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§ 11. Accordingly, I went to Mnesicles and asked what it all meant, and who these pretended claimants to the mine were. But he only laughed, and said he would take care we should meet them. As for Pantaenetus, he would also see that justice was done by him. οἷς λέγω τούτοις The dative depends on the sense ‘being displeased by,’ and may therefore be regarded as causal. Cf. Mid. § 108 ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐνηνοχὼς χαλεπῶς ἐφ᾽ οἷς—ὑβρίσθην, ἔτι πολλῷ χαλεπώτερον τούτοις τοῖς μετὰ ταῦτα ἐνήνοχα, where however ἐπὶ may be supplied from the first clause. See Shilleto on Thuc. I 77 § 3. τὸν πρατῆρα κ.τ.λ. See § 5. (The τὸν, of course, belongs to γεγενημένον.) προὐξένησε ‘That he had introduced such a person to me.’ Kennedy. To be πρόξενος to a man is to act as his patron and guarantee, and therefore to bring him forward in some relation to others. The accusative depends on the sense, like συκοφαντεῖν τινα, συνευπορεῖν τι, inf. § 49. In Or. 53 § 13, προξενεῖν τινα is used as here. τούτους i.e. οὗτοι οἱ ἀμφισβητοῦντες, οὓς σὺ δέδοικας, βούλονται, ἔφη, συνελθεῖν ὑμῖν (πρὸς ὑμᾶς). Otherwise αὐτοὺς rather than τούτους would have been used.
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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