1. See p. 339 n. 8.

2. Notice how Euthydemus takes over from Dionysodorus (and see also 297a): Euthydemus is the more rigorous of the pair, in the sense that Dionysodorus has not fully expurgated himself of common beliefs, such as that falsehood is possible and, in 297a, that ignorance is possible!

3. See Theaetetus 161d–e for the same ad hominem point, against Protagoras.

4. Literally ‘What a Cronus you are!’ Cronus was the god deposed by his son Zeus: a proverbial symbol of what is pasté.

5. Socrates is threatening to expose that Dionysodorus is again (see 286e) tacitly accepting the possibility of refutation.

6. Reading τοúτω γ’ οú πάνυ χασθρι with the manuscripts and Badham.