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§ 23. The very same charges he before brought against Evergus, and obtained a verdict. That I was absent when the plaintiff quarrelled with him, I have already proved, and the fact is clear from the charge itself; for he does not say that I did it, only that I ordered a slave to do it. But how could even that be, when I could not possibly have foretold what would happen when I left Athens? αἱ πρὸς ἀλλήλους viz. Pantaenetus and Evergus. ὑπογράψας ‘After premising.’ Kennedy. Rather, perhaps, ‘having made it a minor, or inferential charge.’ Liddell and Scott explain it here ‘indorsing it with the title of plot against him and his effects.’ προστάξαι and προσέταξα in the text correspond to κελεύσας in the plaint § 22.] ᾔδειν The first person of the later Attic. The older Greeks appear to have declined it ᾔδη, ᾔδησθα, ᾔδειν. See Cobet, Nov. Lect. p. 214. Photius: ἤδη (ᾔδη）: ἀντὶ τοῦ ᾔδειν. The context seems to show that ᾔδειν is the first person in Ar. Vesp. 635. Cf. Or. 34 § 38 παρῄει n.
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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