Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato (Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.27)

The catchword at the bottom right is "eye" ὄμματι.

nor as the Pythagoreans original: "πυθαγόριοι" do through the tasting of the passions, and what is called "by the tip of the finger." For one could not cure someone burning with passions, they say, unless one yields a little to them. For this reason, in the poet Homer, Athena original: "ἀθηνᾶ" is depicted encouraging Pandarus original: "πάνδαρον" to commit perjury, as he was inclined toward this. For if we do not understand it this way, it would be absurd to believe a god is inciting one to commit sin. For this reason, the poet also has him punished by his tongue, with which he swore the false oath. Therefore, Socrates original: "σωκράτης" does not rectify souls in the way the aforementioned physicians do. Rather, he does so through similarities. If someone is erotic loving/passionate, he says, "Learn what the love of the beautiful is." If someone is a lover of money, we say, "Learn what self-sufficiency is." If he is a lover of pleasure, "What is the true ease," which the poet even attributes to the gods, saying:

The gods who live at ease.
Thus, being such toward Alcibiades original: "ἀλκιβιάδην", he makes the argument about knowing oneself politically. Mixed in, however, is the argument concerning the purgative and the contemplative. For he says here that just as if the creator original: "δημιουργὸς" commanded the

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