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ἐπιδείξω—γνώσεσθε Or. 36 § 3. μεμαρτυρηκότα τὰ ψευδῆ ‘guilty of having given false evidence.’ Elsewhere in the speech τὰ ψευδῆ occurs 16 times; ψευδῆ only in § 41, where it has a predicative sense. In Or. 46 τὰ ψ. alone is used; in Or. 47, τὰ ψ. is found 8 times, ψ. in §§ 4, 11, 79 (see Biass, in Rheinisches Museum 1889, p. 20). τοσαύτη περιφάνεια κ.τ.λ. ‘So transparent is the case.’ ‘So plain and clear from every point of view.’ Or. 29 § 1 (also of false witness) ῥᾳδίως ἐξελέγξας διὰ τὴν περιφάνειαν τῶν πραγμάτων. Isaeus, Or. 7 § 28 τοσαύτη περιφάνεια τῆς ἐμῆς ποιήσεως ἐγένετο παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς...ἐπὶ τοσούτων μαρτύρων γέγονεν ἡ ποίησις. Cf. Hom. Od. I 426 περισκέπτῳ ἐνὶ χώρῳ, and ib. v 476 ἐν περιφαινομένῳ. ἐξ ὧν...γνώσεσθε This being the syntax, ἀκούσαντες must be taken by itself, ‘when you have heard it.’ ἐκείνου sc. Φορμίωνος.
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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