1. To précis the following argument: Hippias is right, since he is taking ‘both’ in the sense of two separate things (so that, say, two small people are both – are a pair of- small people). Socrates understands ‘both’in the same way in the case of ‘fine’, but also trades on the ambiguity of ‘both’ and takes it as a pair, considered as a distinct entity (so that two small people are not a small pair of people). Compare Aristotle, Politics 1261b 27–30, who may have our dialogue in mind.

2. See 282d-e.

3. I suppose that 300b is meant.