πόλεμον This suspension of lawsuits, which the plaintiff found in force on returning from his trierarchy in B.C. 368, was due to the hostilities between Athens and Thebes in the period between the battle of Leuctra in B.C. 371, and the death of Epaminondas at the battle of Mantineia in B.C. 362. The courts were not sitting for ordinary business, perhaps because there was no pay for the dicasts (cf. Or. 39 § 17); and the only process that was available under the circumstances was a public action. So (just below) δικῶν οὐκ οὐσῶν means, as the courts continued closed for piivate suits. ὑμεῖς refers to the citizens generally, who are said, in the medial sense, ‘to have had the sessions (τας δίκας) postponed.’ Cf. Meier and Schomann, p. 187, n. 116 Lipsius.
θεσμοθέτας Isocr. Or. 20, κατὰ Λοχίτου § 2, περὶ τῆς ὕβρεως... ἔξεστι τῷ βουλομένῳ τῶν πολιτῶν γραψαμένῳ πρὸς τοὺς θεσμοθέτας εἰσελθεῖν είς ὑμᾶς. (Meier and Schomann, pp. 79, 397 Lips.)
χρόνου γιγνομένου—γραφῆς ἐκκρουομένης See note on Or. 36 § 2, ἵν᾽ ἐκκρούοντες χρόνους ἐμποιῶμεν. For χρόνου δὲ γιγνομένου, Reiske ingeniously, but perhaps unnecessarily, proposes χρόνου δ᾽ ἐγγιγνομένου, which at any rate modifies the slight inelegance of the triplerepetition γιγνομένου . .γίγνονται. .ἐγίγνοντο. χρόνος ἐγγίγνεται is found in Or. 19 § 324; 37 § 2; 47 §§ 29, 30, 32, 63. χρόνου γενομένου occurs in Hdt. I 73, and Diod XX 109; cf. Lycurg. 21 ἐπειδὴ χρόνος ἐγένετο
φιλάνθρωποι λόγοι ‘Kindly overtures’ (blanditiae, G. H. Schaefer). Cf. 6 § 1; 23 § 165; 19 §§ 220, 315; de Corona § 6 and § 298 οὔτε φιλανθρωπία λόγων οὔτ᾽ ἐπαγγελιῶν μέγεθος, Midias § 75 οὔτε κλαύσαντα οὔτε δεηθέντα ...οὔτε φιλάνθρωπον...οὐδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν πρὸς τοὺς δικαστὰς ποιήσαντα, where perhaps bribery is tacitly meant. (Cf. Shilleto on Fals. leg. § 117.)
μέτριοι ..ταπεινοὶ i.e. ‘both moderate and reasonable in their terms.’ Fals. leg. § 15 μετρίους λόγους, where Shilleto quotes Ulpian: ἤγουν ἐπιεικεῖς, φιλανθρώπους.
