Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

ῥῖψαι τὴν ἀσπ ῥίπτειν, abicere, was stronger than ἀποβάλλειν, which, like iacturam facere, was capable of meaning simply ‘to lose’: hence ῥίψασπις is the term of reproach, one who flings away his shield.

εἴρητο Dobree, εἴρηται, which would be easier: but ἀποβεβληκέναι was the word actually used in the law, as appears from the epitome of this speech (κατὰ Θεομν. B § 5). Retaining εἴρητο, take it as depending on εἰ: ‘If some one were to say... and it had been prescribed by the law...’: the actual provision of the law being stated hypothetically, as one of the data of the imagined case.

ἐξήρκει ἄν σοι...μέλειν ‘You would be content to be set down as one who had thrown away his shield, saying merely that you did not care’. Dobree would omit ἐρριφέναι τὴν ἀσπίδα: wrongly, I think. The perf. is thoroughly Greek: ‘you would be content to have thrown away’, i.e. you would acquiesce in the position of one who was said to have done so. He is supposed to say, οὔ μοι μέλει. Cp. Her. VI. 129, οὐ φροντὶς Ἱπποκλείδῃ.