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καὶ γὰρ κ.τ.λ. ‘For Mnesicles had also bought the property for Pantaenetus.’ For καὶ γὰρ see inf. 34. There were two reasons why Mnesicles was the legal vendor; first, he was the mortgagee, and secondly, he was the person in whose name the property had been bought for Pantaenetus. It appears from § 29, that it was by the express desire of Pantaenetus that it was sold by Mnesicles to Nicobulus and Evergus. τόκου ‘For the interest accruing on the money.’ The word γίγνεσθαι is used in conformity with the proper sense of τόκος, which gives rise to a joke in Ar. Thesm. 845 ἀξία γοῦν εἶ τόκου τεκοῦσα τοιοῦτον τόκον. Cf. Shakspeare's ‘breed of barren metal.’ For the genitive see on Or. 34 § 40. The dative also follows the usual construction γίγνεται υἱός τινι ἔκ τινος. λύσις ‘A power of redemption,’ i.e. a right to take back the mine within a certain time on payment of our loan in full. [Cf. C. I. A. II ii 1122 ὅρος ἐργαστηρίου καὶ ἀνδραπόδων πεπραμένων ἐπὶ λύσει Φείδωνι Αἰξωνεῖ Τ（άλαντον), ib. 1104, 1123, 1145. 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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