satisfactory.
Although I agree that Dies' riva, rjSiov is impossible as it stands, I think it points
the way to the true reading. ijStov, so far from being ' inappropriate', seems to me
quite in keeping with the playful tone of the passage with its mock-solemn injunction
to Protarchus (WVTJ/ 8ij ^jjo-ess KTA..) and its quotation from Orpheus (66c). The
rjSiov playfully echoes the rjSovrj but with a subtle change of meaning,' preferable',
' more desirable', as in phrases like o-ot y8tov. If this be granted, there seems no
objection to restoring KTrjfia rjStov rjpijcrdai. I may add that, with Dies, I prefer the
order of the preceding words given by T and Stobaeus (6nwa Totavra, xptj vop'fetv)
to that adopted by Burnet and Mr. Hackforth.
R. G.
CAMBRIDGE.

BURY.