Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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εἴπερ...ἀποθανών ‘As to the boy, if it has been proved to you that he was not struck while he stood still (ἑστώς), it is still more manifest that, since he came of his own accord into the course of the javelin, he was killed through his own error’. μή and not οὐ before βληθείς because it depends on εἴπερ: but οὐ would have been admissible here, owing to the emphasis on the negative fact. Cp. on De Caed. Her. § 14. — ὑπελθὼν...δηλοῦται...ἀποθανών. Since, or because, he came,... it is clear that he died: =τὸ ὑπελθεῖν αὐτὸν δηλοῖ ὅτι...ἀπέθανε. So we might have, ἀμελήσας δῆλός ἐστιν ἁμαρτών, ‘it is clear that he erred by carelessness’. The argument is: ‘If he voluntarily left a safe place, he alone is answerable for the consequences’. In ἔτι σαφεστέρως the comparative is merely rhetorical: — It must be, if possible, more obvious still, etc. Note the alternative forms σαφεστέρως, σαφέστερον (§ 6): cp. Isocr. Panegyr. § 193.