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1. ἆρ᾽ οὖν οὐδὲ σύ; can the same be said also of you? i.e. οὐδὲν ...πεποίησαι. 2. πρεσβευτὴς πρὸς Φίλιππον: Aeschines (III. 227) says of this, τῆς μάχης ἐπιγενομένης...ὑπὲρ τῆς σωτηρίας τῆς πόλεως ἐπρεσβεύομεν. Aeschines, Demades (from whom the peace was named, § 285.6), and probably Phocion, went to Philip to negotiate a peace after Chaeronea. See Hist. § 68. 5. ταύτην τὴν χρείαν: this, taken with τὸν ἔμπροσθε χρόνον, refers to earlier personal intercourse with Philip. Aeschines is now less anxious to repudiate this charge, in the day of Alexander's great success in Asia: see III. 66, ὁ γὰρ μισαλέξανδρος νυνὶ φάσκων εἶναι καὶ τότε μισοφίλιππος Δημοσθένης, ὁ τὴν ξενίαν ἐμοὶ προφέρων τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου, and cf. §§ 51, 52 (above). 6. ὁ μὴ λέγων=ὃς μὴ λέγει. 7. καταρᾶται: a most compre- hensive curse (ἀρά) was a part of the religious ceremony at the opening of each meeting of the Senate and Assembly. See XXIII. 97: διόπερ καταρᾶται καθ᾽ ἑκάστην ἐκκλησίαν ὁ κῆρυξ...εἴ τις ἐξαπατᾷ λέγων ἢ βουλὴν ἢ δῆμον ἢ τὴν ἡλιαίαν. Aeschines, as ὑπογραμματεύων ὑμῖν καὶ ὑπηρετῶν τῇ βουλῇ, had the duty of dictating this curse to the herald. See Dinarch. I. 47 (of Demosth.), κατάρατος δὲ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην ἐκκλησίαν γινόμενος, ἐξεληλεγμένος δῶρα κατὰ τῆς πόλεως εἰληφὼς, ἐξηπατηκὼς δὲ καὶ τὸν δῆμον καὶ τὴν βουλὴν παρὰ τὴν ἀρὰν, καὶ ἕτερα μὲν λέγων ἕτερα δὲ φρονῶν, which shows that ὁ μὴ λέγων ἃ φρονεῖ (6) was included in the same curse. See note on § 130.2. 10. οὗτος: cf. ἐφάνην οὗτος ἐγώ, § 173.1.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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