J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

θεῖον his (maternal) uncle, not patruum. Reiske suggests that this Nicias may be identified with the person of that name in Or. 36 § 17 married to the sister of Apollodorus' wife. But the relationships that would thus result are rather complex (cf. supra §§ 54—56), and it seems simpler to suppose that there were two persons of that name in the same family.

ἀοίκητον ‘a homeless outcast.’ The word is rare in this meaning, being generally used of an uninhabitable country (‘ἀοίκητος καὶ ἔρημος Hdt. II 34, cf. v 10. So in Plat. Legg.778 B, etc.’ L. and S.). Unless we accept it in the sense of ‘houseless,’ it would be necessary either (as Reiske says) to alter παῖδα into οἶκον or to read ἄοικον (as G. H. Schaefer suspects). The latter word is found in this sense in Plato Symp. 203 D and elsewhere. In Lucian however (p. 727), the word ἀοί- κητος is used as in the present passage: Gallus § 17 περιέμενον ἀοίκητος ἑστώς, ἄχρι δὴ ὁ Μνήσαρχος ἐξειργάζετό μοι τὸν οἶκον. (Ἀλεκτρύων loquitur.）

τὸ σαυτοῦ μέρος ‘quod ad te attinet.’ Fals. Leg. § 82 οὕτω διέθηκας αὐτοὺς τὸ μέρος σύ, ib. 103; 35 § 50 and 43 § 78 τὸ τούτου μέρος. So also τὸ σὸν μέρος Soph. O. C. 1366

ὑπερήμερον εἰσέπραξεν ‘levied judgment on a defaulter.’ (Kennedy.) Dem. Or. 33 (Apat.) § 6. Or. 21 (Mid.) § 11 τῶν τοὺς ὑπερημέρους εἰσπραττόντων, and §§ 81, 89 συνέβη δὲ ὑπερημέρῳ γενομένῳ λαθεῖν αὐτῷ διὰ τὸ ἀδικηθῆναι. In Theophrastus the ‘Penurious man’ (ὁ μικρολόγος) is described as δεινὸς ὑπερημερίαν πρᾶξαι καὶ τόκον τόκου ἀπαιτῆσαι. Pollux: (speaking of debt) ὁ οὐκ ἐκτίσας κατὰ προθεσμίαν ὑπερήμερος. Harpocr. ὑπερήμεροι οἱ δίκην ὀφλόντες ὁποιανοῦν καὶ τὰ ἐπιτίμια τοῖς ἑλοῦσι μὴ ἀποδιδόντες ἐν ταῖς τακταῖς προθεσμίαις.

In the whole of this passage the speaker dexterously avails himself of the odium and unpopularity attending the trade of a money-lender at Athens. Cf. Or. 37 (Pant.) § 52 μισοῦσιν Ἀθηναῖοι τοὺς δανείσαντας. Thus, in the Epistles of Alciphron, borrowed doubtless in part from the later Attic Comedy, in a letter beginning μέγα κακόν εἰσιν οἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν τοκογλύφοι. the money-lender is described as πρεσβύτην, ὀφθῆναι ῥικνόν, συνεσπακότα τὰς ὀφρῦς (I 26), cf. ib. III 3 § 2 ὁ Χρέμης ὁ κατεσκληκὼς, ὁ κατεσπακὼς τὰς ὀφρῦς, ὁ ταυρηδὸν πάντας ὑποβλέπων. In the same letter we have another banker, of whom no harm is said, called by the conventional name Pasion, doubtless taken from our Pasion.

εἶθ᾽ ὅν κ τ.λ. 21 § 97; 23 § 174; 25 § 53; 39 § 12; 24 §§ 203, 205; 19 § 282. Cf. Midias § 97.