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ἄρδοντος. The metaphor is common: cf. X 606 D and Euthyph. 2 D with my note ad loc. So also in Cor. I 3. 6 ἐγὼ ἐφύτευσα, Ἀπόλλως ἐπότισεν. διὰ τὸ κτλ.: ‘because he is not naturally a bad man,’ lit. ‘his nature is not that of a bad man’: not ‘because he is by birth the son of no bad man.’ εἰς τὸ μέσον -- ἦλθε κτλ. A compromise is effected, reminding us of the compromise which converted the aristocratical State into τιμαρχία: cf. 547 B εἰς μέσον ὡμολόγησαν κτλ. The aorists ἦλθε, παρέδωκε etc. are past, and should be so translated: see on 548 D. ἔχομεν ἄρα κτλ. Richards thinks this sentence interrogative; but ἄρα rather points the other way.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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