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τηλ. ἐπιδόσεις...λαμβάνειν ‘take such rapid steps in progress’, = τοσοῦτον ἐπιδιδόναι, — opp. to ἀναδιδόναι or ὑποδιδόναι, to fall back, fail. At Athens ἐπιδόσεις had the special meaning of ‘benevolences’ contributed by the citizens in the emergencies of the State. Hence the story in Athenaeus IV. 168 of Phocion's dissolute son: ‘Once, when subscriptions to the Treasury (ἐπιδόσεις) were being made, he came forward in the Ecclesia, and said, “I, too, advance” (ἐπιδίδωμι) — “in profligacy”, roared the House with one accord’. τοιούτοις ἤθεσιν ‘with such qualities’, a dat. of circumstance (= ἔχων τοιαῦτα ἤθη). — ὀλίγῳ πρότερον: in §§ 22 f., where it is said that Evag. was distinguished in youth by σωφροσύνη as well as ῥώμη and κάλλος, — in manhood, by ἀνδρία, σοφία, δικαιοσύνη. πολὺ λίαν ἀπολ = λίαν πολύ, so ὠμῶς ἄγαν, Xen. Vect. v. 6.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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