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§§ 40, 41. In default of the express command of the law, you are bound (i.e. by the terms of your oath) to vote as you think most just; so that even on this ground you ought to vote for me. No father ever does or ever will give the same name to two sons, so that what you think is right for your own children you ought to think is right also for me. ὧν ἂν μὴ ὦσι νόμοι The oath of the heliasts in Or. 24 Timocr. § 149 commences with ψηφιοῦμαι κατὰ τοὺς νόμους. [Pollux VIII 122 ὁ δ᾽ ὅρκος ἦν τῶν δικαστῶν περὶ μὲν ὧν νόμοι εἰσί, ψγφιεῖσθαι κατὰ τοὺς νόμους, περὶ δὲ ὧν μὴ εἰσί, γνώμῃ τῇ δικαιοτάτῃ. Meier and Schomann, p. 152—5 Lipsius. For γνώμῃ τῇ δικαιοτάτῃ, cf. 20 § 118, 23 § 96, 57 § 63. S.] πρὸς ἐμοῦ ‘On my side,’ ‘in my favour’ [34 § 49, 37 § 52]. τἐθειται In the usual medial sense. Cf. Argument l. 20 n.— ᾧ μήπω κ.τ.λ. ‘cui nondum sint liberi.’
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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