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καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο So τεκμήριον δὲ is often used absolutely, i.e. without any verb. Mr Mayor refers to Holmes' note on De Coron. p. 268, § 122, where the same formula occurs, and p. 43, l. 15, p. 442, l. 7, p. 568, l. 12, are compared, with ἐπεὶ κἀκεῖνο in p. 1097, l. 5, ἐνθυμητέον being mentally supplied. ἐπισκευάζειν the technical term for repairing a ship. (Lit. ‘to put fittings to it’), inf. § 43. See Thuc. I 29 ζεύξαντές τε τὰς παλαιὰς ὥστε πλωίμους εἶναι, καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἐπισκευάσαντες,’ i.e. ‘after putting new cross-bits to the old triremes, and repairing the rest.’ The former word is wrongly rendered by Arnold ‘undergirding,’ and the latter not less wrongly in Liddell and Scott ‘equipping,’ ‘fitting out.’
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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