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1. ἀγνωμοσύνην (cf. §§ 94.2, 207.7), want of feeling.

3. περὶ τῆς τύχης: see Aesch. III. 114, 157, 158, with 135, 136; cf. § 212 (above).—ὅλως μὲν is opposed to the special exception, ἐπειδὴ δ᾽ οὗτος (8).

4. προφέρει, taunts with.

5. ἣν, after suggesting the object of ἔχειν, is the object of οἶδεν.— βέλτιστα πράττειν: superlative of εὖ πράττειν. See Soph. O.C. 567: ἔξοιδ᾽ ἀνὴρ ὢν χώτι τῆς ἐς αὔριον οὐδὲν πλέον μοι σοῦ μέτεστιν ἡμέρας (Weil).

9. ὑπερηφάνως, arrogantly: op- posed to ἀνθρωπινώτερον, more humanly, i.e. more as one man should speak of another: cf. ὅστις...προφέρει (4).—χρῆται τῳ λόγῳ: cf. εἰ δικαίως χρήσομαι τῷ λόγῳ, § 233.8.

Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.

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