Or, ‘will they not deserve to be called sophisms,’ ….

Heraclitus said that the sun was extinguished every evening and relighted every morning.

Reading κατηκόῳ or κατηκόοις.

Reading ἦ καὶ ἐὰν οὕτω θεῶνται without a question, and ἀλλοίαν τοι: or, retaining the question and taking ἀλλοίαν δόξαν in a new sense: ‘Do you mean to say really that, viewing him in this light, they will be of another mind from yours, and answer in another strain?’

Cp. IV. 435 D.

Or, separating καὶ μάλα from ἄξιον, ‘True, he said, and a noble thought’: or ἄξιον τὸ διανόημα may be a gloss.

Reading ἀνὴρ καλός: or reading ἀνὴρ καλῶς, ‘I quite well knew from the very first, that you, &c.’

A play upon τόκος, which means both ‘offspring’ and ‘interest.’

Reading διανοοῦ.

Reading: ἄνισα.