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§§ 3, 4. Statement of the case. I lent Artemon, in accordance with the laws of the Athenian mart, a sum of money for trading to the Euxine and back. As he died before repaying me, I have brought the claim against his brother Lacritus as the same laws allow me to do, on the ground that he is his brother's heir and is liable for his debts. οὗτοι μὲν οὖν τοιοῦτοί είσιν Or. 43 (Macart.) § 68, Or. 48 (Olymp.) § 56. These parallels are from speeches attributed by Blass to the same author as the present speech, Att. Ber. III i 505{1}, 566{2}. (Cf. Uhle, i 113.) Similar instances of inartistic transition are found below in §§ 5, 24, 35, 52. S.] Λακρίτῳ τουτῳὶ ‘Lacritus, who is here in court.’ The only passage in this speech in which the MSS have οὗτος (instead of οὑτοσί) with the name of a person. οὑτοσί is thus used fifteen times, e.g. §§ 5, 6, 7, 8; Uhle, i p. 82. When the opponent is named, οὑτοσί is the proper pronoun, and it is usually placed after the name. When he is not named, the proper pronoun is οὗτος (cf. § 6), οὑτοσί (by itself), ‘this man here,’ being reserved for the speaker's client, who is near the speaker, whereas the opponent is further off (cf. Blass in Rhein. Mus. XLIV 1). 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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