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2. ὑπὲρ...δοκιμάζομαι: δοκιμασία is any investigation to test the fitness or competency of a person for anything, as for office (its ordinary meaning) or for citizenship; and δοκιμάζομαι here implies that this trial is to test his fitness for the crown. 3. τὸ...ἀδικεῖν ἀνωμολόγημαι: cf. § 86.2, ἀνωμολόγημαι τὰ ἄριστα πράττειν. The articular infinitive in or. obl. is rare (M.T. 794, 743). 4. σοὶ ὑπάρχει, it is in store for you.—κινδυνεύεις corresponds to δοκιμάζομαι (2): the meaning is, the question with you is. 5. τοῦτο ποιεῖν, i.e. to go on being a συκοφάντης.—πεπαῦσθαι, to be stopped (once for all), i.e. by ἀτιμία (cf. § 82.9). 6. τὸ πέμπτον μέρος: Dindorf omits πέμπτον because it is omitted in §§ 103, 222, 250, whereas it appears in other speeches frequently (e.g. XXII. 3). What modern orator or writer would submit to such rules of consistency as critics impose on the ancients? 7. οὐχ ὁρᾷς; cf. 232.5, 281.6.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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