William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

2. τῶν εὐθυνῶν: this concerns only the question whether Demosthenes was a “responsible magistrate” when Ctesiphon proposed to crown him.— τὸ γὰρ...ὑμᾶς, i.e. the statement in Ctesiphon's decree that I did etc., subj. of δεδηλῶσθαι (4): with this reference to the words of the decree cf. 57.1.

5. τὰ μέγιστα refers especially to his important public services in the year before Chaeronea (339—338), the account of which comes in later with far greater effect.

6. παραλείπω, I leave aside (not necessarily I omit). This whole passage is full of rhetorical art. He has no intention whatever of omitting these acts; but he skilfully implies that his earlier acts, already related, are ample for the legal justification of Ctesiphon, so that he could afford to leave his greatest achievements unmentioned. He also diverts attention from the weakness of his argument on the εὔθυναι by placing it between two most effective political harangues. See Essay I. § 5.

7. ἐφεξῆς, in due order: cf. § 56.6, οὐδὲν ἑκὼν παραλείψω, where he simply states his general purpose of giving a full account of his public life.—αὐτοῦ τοῦ παρανόμου, the strict question of illegality, with which alone the γραφὴ παρανόμων is properly concerned.

9. ὁμοίως, all the same.—παῤ ὑμῶν...ὑπάρχειν μοι, that I may rely on a consciousness of them in each of your minds: cf. § 95.5 and note.