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ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὐκ εἰδέναι...ταῖς σαῖς ἐπιθυμίαις ‘I reply [to these questioners] that I do not know exactly how it is [i.e. whether the project occurred first to you or to me], since I had not conferred with you before [i.e. before I sent you my λόγος, the Φίλιππος], — but think that you had already made up your mind on the subject, and that I have merely been the advocate of your own impulses’. Disting. the pluperf. from the perf. of the direct discourse: Isocr. said to them, οὐκ οἶδα — οὐ συνεγεγενήμην — οἴομαι αὐτὸν ἐγνωκέναι (=ὅτι ἐγνώκει), ἐμὲ (or ἐγὼ) δὲ συνειρηκέναι (=ὅτι συνείρηκα). ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν τούτων ‘to hold to these same objects’: ἐπί with the genit. expressing the ground on which he is conceived as taking his stand: whereas ἐπὶ τούτοις would suggest rather a number of points or special conditions. ὡς...ἂν γενομένων ὡς expresses the view present to their minds: they think, οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο, κ.τ.λ. Goodwin § 113, note 10.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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