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2. ἐστεφανῶσθαι (sc. ἐμέ), that the proposal to crown me has passed the Senate: cf. ἐπῄνεσεν in § 113.3. 3. γραφέν μοι, proposed in my honour: see note on § 56.4. 4. τοῦ προβουλεύματος: partitive after οἷς. The meaning is, that he will use the omissions from the decree in the indictment to show the malice of Aeschines in prosecuting the clauses which he includes. ἃ διώκει συκοφαντῶν: see XXIII. 61, συκοφαντοῦμεν τὸ πρᾶγμα. The orator now calls for the reading of the bill of Ctesiphon, ostensibly to prove the point just made, but perhaps chiefly to recall to the minds of the judges Ctesiphon's enumeration of his public services which the Senate has approved. In the following spurious decree the Archon's name is wrong and different from that in the indictment (which is also wrong).
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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