William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

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3. ἐν οὐ δέοντι (neut.), unseasonably, just when it should not: cf. ἀνηλώκαμεν εἰς οὐδὲν δέον, III. 28. —συμβεβηκυῖαν ἰδοῦσα, seeing that it had occurred (or. obl. M.T. 904).— ἐπεζήτησε, i.e. ordered a new (ἐπ-) investigation of the man's case. The Areopagus in these later times seems occasionally to have revived a part of its ancient power of directing the general welfare of the state.

4. συλλαβοῦσα shows that the Areopagus itself ordered Antiphon's arrest: Plutarch (Dem. 14) says that Demosth. arrested him and brought him before the Areopagus.

5. ὡς ὑμᾶς, i.e. before the court, which passed the sentence of death (7). But ἐπανήγαγεν implies that the Areopagus brought him back to some place, and this must be the Assembly, which had sent him to the court. See the Scholia: κυρίως εἶπε τὸ ἐπανήγα γεν, εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν τόπον αὖθις κατέστησεν αὐτὸν ἡ βουλὴ ἐξ οὗ σέσωσται πρότερον.—δίκην δοῦναι διαδὺς: all notice the intentional alliteration.

6. ἐξεπέπεμπτ̓: this slight change from ἐξεπέμπετ̓ gives a form symmetrical with ἐξήρπαστ̓: ἄν would generally be omitted here (M.T. 226).—σεμνολόγου: see note on § 35.8.

7. νῦν, as it was.—στρεβλώσαντες: torture (βάσανος) could not legally be inflicted on an Athenian citizen; but Antiphon was now disfranchised. In Ar. Ran. 628, Dionysus, disguised as a slave, claims exemption from examination under torture as an immortal God: ἀγορεύω τινὶ ἐμὲ μὴ βασανίζειν ἀθάνατον ὄντ̓.—ὡς ἔδει γε καὶ τοῦτον (sc. ἀποκτεῖναι) as you ought to have dealt with this man (Aesch.).