F. A. Paley, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

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συντρήσασιν Properly, συντετραίνειν is to make a hole into another hole, i.e. to make two holes meet. So in Aescli. Cho. 451 δἰ ὤτων δὲ συντέτραινε μῦθον may refer to words entering the double aperture of both ears; and thus the emendation δἰ ὤτων δ᾽ ἔσω τέτραινε, however probable, can hardly be regarded as necessary. See also Herod. II 11 σχεδὸν ἀλλήλοισι συντετραίνοντας τοὺς μυχούς, used of two arms of the Red Sea that converge and join in one.

τῷ δὲ κ.τ.λ. ‘But a man who has lent money to Pantaenetus, and has had the utmost difficulty and trouble to get it back from him, is not to have the further infliction of being made defendant in a mining cause; most decidedly not.’ Kennedy. [The sense makes it clear that Πανταινέτῳ is the Dat. after τῷ δανείσαντι.]

γλίσχρως Lit. ‘with greediness on his part,’ i.e. wish to retain it if possible. The adjective properly means ‘sticky,’ κολλώδης, Hesych., hence ‘importunate,’ as in Ar. Ach. 452 νῦν δὴ γενοῦ γλίσχρος, προσαιτῶν, λιπαρῶν τ᾽ .

πρὸς φευκτέον Cf. note on § 49 πρὸς ἀτιμῶσαι.]

οὐδ᾽ ἐγγύς De Cor. § 12.