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τοῖς περὶ τοὺς λόγους: see note on § 8 διὰ λόγων. ἀποτόμως: with ἀναγκαῖον, ‘absolutely’ (from ἀπό, τέμνω), cp. the Latin praecise (from prae, caedo) and the English ‘sheer necessity’. πολιτικοῖς: πολιτικός is lit. ‘of’ or ‘belonging to a citizen’; cp. ad N. 21 τῶν οἴκων τῶν πολιτικῶν; so here of language ‘suitable to a citizen’, so ‘ordinary’, ‘current’, equivalent to τεταγμένος (§ 9). By an extension of meaning πολιτικός can also mean ‘having to do with politics’; cp. ad N. 51 τῶν πολιτικῶν (sc. λόγων), ‘political discussions,’ and § 46 πολιτικὸς ὤν, lit. ‘being a suitable person to govern’, so ‘an able administrator’. τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων κτἑ, ‘those ideas which concern the actual facts.’ ἐνθύμημα is here used in its literal sense; later, in Aristotelian logic, it has the meaning of ‘a syllogism drawn from probable premises’. μέτρων καὶ ῥυθμῶν: metre is the arrangement of syllables so as to form verses; rhythm, the proportion and harmony produced by this arrangement.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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