J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

It concludes with a clause stating that my father owes eleven talents to the bank. This was added in order that whatever sums were traced to Phormion might be made out to have been ‘paid’ in discharge of this debt, and not embezzled.—（You imagine perhaps that, as Phormion speaks bad Greek, he is merely a foreigner and a fool. To be sure, he is anything but a good Greek in hating those he ought to honour, but in villany and knavery he is far from a fool.）

The terms of the ‘lease’ shall now be read and examined.

(1) No one would have paid so large a rent, as that alleged, for the banking business.

(2) No one would have committed the rest of his property to a man under whose management the Bank got into debt.

(3) The stringency of the provision preventing Phormion from doing business as a banker on his own account is inconsistent with the singularly generous terms of the will and proves the latter to be a forgery.

φέρε δὴ δείξω ..δείξω 30 § 25 φέρε δὴ. .ἐπιδείξω...μάρτυρας δὲ τῶν μὲν ὑμῖν παρέξομαι, τῶν δ᾽ ἐπιδείξω μεγάλα τεκμήρια. φέρε δὴ may be followed either by the Aor. Subj. or by the Fut. Ind. δείξω here, and in 20 § 26, is apparently Future; ἐπιδείξω in 52 § 20, and ὑπομνήσω in 22 § 60, are ambiguous; εἴπω (19 §§ 169, 234), ἀναγνῶ (18 § 267), παράσχωμαι (59 §§ 55, 79) and ἐξετάσωμεν (20 § 62) are Aorists Subjunctive. On the other hand ἀναγνώσομαι (Andoc. 1 § 47) is clearly Future (Huettner).

τὴν μίσθωσιν κ.τ.λ. See Or. 36 §§ 4—6.—καὶ γὰρ ἐκ ταύτης, ‘for from this too,’ &c., 18 § 25; 21 § 10; 37 § 35; 54 §§ 24, 26.

ἐσκευωρημένης § 5.

πλάσμα Cf. πέπλακε in line 10 of Argument, and Or. 36 § 33. Hesychius has πλάσμα: σχηματισμός (‘pretence’). ψεῦσμα. ἢ κτίσμα.

ἕνδεκα τάλ.] The origin of this ‘debt’ is carefully explained in Or. 36 §§ 4—5 (see note on προσώφειλε p. 7), and in the present speech the plaintiff says nothing that materially shakes that explanation. [The construction is, ὀφείλων τούτῳ εἰς τὰς π., ‘owing Phormion eleven talents on the deposits, or ‘for the deposits’ which he had put out to interest. Kennedy translates, ‘upon the deposits to Phormion. See § 31 fin. P.]