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δυοῖν ταλάντοιν viz. for damages, § 32.—καθάπαξ, § 31. The sum mentioned in § 31 is 3 talents and 26 minae. Here he uses a round sum; see Or. 34 §§ 25, 41. εἰς ταῦτα κ.τ.λ. ‘Upon this property you have sustained damage, as it appears, to the amount of four talents.’ Two talents had already been got out of Evergus, and the plaintiff is trying to get two more out of Nicobulus. παραχωρήσειε ‘Give up.’ So in Mid. § 28 τῇ πόλει παραχωρῶ τῆς τιμωρίας. This seems little better than a quibble; according to the plaintiff, violence was used by Antigenes in taking the money (§ 22); but perhaps he refers to the occupation of the mine under protest, § 25. ἢ τίς ἂν κ.τ.λ. ‘Who would say that, when Evergus has already been condemned for them, my slave was also guilty of the same acts?’
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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