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§ 3. I only ask for a fair and attentive hearing in showing grounds for a bar to this action: for of all the audacious charges ever tried in an Athenian court this is about the worst. δεήσομαι κ.τ.λ. Or. 38 § 2 δεήσομαι δὲ καὶ δίκαια καὶ μέτρια ὑμῶν ἁπάντων, πρῶτον μὲν εὐνοϊκῶς ἀκοῦσαί μου λέγοντος κ.τ.λ. πολλῶν γὰρ κ.τ.λ. Isaeus, the traditional teacher of Demosthenes, has a similar sentence in Or. 8 § 5 πολλῶν δὲ δικῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει γενομένων, οὐδένες ἀναιδέστερον τούτων οὐδὲ καταφανέστερον ἀντιποιησάμενοι φανήσονται τῶν ἀλλοτρίων. Cf. Dem. in Aph. I § 7. S.] φανήσεσθαι] φανήσεται ὅτι οὐδεὶς κ.τ.λ.—δεδικασμένον, in the medial sense, ‘has had tried,’ ‘has brought into court.’ The construction of the sentence is rather artificial. More usual would be οἶμαι μηδένα ἂν φανῆναι, but οὐκ οἶμαι οὐδένα is meant.
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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