Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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ἐπεὶ οὐδ᾽ ἂν οὗτος, κ.τ.λ. ‘since even the prosecutor would not be vexing me now, if I allowed him to plunder the boy's property and did not thwart him’: i.e. as on the former occasion the sons of Stratius refrained from litigation, so the son of Stratocles would refrain now, did not this pettifogger instigate him, out of spite, because I (as ἐπίτροπος of the boy) protect my ward's property from his designs.

οἱ...πράττοντες Cp. § 9, τῶν αὐτῇ συμπραττόντων, ‘her accomplices’, note.

τῷ Στρατίου παιδί ‘whose relationship (to Hagnias) was properly [δικαίως, as opp. to her allegation] only the same as that of the son of Stratius’. For τῷ Στρατίου παιδί we must read, either with Schömann, τῷ Στρατοκλέους παιδί, (the nephew of Theopompus,) which seems best: or with Baiter, τοῖς Στρατίου παισί. — The assertion made here is false: see stemma. Eubulides, the father of Phylomachè, was the first-cousin of Hagnias. Stratius, Stratocles and Theopompus were only his second-cousins. See on § 10, πρὸς πατρὸς ὢν ἀνεψιοῦ παῖς.

οἱ κύριοι τῆς Ἁ. μητρός ‘the legal representatives of the mother of Hagnias’: see or. v. § 10, note, p. 367.

ἦσαν οἷοί τε ‘were capable’=ἐτόλμησαν: cp. Dem. In Mid. § 85, οἷός τ᾽ ἦν πείθειν αὐτόν, ἣν κατεδεδιῃτήκει, ταύτην ἀποδεδιῃτημένην ἀποφαίνειν, ‘he was capable of pressing the arbitrator to return the award given against him as if it had been an award in his favour’. ἀντιδικεῖν οἷοι (Scheibe), without τε, would mean merely, ‘the kind of men likely to contend’, and is unsuitable here. See or. VIII. § 21, p. 192, κομίζειν οἷος ἦν, ‘I felt inclined to carry him away’.