F. A. Paley, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

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τέχνην πεποιημένοι ‘Make a trade of it.’ Kennedy. From Ar. Eq. 63, where the same phrase occurs, it would seem to mean ‘a crafty or cunning trade.’—μήτε συγγνώμης, ‘who care neither for humanity nor for anything else but the lust of gain.’ Kennedy. The reading seems in some way faulty here; either ἐπιμελεῖς εἰσὶν or φροντίζουσιν would represent the required sense. [The reading of the MSS is supported by the quotation of Priscian II 359, 22 Hertz: ‘Attici συγγνώμης οὐκ ἔστιν οὖτος, id est nemini dat veniam. μισεῖσθαι—πλείονος. Sallustius in Ingurthino: homines multarum imaginum ac nullius stipendii (85, 10).’ S.]

The sense of μήτε (as different from οὔτε) would, as usual, be given by the Latin nihil curent instead of curant.—δεδανεῖσθαι, i.e. δανείσασθαι.

άποστερῶ As Shilleto remarks on Thuc. I 69, and as indeed is well known, this is not ‘to deprive,’ but ‘to keep back from another what is due.’ Our monosyllable ‘to rob’ renders it fairly well.