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χλανίδα ‘A mantle,’ a light upper garment of fine wool. Aeschin. Timarch. § 131, τὰ κομψὰ ταῦτα χλανίσκια......καὶ τοὺς μαλακοὺς χιτωνίσκους. Dem. Or. 21 § 133 (of Midias) χλανίδας καὶ κυμβία καὶ κάδους ἔχων. Pollux VII 48: χλανὶς δὲ ἱμάτιον λεπτόν. Hermann, Privatalt. § 21, p. 177 ed. Blümner. λέλυσαι ‘Redeemed’ from her owner. Herod. II 135 (of Rhodôpis), ἀπικομένη κατ᾽ ἐργασίαν ἐλύθη χρημάτων μεγάλων ὑπ᾽ άνδρὸς Μυτιληναίου. Ar. Vesp. 1353 ἐγώ σε...λυσάμενος ἕξω παλλακήν. Dem. Or. 48 § 53 ἑταίραν λυσάμενος ἔνδον ἔχει. Demosthenes is particularly fond of using perfect passives in the medial sense. P.] ἐκδέδωκας Given away in marriage. Or. 59, κατὰ Νεαίρας, § 73 (ἡ ἄνθρωπος) ἐξεδόθη τῷ Διονύσῳ γυνή, and Or. 27 § 69 θυγατέρας παρὰ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἐκδόντας. καὶ ταῦτα γυναῖκ᾽ ἔχων . ..] ‘And that too, when you have a wife.’ In his speech πρὸς Πολυκλέα, Apollodorus, contrary to what might be expected from the present passage, speaks in affectionate terms of his wife. Or. 50 § 61 ἡ γυνὴ ἣν ἐγὼ περὶ πλείστου ποιοῦμαι ἀσθενῶς διέκειτο πολὺν χρόνον. παῖδας ἀκολούθους Or. 21 (Midias) § 158 τρεῖς ἀκολούθους ἢ τέτταρας αὐτὸς ἄγων διὰ τῆς ἀγορᾶς σοβεῖ. Xen. Mem. I. 7 § 2, “σκεύη τε καλὰ κέκτηνται καὶ ἀκολούθους πολλους περιάγονται” . (Becker, Charicles III 19, ed. Goll, = p. 362 of Eng. ed.; Hermann-Blumner, Privatalt. p. 85, and Wyse on Isaeus 5 § 11.) περιάγει Cobet, after quoting the above passage of Xenophon (to alter σκεύη καλὰ into σκευὴν καλήν), takes the hint suggested by the last word περιάγονται, to propose the middle for the active in the present passage. ‘Reponendum est necessario περιάγει. Discrimen inter περιάγω et περιάγομαι tam perspicuum est quam perpetuum. Si quem circumductamus spectaturum aliquid, aut omnino si cui damus operam ut circumiens inspiciat aliquid aut agat, eum περιάγειν dicimur; sin autem quis quaqua incedit secum trahit aliquem, cuius opera officioque utatur, eum περιάγεσθαι dicitur, ut herus pedissequos, aut tyrannus satellites.’ (Novae lectiones, p. 652.)
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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