δοκιμασθέντος The δοκιμασία (see Dict. Antiq.) took place on ‘coming of age,’ usually at 18. Aristotle's Constitution of Athens, 42 § 1 ἐγγράφονται δ᾽ εἰς τοὺς δημότας ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἔτη γεγονότες. § 2 μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα δοκιμάζει τοὺς ἐγγραφέντας ἡ βουλή.
ἀφήκατ᾽...ἀφῆκαν The forms ἀφήκατε and ἀφῆκαν and παρέδωκαν §§ 14, 44 are rather unusual. But Isaeus 5 § 1 has ἀφήκαμεν; Dem. 38 § 18, 27 § 3, Dinarch. 1 § 57, Aeschin. 3 § 85, ἀφήκατε; Thuc. 7, 19, 4 ἀφῆκαν. Attic writers, however, prefer in the plural the inflexion of the second aorist, ἀφεῖμεν, ἀφεῖτε and (as in §§ 11, 14) ἀφεῖσαν. See Veitch's Greek Verbs, Kuhner-Blass, Gr. Gr. I 2, pp. 196, 214, and Wyse on Isaeus 5 § 1.
The two brothers Apollodorus and Pasicles are directly addressed in ἀφήκατε, not the jury, as is shown by ἀπῃτεῖτε following.
ἀφῆκαν τῆς μισθώσεως κ.τ.λ. Or. 45 § 5 μάρτυρασὡς ἀφῆκα αὐτὸν τῶν ἐγκλημάτων παρέσχετο ψευδεῖς, καὶ μισθώσεώς τινος ἐσκευωρημένης καὶ διαθήκης οὐδεπώποτε γενομένης.
