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ὥσπερ παλαιστής. The Scholiast remarks ἔθος γὰρ τούτοις, ὅταν πέσωσιν ὁμοῦ—πάλιν ἐγερθέντας ἐφ᾽ ὁμοίῳ συμπλακῆναι σχήματι, ὅπερ τὴν αὐτὴν εἶπε λάβην. Plato, as Stallbaum points out, uses the same figure in Phaedr. 236 B: cf. Phil. 13 D, Laws 682 E and ἀντιλαμβανόμενος VI 505 A note ἐπιθυμῶ -- ἀκοῦσαι: ‘I am desirous also on my own account to hear’ sc. apart from the half-polemical motive suggested by the figure. Herwerden remarks “locus vix sanus,” but it is sound enough, although the English translators (“I shall particularly wish” etc. Jowett) miss the meaning.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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