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2. ἐστι πρὸς ἡδονὴν, makes for pleasure (ἐστὶν ἡδύ, Schol.): cf. Aeschyl. Pr. 494, ἂν εἴη δαίμοσιν πρὸς ἡδονήν.—ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν modifies πᾶσιν. Aeschines (III. 241) had warned the court against the self-glorification of Demosthenes. 5. ἀπολύσασθαι: see § 50.6. 6. καὶ πεποίηκα καὶ πεπολίτευ- μαι: a familiar form of rhetorical amplification (opposed to modern ideas of style), for which ordinary speech would use πεπολίτευμαι alone. Other instances are βεβούληται καὶ προῄρηται (§ 2.6), πεπραγμένων καὶ πεπολιτευμένων and κατεψεύδου καὶ διέβαλλες (§ 11.3-7), ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει (§ 13.6), διέβαλλε καὶ διεξῄει (§ 14.2), ἐδίδαξας καὶ διεξῆλθες (§ 22.10), πολεμεῖν καὶ διαφέρεσθαι (§ 31.4). In these cases one verb is generic and the other specific; but sometimes two verbs of nearly or quite the same meaning are used together for a similar rhetorical effect, as πράττειν καὶ ποιεῖν (§ 62.4), ζώντων καὶ ὄντων (§ 72.3). 7. βαδίζω, proceed, more formal than come or go. 8. ὡς μετριώτατα: cf. the full form ὡς ἂν δύνωμαι μετριώτατα, § 256.9. 9. ὅ τι...ἀναγκάζῃ, whatever the case itself may require of me (lit. compel me): with ἀναγκάζω without an infin. cf. Quint. XI. I, 22, qui hoc se coegisset. 10. δίκαιος ἔχειν: the common personal construction (M.T. 762). The apodosis is future in sense, after the future ὅ τι ἂν ἀναγκάζῃ. 11. τοιοῦτον ἀγῶν̓, a suit like this, i.e. in which Ctesiphon is indicted and Demosthenes accused: cf. §§ 12—16.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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