Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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<οὔτε πλούτῳ>] Markland's conj. to supply the lacuna, before οὔτε γένει, is better than οὔτε ἡλικίᾳ (Stephanus) or οὔτε οὐσίᾳ (Sauppe). ‘Though I am not in danger of exclusion [from the franchise] on the score either of wealth or of birth, but have in both respects the advantage of my opponents’. The proposed restriction of the franchise probably threatened to exclude all who could not satisfy some definition of a pure Attic descent (γένος), as well as those who did not possess a certain property qualification (πλοῦτος).

ἐκτήμεθα ‘we possessed’, from ἐκτήμην, plup. for ἐκεκτήμην, as in Andoc. De Pace § 37, Her. II. 108: v. l. ἐκτησάμεθα, ‘when we acquired’, i.e. ‘after we had acquired’.

οὐχ ὅπως <ἄτιμον> Ἀθ. τινὰ ποιήσομεν διενοούμεθα ‘We did not think of disfranchising any Athenian’. Note that the constr. differs from (though it is akin to) that in which οὐχ ὅπως...ἀλλά=‘not only not...but’: for this we should need ποιῆσαι. Cp. Lysias κατὰ Φίλωνος (or. XXXI.) § 17, οὗτος τοίνυν οὐχ ὅπως ὠφελήσει τὴν πόλιν ἐν τοιούτῳ καιρῷ καὶ τοιαύτῃ καταστάσει διενοήθη, ἀλλ᾽ ὅπως τι κερδανεῖ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑμετέρων συμφορῶν παρεσκευάσατο.

Εὐβοεῦσιν ‘we even proposed to confer on Euboeans the right of intermarriage with Athenians’: probably at some time subsequent to the revolt and reduction of the island in 445 B.C. ‘In Euboea two-thirds of the island gradually became the property of Attic citizens’ (Curt. Hist. Gr. II. 486), i.e. of κληροῦχοι. — ἐπιγαμία, one of the privileges of ἰσοπολιτεία, or admission to the citizenship of a foreign state: others were ἀτέλεια (exemp tion from the taxes on aliens) and ἔγκτησις, right of acquiring land.

ἀπολοῦμεν ‘ruin’ (by disfranchisement): so the mss.: Bekker ἀπελῶμεν, ‘eject from their rights’.