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1. τὸ τοῦ Κεφάλου καλὸν may be exclamatory, there is the glory of Cephalus; cf. l. 6. But καλὸν is generally taken here as predicate to τὸ τοῦ Κεφάλου (sc. ἐστί). (See Aesch. III. 194.) This Cephalus (already mentioned in § 219.3) is not the father of Lysias, who opens the dialogue of Plato's Republic with Socrates and was ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ in the lifetime of Socrates; but a later statesman, who with Thrasybulus of Collytus was a leader of the Theban party in Athens, and highly respected. —τὸ...φεύγειν, the (glory of) never being under indictment. Aeschines (194), after mentioning the boast of Aristophon that he had been acquitted (ἀπέφυγεν) seventy-five times on the γραφὴ παρανόμων, compares this with the higher boast of Cephalus, that he had proposed more decrees than any other man, and yet had never once been indicted by this process. 5. πρός γε τοῦτον, so far as this man is concerned; i.e. Aeschines has done nothing to prevent me from making the boast of Cephalus. 7. ἐδίωξε γραφὴν, prosecuted an indictment, cognate accusative, as in ἐγράψατο γραφήν. The English translation obscures the construction. 8. μηδὲν εἶναι: see M.T. 685.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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