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§§ 55, 56. The evidence just read has shown that I am not a hard or dishonest man, though it happens that I walk quickly and you walk gently. I am sorry I cause annoyance to others, but I am what nature made me, and no man can alter that. τῶν εὖ πεφυκότων ‘One of those favoured in these respects by nature.’ For a parallel to the whole of this passage, see Or. 45 § 77 quoted above, § 52 n. So strong was the Greek appreciation of τὸ καλὸν that they associated moral with merely physical qualities.—ἑαυτοῖς seems a necessary correction for ἐμαυτῷ, which would require τῶν λυς. to be a genitive of quality in the neuter.
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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