The orator recurs to the critical moment in the relations of Athens and Thebes, when both were astounded by the sudden seizure of Elatea, and the great question was whether Thebes would join Philip against Athens, or Athens against the invader.
1. ὁρῶν: with παρορῶντας (5), φυ- λαττομένους, and ἔχοντας (M.T. 904).
2. ὑπὸ τῶν...διεφθαρμένων: ex- pressing the agency by which the condition described in παρορῶντας etc. was effected, as if the participles were passive.
3. παρ᾽ ἑκατέροις, i.e. in each city. For Athens the great danger was that her old enmity against Thebes might prevent her from taking the only safe course, union with Thebes. For Philip's way of working in such cases, see § 61. Dissen contrasts παρ᾽ ἑκατέροις, apud utrosque seorsim, in each city, with ἀμφοτέροις (4), utrisque simul, both.
5. τὸ...αὐξάνεσθαι: appositive to the omitted antecedent of ὃ (3), which is the object of παρορῶντας etc.
7. ὅπως τοῦτο (τὸ προσκρούειν) μὴ γένοιτο (so Σ and L.1): most MSS. have the more common γενήσεται (M.T. 339, 340).
8. παρατηρῶν διετέλουν, I kept continual watch.
9. ταῦτα: the policy of friendship with Thebes (ταύτην τὴν φιλίαν, § 162.2), implied in ὅπως τοῦτο μὴ γένοιτο.
