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2. ἐν οἷς ψεύδεται: cf. § 19.3. The argument of 2—6 is that the negotiations for peace show that Athens could not have been expecting such envoys at this time. 5. Εὐρυβάτου πρᾶγμα: Eurybatus was a proverbial scoundrel, said to have been an Ephesian who was hired by Croesus to raise an army and gave the money to Cyrus.—πόλεως ἔργον, an act fit for a state. 7. οὐκ ἔστι...ἔστι: see the same repetition before the oath in § 208.1. —τί καὶ μετεπέμπεσθ᾽ ἄν; with what possible object (καὶ) would you have been sending? 9. ὑπῆρχεν ἅπασιν, i.e. peace was open to them all: see note on § 1.3. 11. τῆς ἐξ ἀρχῆς εἰρήνης, i.e. the earlier stages of the peace.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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