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ἀλλ̓ αὐτὸς -- ξύνοικος ᾖ. This thesis is developed and elaborated in Gorg. 472 D—481 B. ὑπέρ is here little if anything more than περί, cf. Laws 777 A ὑπὲρ τοῦ Διὸς ἀγορεύων. This usage, which appears on Inscriptions after 300 B.C. (Meisterhans^{3} p. 222), is very rare in Plato. It occurs occasionally in the Attic orators, especially with λέγειν, and is tolerably common in Polybius and later Greek: see Stephanus-Hase Thes. s. v. ὑπέρ and Jannaris Hist. Gr. Gr. § 1685. I do not think we are justified in translating (with Tucker) ‘on behalf of their view of the relations of justice and injustice.’
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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