William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

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1. τούτων ἦν ἐξέτασις: ἐξέτασις is again a military term, as in § 320.10, where it means a mustering or review of hirelings etc., in which they were called forth to show themselves. Here, with a genitive denoting public services, it means likewise calling out and arraying such services to a man's credit. (See note on § 173.5.)

2. ἔδωκεν...ἀποδείξεις, i.e. the past gave many opportunities for showing such services, as it were arraying them for a review.

3. ἐν οἷς, in which class (the καλοί τε κἀγαθοί), as if ἀνδράσι had preceded.—οὐδαμοῦ: cf. § 320.5.

5. οὐχ ὁποστοσοῦν (cf. ὁστισοῦν), not in any rank whatsoever. Dissen thinks this alludes to a Delphic oracle given to the Megarians, quoted in the Scholia to Theoc. XIV. 48, 49, of which the last two verses are:

ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ὦ Μεγαρεῖς οὔτε τρίτοι οὔτε τέταρτοι

οὔτε δυωδέκατοι, οὔτ᾽ ἐν λόγῳ οὔτ̓ ἐν ἀριθμῷ.

6. οὔκουν ἐπί γ᾽ οἷς, at all events, not in matters in which, etc.