ἵνα...συντέμω Or. 39 § 4; 37 § 21. The reason for the speaker's hurrying over this part of his statement is partly because the overtures of reconciliation on Phormion's side, which he takes credit to himself for candidly admitting, are really more to Phormion's credit than to his own.
ἐπειδὴ ποιεῖν κ τ.λ. Or. 36 § 33.
άποστερεῖν ‘withhold’; 36 § 13; 21 § 44; 27 §§ 6, 12, 18, 37 &c.
δίκην i.e. the suit κατὰ Φορμίωνος, to meet which a special plea is put in on Phormion's behalf in Or. 36. The words ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ἐξουσία ἐγένετο are possibly meant as a partial reply (they are at any rate the only reply given in this speech) to that portion of Phormion's plea which traversed his oppo nent's suit on the ground that it infringed the ‘statute of limitations’ (Or. 36 § 26). But it may be noticed on Phormion's side that at least 18 years had elapsed since the death of Apollodorus' father, and eight since that of his mother, before the suit was instituted; and during the interval the plaintiff found time for ever so many lawsuits in cases where his private interests were but partially concerned (Or. 36 § 53）
γνοὺς κ.τ.λ. Or. 59 § 68 γνοὺς Στέφανος οὑτοσὶ ὅτι ἐξελεγχθήσεται. πάντ'. Acc. Or. 19 § 161; 8 § 9; 41 § 29; 54 § 30; 28 § 1.—μηχανᾶται καὶ κατασκευάζει. Antiphon 1 § 28. The former verb occurs in § 24 and Or. 19 § 21: the latter, in §§ 13, 20, 22, 39, 41, 42 of this speech (Huettner).
παρεγράψατο κ.τ.λ. See notes on p. 2. παρεγράψατο is here followed by the acc. c. inf., τὴν δίκην μὴ εἰσαγώγιμον εἶναι, as in §§ 40, 81; Or. 36 § 24; 32 § 1; 33 § 3; 34 §§ 4. 43, 45; 37 §§ 1, 17; 38 §§ 1, 3. For μάρτυρας ὡς ἀφῆκα, see Or. 36 §§ 24, 25; and for the depositions on the ‘lease,’ ib. § 4, and on the ‘will,’ ib. § 7.
