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§ 20. Evidence of the pilot and quartermaster that only 450 jars of wine were taken in Hyblesius' ship. [The depositions here and in §§ 23, 34 were drawn up with a view to a lawsuit against Apollodorus (§ 34 Ἀ. τοῦ φεύγοντος νυνὶ τὴν δίκην); and the author must originally have been asked to write a speech against A., with these depositions before him. On the suit being directed against Lacritus, instead of against A., the latter was put into a subordinate position throughout the speech (Thalheim, Rhein. Mus. XXXIX 309, quoted by Blass, III i 563{2}).] Ἀπολλόδωρον Sup. § 16, it was Artemon who was to sail with the goods. ἀγόμενον ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ ... κεράμια The Middle is used here, and in the next paragraph; the Active in § 23 ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμπορίᾳ, ἢν ἦγεν ἐν τῇ νηί. S.] διοπεύων As overlooker or super-cargo. A form of διοπτεύειν, seen also in ὀπιπτεύειν. Aeschylus has βασιλῆς δίοποι in Pers. 44 (Hesych. ἐπιμεληταί). And Hesych. has διοπεύειν: ἐπιμελεῖσθαι νεώς.—δίοπος: ἐπίσκοπος, ἄρχων. ναύαρχος, ἐπιστάτης, διόπτης. — διοπτεύειν: κατασκοπεῖν.—[Schol. διοπεύων: ὀπιπτεύων τὰ κατὰ τὴν ναῦν, οἷον δίοπός τις ὤν, ἤγουν κατασκοπῶν. Harpocrat. διοπτεύων (sic）: Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Λακρίτου. δίοπος λέγεται νεως ὀ διἐπων καὶ ἐποπτεύων τὰ κατὰ τὴν ναῦν. Bekker, Anecd. 237. Cf. Buchsenschutz, Besitz u. Erwerb, p. 459 n. S.] πρὸς τούσδ̓ ‘in presence of the following witnesses,’ § 34. Aeschin. de F. L., § 19 τὴν ἐκμαρτυρίαν ἀναγνωθι τὴν Ἀριστοδήμου, καὶ κάλει πρὸς οὓς ἐξεμαρτύρησεν. Isaeus 3 § 25 πρὸς τοὺς ἐπιτυχόντας δύο ἐκμαρτυρησάμενος τὴν μαρτυρίαν ταύτην, Meier and Schomann, p. 879 Lipsius. S.] ἐξεμαρτύρησεν ‘Put in a written affidavit on absence at the time,’ i.e. when the other depositions were drawn up. On this word there is a note on Aesch. Agam. 1167 (P.) [Or. 46 § 7]. Ἀρχιάδης, so spelt in Or. 44 § 2 f, and C. I. G. 552.] Ἱστιαιόθεν ‘from Histiaea’ (Oreus) in Euboea, of which island Nausicrates, the partner of Androcles, was a native, § 10. Κτησίου] Κτησικλέους in § 34. Ξυπεταιών Photius, Ξυπεταίωνες (sic), δῆμος τής Κεκροπίδος φυλῆς. Ξυπεταιή, ἀφ᾽ ἧς ὁ δημότης Ξυπεταιών. Hesych. Ξυπετέα: δῆμος τῆς Κ. φ. The proper form is Ξυπετῆ (Steph. Byzant.).—Χολλείδης, Ar. Ach. 406, of the deme Chollidae.
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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