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4. πρῶτον, to begin with: cf. XX. 54, ὁ λόγος πρῶτον αἰσχρός.— μετ-εῖχον: μετ- implies the sharing of the right which the preceding clause states. 5. προὐτίθεθ̓, offered (see § 273.3): cf. IV. 1, εἰ προὐτίθετο λέγειν. 6. ὅς᾿...περιγένοιντ̓ ἐμοῦ, i.e. as often as they got the better of me. The omitted antecedent of ὅς᾿ appears in ταῦθ̓ (8). 7. τύχοι (M.T. 532): sc. γενόμενον. 8. ταῦθ̓—βεβουλευμένοι, i.e. just so often had you taken counsel in the enemy's interest when you left the Assembly: ταῦθ̓ (cognate with βεβουλευμένοι) are the βουλεύματα in which περιγένοιντ᾽ ἐμοῦ, and these counsels you always took in the enemy's interest. Cf. Thuc. II. 44.15, ἴσον τι ἢ δίκαιον (sc. βούλευμα) βουλεύεσθαι.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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