J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

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τοῖν ἀντιδίκοιν—μή ‘that both parties be compelled to answer one another's questions, but that neither be allowed to be a witness in his own cause.’ On ἐρώτησις see Aristot. Rhet. III 18 and for examples cf. Lysias Or. 12 §§ 24—26, Or. 22 § 5; Or. 13 §§ 30—33. Dem. de Cor. § 52, Plato Apol. p. 25, Isaeus Or. 11 § 4. ‘A favourite instrument of debate with speakers in the public assembly and law courts is the interrogation of the adversary. The object of this is to enforce an argument; or to take the adversary by surprise and extract from him an unguarded admission; or to place him in an awkward dilemma, by shaping your question in such a way, that he must either by avowing it admit something which his antagonist wishes to establish, or by refusing seem to give consent by his silence to that which the questioner wishes to insinuate; or to gain some similar advantage’ (Cope's Introduction to Ar. Rhet. p. 362).

μαρτυρεῖν δὲ μή Meier and Schomann, p. 800 Lips.

αὑτοῦ τούτου = κατ᾽ αὐτὸ τοῦτο above.

ὁ προβαλόμενος κατὰ ταὐτά The person who produced the false witness, προὐβάλετο or προὐστήσατο, was liable to what was called a δίκη κακοτεχνιῶν for conspiring to defeat the ends of justice. Or. 47 § 1 τὸν προβαλόμενον ὑπόδικον ἔχῃ τῶν κακοτεχνιῶν.