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ἐπεὶ γὰρ...ὁ δὲ κριτής] On this irregularity, ἐπεί with the apodosis ὁ δέ,—a case of Aristotelian carelessness, his attention having been diverted from ἐπεί to ὁ μὲν κατηγορῶν—see the parallel examples quoted on I 1. 11. ἂν οὕτως ἐλύθη of course cannot stand, though Spengel retains it in his recent text. It must be either ἂν οὕτωσι λυθῇ, which seems the simplest and most natural alteration; or, as Bekker, εἰ οὕτως ἐλύθη. On the dicast's oath, γνώμῃ τῇ ἀριστῇ, or more usually τῇ δικαιοτάτῃ, κρίνειν, see Introd. note 1, p. 273.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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