Note 69 — Chapter XXX · POLITIKUS.

Plato, Polit. p. 306 A. βασιλικὴ συμπλοκή, &c.

Schleiermacher in his Introduction to the Politikus (pp. 254-256) treats this βασιλικὴ συμπλοκὴ as a poor and insignificant function, for the political Artist determined and installed by so elaborate a method and classification. But the dialogue was already so long that Plato could not well lengthen it by going into fuller details. Socher points out (Ueber Platon’s Schrift. p. 274) discrepancies between the Politikus on one side, and Protagoras and Gorgias on the other — which I think are really discoverable, though I do not admit the inference which he draws from them.