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§§ 15—17. Continuation of the narrative. At the personal request and engagement of Lacritus that justice would be done, I lent Artemon the money, and Lacritus actually put his seal to the bond. I thought him a man of consideration, and was charmed by his plausible words. No sooner, however, had they got the money than they violated all the terms of the compact, and this at the instance of Lacritus himself. συσσημηναμένου ‘Joining in the signature.’ Or. 41 § 22 τί δὲ συνεσημαίνετο πάλιν τὰ μηδὲν ὑγιὲς ὄντα μηδ᾽ ἀληθῆ γράμματα; We cannot say how far this made Lacritus legally liable. Perhaps it was only a plausible show of acceptance; but it was not necessarily done fraudulently, as Androcles implies. μέγα πρᾶγμα ‘A great man,’ δοκῶν εἶναί τις. Herod. III 132 ἦν μέγιστον πρῆγμα Δημοκήδης τῷ βασιλέι. Ἰσοκράτους μαθητής Cicero, Brutus, § 32, ‘Isocrates, cmus domus cunctae Graeciae quasi ludus quidam patuit atque officina dicendi.’ Quintilian II 8, 11, ‘Clarissimus ille praeceptor Isocrates, quem non magis libri bene dixisse, quam discipuli bene docuisse testantur.’ A. mongst his best-known pupils were the orators Isaeus, Hyperides, Lycurgus; the historians Theopompus and Ephorus; also Timotheus the celebrated general, and Androtion the orator and demagogue. Demosthenes, who describes Androtion as τεχνίτης τοῦ λέγειν καὶ πάντα τὸν βίον ἐσχόλακεν ἑνὶ τούτῳ (Dem. Androt. § 4), is said to have spent special pains on his speech because he had to confront an orator who had learned his art in the school of Isocrates. (See further Isocr. Paneg. § 189 n.) More than 40 of his pupils are discussed by P. Sanneg (de Schola Isocratea, p. 60), who describes Lacritus as ‘demagogus magis et callidus versutusque vir quam literis deditus, tamen in arte rhetorica—si fides habenda Pseudo-Demostheni Or. in Lacr. 41—tradenda versatus. Ea enim oratio adeo disciplinae Isocrateae maledicit, ut e more Demosthenis fieri nequibat.’ Cf. note on Arg. l. 12. S.]
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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