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And when these dread magiAn overlooked reference to the Magi who set up the false Smerdis. Cf. Herod. iii. 61 ff. and king-makers come to realize that they have no hope of controlling the youth in any other way, they contrive to engender in his soul a ruling passionCf. Symp. 205 D. to be the protector προστάτην: cf. 562 D and 565 C-D. of his idle and prodigalFor τὰ ἕτοιμα cf. 552 B, Symp. 200 D and E, and Horace, Odes i. 31. 17 frui paratis. appetites, a monstrous wingedCf. Alc. I. 135 E ἔρωτα ὑπόπτερον and the fragment of Eubulus (fr. 41, Kock ii. p. 178): τίς ἦν ὁ γράψας πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων ἄρα ἢ κηροπλαστήσας Ἔρωθ’ ὑπόπτερον drone. Or do you think the spirit of desire in such men is aught else? Nothing but that, he said. And when the other appetites, buzzingCf. 564 D. about it, replete with incense and myrrh and chaplets and wine, and the pleasures that are released in such revelries, magnifying and fostering it to the utmost, awaken in the drone the sting of unsatisfied yearnings,Cf. Phaedrus 253 E. why then this protector of the soul has madness for his body-guard and runs amuck,For οἰστρᾷ Cf. Phaedr. 240 D. and if it finds in the man any opinions or appetites accountedFor ποιουμένας in this sense cf. 538 C, 498 A, 574 D. worthy and still capable of shame, it slays them and thrusts them forth until it purgesCf. on 560 D, p. 299, note c. him of sobriety, and fills and infects him with frenzy brought in from outside. ἐπακτοῦ: cf. 405 B, Pindar, Pyth. vi. 10, Aesch. Seven against Thebes 583, Soph. Trach. 259. A perfect description, he said, of the generation of the tyrannical man. And is not this analogy, said I, the reason why Love has long since been called a tyrantCf. 573 D, Eurip. Hippol. 538, Andromeda, fr. 136 (Nauck)θεῶν τύραννε . . . Ἔρως, and What Plato Said, p. 546 on Symp. 197 B.? That may well be, he said. And does not a drunken man,For drunkenness as a tyrannical mood Cf. Laws 649 B, 671 B, Phaedr, 238 B. my friend, I said, have something of this tyrannical temper? Yes, he has. And again the madman, the deranged man, attempts and expects to rule over not only men but gods. Yes indeed, he does, he said. Then a man becomes tyrannical in the full sense of the word, my friend, I said, when either by nature or by habits or by both he has become even as the drunken, the erotic, the maniacal. Assuredly. Such, it seems, is his origin and character,Cf. Adam ad loc., who insists it means his origin as well as that of others, and says his character is still to be described. But it has been in C and before. but what is his manner of life? As the wits say, you shall tell me.Cf. Phileb. 25 B and perhaps Rep. 427 E with 449 D. The slight jest is a commonplace today. Wilamowitz, Platon, ii. p. 351, says it is a fragment of an elegy. He forgets the Philebus. I do, I said; for, I take it, next there are among them feasts and carousals and revellings and courtesansCf. Vol. I. p 160, note a on 373 A. Emendations are superfluous. and all the doings of those whose ὦν ἄν: cf. 441 D-E ὅτου, etc., 583 A ἐν ᾧ and my review of Jowett and Campbell, A.J.P. xvi. p. 237. souls are entirely swayedCf. Phaedr. 238 B-C. by the indwelling tyrant Eros. Inevitably, he said. And do not many and dread appetites shoot up beside this master passion every day and night in need of many things? Many indeed. And so any revenues there may be are quickly expended. Of course.
