J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

ἐλευθέρους τ᾽ ἀφεῖσαν Or. 29 §§ 25, 31 τὸν Μιλύαν ἐλεύθερον εἶναι ἀφεθέντα, 47 § 55 ἀφειμένη ἐλευθέρα ἀφείθη ἐλευθέρα, § 72 ἀφεῖτο...ἐλευθέρα. Xenon, Euphraeus and the other lessees appear (like Phormion) to have been slaves originally. The family show their gratitude for their services by giving them freedom (ὡς μεγάλ᾽ εὖ πεπονθότες). It is so translated by M. Dareste. G. H. Schaefer and C. R. Kennedy (perhaps less satisfactorily) understand the words: ‘set free from all further claims’: ‘gave them a complete discharge’: a sense which is at first sight partly supported by καὶ οὐκ ἐδικάζοντο below.

ὡς ἐτελεύτησεν The speaker insinuates that Apoll. purposely waited till his mother's death, as her familiarity with all the details of her late husband's property would have thwarted his plots a gainst Phormion. Her death is described by Apollodorus in Or. 50 § 60, ‘While I was abroad my mother lay ill and was at death's door, and therefore little able to help in retrieving my affairs. It was just six days after my return that, when she had seen me and spoken to me, she breathed her last, when she no longer had such control over her property as to be able to give me all that she desired’ The death took place in Feb. B.C. 360.

πρὸς αἷς She had left Phormion's children 2000 drachmas, but Apollodorus claims more than that sum also as his own. His avaricious and mean character is shown by his claim to a χιτωνίσκος, a chemise or ‘slave's frock,’ perhaps. A man who would make such demands was little likely to omit his present claims, if he had then believed in the justice of them. P.]

χιτωνίσκον Or. 21 § 216 θοἰμάτιον προέσθαι καὶ μικροῦ γυμνὸν ἐν τῷ χιτωνίσκῳ γενέσθαι.