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τίς χρηματιστὴς sc. ποῖος, ‘what sort of money-maker,’ i.e. ὡς φαῦλος. [For τίς used as ποῖος, Shilleto, on Fals. Leg. § 15, quotes the present passage (translating it, ‘what sort of an economist’), and Or. 37, Pant. § 69 λέγε δή μοι τὰς μαρτυρίας, τίς ἐγὼ.. ἄνθρωπος ελμί, followed bv τοιοῦτος...ἐγώ.—For Mantias' character as an indifferent man of business cf. n. on Argument, l. 1. S.] ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ sc. ὄντα συκοφάντην. ‘It thereby proves him to be ipso facto (as we say) dishonest in bringing these actions,’ viz. since no money could have been due to him from the father, sc. ἐάν τι οὗτοι τῶν πατρῴων ἐπιζητῶσι, Or. 40 § 15. δὔ οἰκίας A wife seems only to have insisted on the mistress living apart. Hence Deianira's grievance in Soph. Trach. 376, 537. —τοιοῦτος ὢν, i.e. οὕτω δαπανηρός.
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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