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τὰ ὑπάρξαντα: ὑπάρχειν has two main uses (1) ‘to begin’ usually with the genitive, sometimes absolutely as in § 28, (2) ‘to be in the beginning’ (so here τὰ ὑπάρξαντα, ‘the original inheritance’), and so often merely ‘to be’, ‘to exist’, and followed by the dative ‘to belong to’. τηλικαῦτα: τηλικοῦτος is here equivalent to τοσοῦτος; for another meaning see § 22. τὸ μέγεθος, adverbial acc. qualifying thlikau=ta; cp. § 65 τοσοῦτοι τὸ πλῆθος. χρόνῳ δ᾽ ὕστερον, ‘some time afterwards’; cp. Lys. 3.39 “χρόνοις ὕστερον.” χρόνος can mean not only ‘time’, but also ‘a considerable period of time’; cp. Herodot. ix. 62 χρόνῳ ποτέ, ‘at last.’ ἀνὴρ φυγάς: his name is not recorded. πιστευθείς: in Greek, unlike Latin, verbs which in the active govern a gen. or dat. can be used personally in the passive; cp. οἱ ἀρχόμενοι (N. C. 38), ‘subjects’ (lit. ‘those ruled’), from ἄρχω, which in the active governs a genitive.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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