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These questions are argu- ments for the judgment just pronounced upon Aeschines. After the third question, the conjunctions are omitted in the speaker's vehemence. With the whole passage compare XIX. 282. 5. τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν, opposed to τῶν οἰκείων, is the so-called foreign policy of Athens, i.e. her policy with other Greek states: see note on § 59.2. Here τῶν ξενικῶν is added to include her relations to other than Greek states, both being opposed to τῶν οἰκείων, her domestic policy. 6. ποῖαι τριήρεις; sc. γεγόνασι τῇ πόλει. 7. τί...χρήσιμος εἶ; what in the world (τῶν ἁπάντων) ARE you good for? 8. τίς ἢ χρημάτων; what public financial help has ever come from you to either rich or poor (i.e. to anybody)? 9. πολιτικὴ καὶ κοινὴ is a rhetori- cal amplification, like the cases in the note to § 4.6: in XXV. 22, ἔρανος πολιτικὸς καὶ κοινὸς is a public contribution for the general good.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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