1. τῷδε (like τόνδε and τῷδε in § 223.8) is Ctesiphon, who is οὗτος in 4; while Aeschines is τοῦτον αὐτὸν in 3.
5. μηκέτ̓ ἐᾶν...κατηγορεῖν: the principle that “no man can be twice put in jeopardy for the same offence” is distinctly stated in the Attic law: see XX. 147, οἱ νόμοι δ᾽ οὐκ ἐῶσι δὶς πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν οὔτε δίκας οὔτ̓ εὐθύνας οὔτε διαδικασίαν οὔτ̓ ἄλλο τοιοῦτον οὐδὲν εἶναι, and XXIV. 55. This could here be urged by Ctesiphon as a moral, though not as a legal, argument. Aeschines is prosecuting him now on the ground of charges against Demosthenes which were indirectly declared false by the acquittal of Hyperides eight years before,—charges for which he did not similarly prosecute H. then and for which he could not legally prosecute Dem. now. This is all an answer to διὰ τί; (which refers to § 223 (end)). —τῶν οὕτω πραχθέντων, matters so settled (as these charges against Dem.): see XXXVI. 60, δικάζεσθαι τῶν οὕτω πραχθέντων.
7. ἐφ᾽ αὑτοῦ, on its own merits: i.e. before any judgment of the court had been passed upon the case.
