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4. τὸ ἔχειν...περιποιεῖ, secures for you your opportunities for being bribed (the wherewithal to be bribed). 6. ἐστε σῷοι καὶ ἔμμισθοι, i.e. you survive to be venal. 7. διά...αὐτοὺς, if you were left to yourselves (M.T. 472). The orator surprises his audience by this original reason why the Athenian traitors have been saved from the fate of traitors in other states, i.e. the honest citizens thwart their schemes and thus save them from the ruin of success. This brilliant attack is followed up sharply in what follows.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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