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καθόδων: see note on § 28. παρ᾽ αὑτῶν καινὰς συντιθέασιν, ‘invent imaginary instances out of their own heads.’ ὅστις: an antecedent, such as τίνα or οὐδένα, must be supplied as the object of memuqolo/ghken; cp. § 26 ἐξ ὧν δ᾽ οἷόν τ̓ ἦν κτἑ. and note. ποιησάμενος . . . πεποίηνται: the ὁμωνυμία or play on the two meanings of ποιεῖν (1) to ‘do’, (2) to ‘compose poetry’, cannot be kept up in English. Sandys, on Paneg. 186, quotes Plato, Lysis 206 B σκόπει . . . ὅπως μὴ πᾶσι τούτοις ἔνοχον σαυτὸν ποιήσῃς διὰ τὴν ποίησιν, and Ben Jonson, Trans. of Horace, Ars Poetica 317 And I shall bid the learned maker (i. e. poet) looke On life and manners and make these his book. Similar plays on words are found with ἀρχή (N. C. 28, Paneg. 119), αἰτία (Ep. vi. 3), λόγος (Panath. 22), χάρις (Ep. ii. 6). Here ποιησάμενος means ‘having brought upon himself’, lit. ‘having made for himself’; πεποίηνται, ‘are represented’ (by the poets), cp. ποιῆσαι, § 9. εἰς τὴν αὑτοῦ: sc. γῆν. περιγεγενημένοι τῶν ἐχθρῶν, ‘getting the better of their enemies.’ Verbs of ruling, conquering (ἄρχειν, κρατεῖν, βασιλεύειν, &c.), and leading (ἡγεῖσθαι) take a genitive. περιγίγνεσθαι means either (1) ‘to be superior to’, with an object in the gen. (as here and § 44), or, absolutely, ‘to be victorious’ (as in § 55 and ad N. 25); or (2) ‘to live beyond’, so ‘survive’.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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