1. See 195e and especially 198e-199a with p. 112 n. 1.

2. See 192d, ‘wise endurance’, i.e. a combination of the kind indicated above in the discussion of interpretation (B).

3. Pace Guthrie, p. 133 n. I, who briefly dismisses this view.

4. A word of caution is needed here, for there is a danger in all these views that the philosophical relationship of the ideas expressed in various dialogues is being confused with the chronological order of composition. In the absence of a certain word on the purpose and intended audience of Plato’s work, it cannot be assumed that whichever of two dialogues appears to contain the more developed philosophical theories is necessarily the later and more mature.