previous next
τὰ λαμπρὰ καὶ νεανικά ‘their splendid and spirited pleas.’

οὐ γὰρ κ.τ.λ. ‘What! sha'n't we. &c.,’ quidni igitur?

ὧν παρέξεται constr. τί δὲ καὶ δεινόν ἐστιν ἐκ τούτων ἂ παρέξεται ὁ Ἀρίστων κατὰ σοῦ; ‘is there any serious harm, anything really worth fearing?’

ἧφθαι passive referring to Ariston, like τυπτόμενον just before. ‘ἧμμαι is pf. mid. in Soph. Tr. 1009 (ἧπται) and Pl. Phaedr. 260 (ἦφθαι）’ (we may add Dem. Or. 51 § 5 ἧφθαι τῆς τριήρους τούτους); ‘pf. passive in Eur. Hel. 107, Ar. Pl. 301 and Thuc. IV 100.’ Veitch, Greek Verbs.

ἐρράφθαι § 41 τὸ χεῖλος διακοπεὶς οὕτως ὥστε ῥαφῆναι. This was doubtless part of the surgeon's evidence in § 10.

κατεαγέναι second perfect in passive sense. For other constructions, cf. Plato Gorg. 469 D, τῆς κεφαλῆς κατεαγέναι and Lys. Or. 3 § 40 καταγεὶς τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ.

Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide References (2 total)
  • Commentary references from this page (2):
    • Demosthenes, On the Trierarchic Crown, 5
    • Lysias, Against Simon, 40
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: