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1. μετὰ ταῦτα, i.e. after the first excitement, when Philip's party gained courage at Athens. 2. συστάντων: gen. absol. with the implied antecedent of οἷς. 3. γραφὰς: here in the most re- stricted sense of ordinary public suits, excluding εἰσαγγελία, εὔθυναι, etc. The chief form of γραφή here would be the γραφὴ παρανόμων (§ 250.5).— πάντα ταῦτ̓: emphatic apposition, all these, I say. 4. οὐ δἰ ἑαυτῶν, not in their own names: at first the leading philippizers kept in the background, and put forward such obscure men as those mentioned below. 7—9. ἀπόνοια, μανία: “the first is the deliberate desperation of a man with nothing to lose, the last the desperation of blind passion” (Simcox).—Σωσικλέους...Μελάντου: Sosicles and Melantus are otherwise unknown; for Diondas see § 222.6; Philocrates is not the one who gave his name to the peace of 346 B.C. (he disappears after he was condemned on the εἰσαγγελία brought by Hyperides, XIX. 116), but an Eleusinian (XXV. 44). The imitation of this passage by Cicero (Cat. III. 7) is familiar: hoc providebam animo, ...nec mihi P. Lentuli somnum, nec L. Cassii adipes, nec Cethegi furiosam temeritatem pertimescendam. 11. δἰ ὑμᾶς, i.e. through the courts. 13. ἀληθὲς, in accordance with truth.—ὑπὲρ...δικαστῶν, to the credit of judges, etc. 14. γνόντων τὰ εὔορκα, who (not only had sworn, but) gave judgment in accordance with their oaths.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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