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§ 10. Lampis sails while Phormion is left behind. But the ship, being over-freighted, is lost, with some of the crew, and Lampis is picked up in the boat. Evidence is given that Phormion was congratulated for not having any goods on board. ἀναχθεὶς Cf. note on Or. 53 (Nicostr.) § 3 ἀνῆγμαι. γεγεμισμένης κ.τ.λ. ‘The ship had already been overloaded when Lampis took on deck besides 1000 hides, which was the real cause of the wreck.’ Hides are very heavy; and the deckload would so alter the centre of gravity as to make the ship very unmanageable in a heavy sea. [For the βύρσαι of Bosporus, cf. Lacrit. § 34 (μαρτυρ.) δέρματα αἴγεια, and Strabo, p. 493 Τάναϊς κτίσμα τῶν τὸν Βόσπορον ἐχόντων Ἑλλήνων ... ἐμπόριον κοινὸν τῶν τε Ἀσιανῶν καὶ τῶν Εὐρωπαίων νομάδων καὶ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Βοσπόρου τὴν λίμνην (Sea of Azov) πλεόντων τῶν μὲν ἀνδράποδα ἀγόντων καὶ δέρματα . .τῶν δὲ ἐσθῆτα καὶ οἶνον...ἀντιφορτιζομένων. S.] λέμβῳ Hesychius has λήμβωνι: ἐν σκαφίδι, ἢ ἐν πλοιαρίῳ. παίδων ‘slaves,’ or ‘servants.’ See on § 8. Lampis himself was Δίωνος οἰκέτης, § 5. τριάκοντα is much more plausible than the manuscript reading τριακόσια (found with σώματα alone, except in two MSS which add ἐλεύθερα). By itself τριακόσια σώματα could only be explained on the supposition that it was a slave-ship, bringing Θρᾷκες or Σκύθαι to Athens (cf. Strabo, supr.). [In later Greek, the use of σώματα for ‘slaves’ became common, e.g. Revelation xviii 13; Atticists like Pollux (iii 78) protested against this usage, σώματα ἁπλῶς οὐκ ἃν εἴποις ἀλλὰ δοῦλα σώματα. Cf. Dem. Lept. § 77 αἰχμάλωτα σώματα. In Plat. Leg. p. 908 A, σώματα is used of any kind of men, slaves or free, indiscriminately. S.] χωρὶς τῶν ἄλλων ‘besides his cargo.’ πένθους ‘mourning,’ the regular meaning of this word συνέβαινε—λόγος i.e. ‘not only so, but we happen to have the same account, and that in the same terms, not only from others but also from Phormion himself.’ συνέβαινε implies sur prise that Phormion's own language should agree on this point with the evidence of others. F. H. Baynes.]
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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