§ 42. The challenge had been drawn up so hastily that I had made no copy of it on my part; and thus he substituted the words ‘that I put to the torture’ for ‘that Mnesicles put to the torture,’ &c.
δεῖξαι It seems to have been the custom to produce the document before the proceedings commenced, that both parties might consent to the course pursued.
τὸ μέλλειν καλεῖσθαι sc. ἐπικεκλ. τῶν δικ. § 39. Cf. 58 § 43 καλουμένης τῆς γραφῆς. The broken sentences following imply the haste and suddenness of the act, the time pressing, as the plaintiff very well knew.
τὸν δακτύλιον The ring for sealing the challenge.
ἑτέραν Not, perhaps, literally another; but the terms agreed on had been so altered that virtually it became another.
ἀσελγείας He perhaps acted or spoke to Nicobulus, on his protesting, in a rough or blackguardly way.
