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ταῖς ἀραῖς Solemn imprecations on those who violated the conditions of the will. ἐλαύνεις διώκεις συκοφαντεῖς ‘Harass, prosecute, calumniate.’ In the Paris MS διώκεις comes rather feebly after the stronger word συκοφαντεῖς. The order adopted in the text is to some extent confirmed by the Rhetorician Tiberius (περὶ σχημάτων, c. 31), who refers to this passage as an instance of a figure of speech described by another Rhetorician (Alexander, περὶ σχημάτων, c. 10) as ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ νοήματος ἐπιμονὴ μετὰ αὐξήσεως. His words are: ἐπιμονὴ δέ ἐστιν ὅταν τις πλείω ῥήματα ὀρθὰ ἀλλήλοις ἐπιβάλλη̣, ὡς ἐν τῷ ὑπὲρ Φορμίωνος πρὸς τὸν Ἀπολλόδωρον, ἄγεις, ἐλαύνεις, διώκεις, συκοφαντεῖς. δείνωσιν τὸ σχῆμα ἔχει. The insertion of ἄγεις in this quotation is probably due to a remmiscence of a similar passage in § 47 ἄγεις εἰς μέσον, δεικνυεις, ε<*>λέγχεις. οὐ παύσει κ τ.λ. ‘Do stop, and make up your mind to this truth, that being honourable pays a man better than being very wealthy.’ πολλῶν χρημάτων τὸ χρηστὸν λυς.] Honesty is the best policy. The collocation of the cognate words χρήματα and χρηστὸς may be only accidental. σοὶ γοῦν ‘In your case, at any rate.’ From this primary sense γοῦν often takes the secondary meaning ‘for instance.’
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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