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1. οὐκ ἦν...εἰ μὴ ποιήσειε: see M.T. 696 and the examples. The protasis depends on an apodosis implied in οὐκ ἦν...Φιλίππῳ, the real meaning being Philip felt that he could not end or escape the war unless he should make the Th. hostile to our city. This involves indirect discourse; and we might therefore have had ἐὰν μὴ ποιήσῃ here for εἰ μὴ ποιήσειε. See Thuc. VII. 59, τἄλλα, ἢν ἔτι ναυμαχεῖν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τολμήσωσι, παρεσκευάζοντο, where the condition really depends on the idea to be ready implied in παρεσκευάζοντο, and εἰ... τολμήσαιεν might have been used. Cf. Thuc. VI. 100, πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, εἰ ἐπιβοηθοῖεν, ἐχώρουν, they marched towards the city, in case they (the citizens) should rush out, i.e. to meet them in that case; the thought being ἢν ἐπιβοηθῶσιν. 4. ἀθλίως...πολεμούντων: Chares and Phocion were the Athenian commanders at the beginning of the war, while Philip was besieging Byzantium. Chares was much censured for inefficiency, but for Phocion's general ship there is only praise. These operations are probably those of the later part of 340—339, when Philip was in Scythia (Hist. § 56). 5. ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ τοῦ πολέμου, i.e. by the mere state of war. 6. λῃστῶν: a state of war natur- ally encouraged pirates and plunderers. 7. τῶν ἐκ τῆς χώρας γιγνομένων: see §§ 44.4, 213.12. 8. ὧν ἐδεῖτ̓: sc. οὐδέν.—αὐτῷ, with εἰσήγετο.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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