καὶ τῆς μὲν ἐργασίας ὲφθόνησεν The subject is τίς ἀνθρώπων repeated from the previous sentence.
οὗ sc. ὀνείδους, viz. the disgrace τοῦ γυναῖκα τούτῳ δεδωκέναι.
τυχών γε τῆς παρ᾽ ὑμῶν δωρειᾶς The fact that Pasion was made a citizen of Athens increases the disgrace brought on his family by his providing in his alleged will that his wife should marry Phormion.—Or. 59 § 2 ψηφισαμένου τοῦ δήμου τοῦ Ἀθηναίων Ἀθηναῖον εἷναι Πασίωνα καὶ ἐκγόνους τοὺς ἐκείνου διὰ τὰς εὐεργεσίας τὰς εἰς τὴν πόλιν followed by τῆ̣ τοῦ δήμου δωρειᾷ. Or. 36 § 47. [τυχών γε seems an imaginary answer in favour of Phormion; ‘very true; but then it was after he had received the franchise (that he took the wife).’ ‘So then’ (the retort is), ‘like a slave who makes a wife over to his master, rather than in the converse case, Pasion gave him, it seems, a marriage portion larger than any citizen ever did!’ P.]
ὥσπερ ἂν sc διδοίη. Pasion's gift of his wife with a large dowry to Phormion, is the kind of gift a slave might offer his master in acknowledgment that all the slave had belonged by right to his master, and not such a gift as might be expected from a superior to an inferior. In the latter case a very slight favour would be enough. At any rate the inferior would be content with being allowed to have the honour of being married to his superior's wife, without any dowry at all.
εἴπερ ἐδίδου which Apoll. does not admit.
προστιθεὶς προῖκα Or. 40 § 25 προσθέντας (sc. προῖκα) ἐκδοῦναι. Fals. Leg. § 195 προῖκα προσθεὶς ἐκδώσω καὶ οὐ περιόψομαι πα θούσας οὐδὲν ανάξιον οὔθ᾽ ἡμῶν οὔτε τοῦ πατρός (cf. § 54 infra προῖκα ἐπιδοὺς ἐκδοῦναι, n.). Isaeus Or. 3 (Pyrrhus) § 51 δοκεῖ δ᾽ ἄν τις ὑμῖν οὕτως ἀναιδὴς ἢ τολμηρὸς εἰσποίητος γενέσθαι ὥστε μηδὲ τὸ δέκατον μέρος ἐπιδοὺς ἐκδοῦναι τῆ̣ γνησίᾳ θυγατρὶ τῶν πατρῴων; Hyperides, Lycophron § 13 εὐθὺς ἐξεδόθη, τάλαντον ἀργυρίου προσθέντος αὐτῇ Εὐφήμου. The commoner term was ἐπιδοῦναι (cf. §§ 30, 54, &c.).
ὅσην οὐδεὶς κ.τ.λ. The mother of Demosthenes had a dowry of only 80mna.; the mother of Mantitheus 60mna.; the two daughters of Polyeuctus 40mna. each. (Dareste.)
