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§ 34. The plaintiff has contrived to strike out the plea just mentioned, which I had put in among others. Never mind; the law remains in my favour, and the jury, acting on it, will not fail to do me justice. τῇ ἄλλῃ viz. ὧν ἂν ἀφῇ τις, &c., § 19. οὐκ ὄντων εἰσαγωγέων τῶν θεσμοθετῶν κ.τ.λ. Les thesmothètes, compétents pour introduire l'action de Panténète en tant qu'elle constitue une action en matière de mines, sont incompétents pour l'introduire en tant qu'elle soulève des griefs d'autre nature. Dareste.] τὸ δ᾽ ὅπως He seems to intimate that bribery or collusion of some kind had been employed. [SC. ἐξαλήλιπται. The only other passage where ὅπως is elliptically used in Demosthenes is Ol. 3 § 10 τὸ δ᾽ ὅπως, τοῦτο λέγε. S.] ἐξαλεῖψαι Or. 24, Timocr. § 38 ταῦτα πάντα Τιμοκράτης ἠφάνισεν ἐξήλειψεν. Tac. Agric. 2 ‘scilicet illo igne vocem populi Romani et libertatem senatus et conscientiam generis humani aboleri arbitrabantur.’ καὶ γὰρ ‘For even from this’; ‘from this also.’ Inf. § 58 καὶ γὰρ ἀκούσιοι φόνοι καὶ ὕβρεις, ‘for both manslaughter and outrage,’ &c. The meaning of this formula is too often overlooked; it very rarely, if ever, stands for the simple γάρ. See sup. § 5. —χάριτός τ᾽ ὢν, note the change of subject: ‘and that I am deserving of thanks rather than persecution.’ Kennedy.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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