J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

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Ἀπολλόδωρον ὄντα κ.τ.λ. aculeatum et amarum dictum. Reiske. It is not like Apollodorus, it is inconsistent with his true character, to be going out of his way to undertake public prosecutions where his own interests were but partially affected, to the neglect of private suits in which, as he says, he has a direct and an important concern. If A pollodorus had been really wronged by Phormion, he would have prosecuted him before. For the emphatic reference to the name, cf. Or. 30 § 20; 37 § 38; also Cicero, ad Atticum v 2, ‘...cum Hortensius veniret et infirmus et tam longe et Hortensius.’

μέρος ‘In part alone,’ as only one aggrieved person out of many. So τὸ μέρος in Herod. I 120, II 173, and μέρος τι in Thuc. IV 30, and Dem. 50 § 35. Cf. n. on 45 § 70 τὸ σαυτοῦ μέρος.

πάντων μάλιστ᾽ εἰς τὸ πρᾶγμα ‘Very much to the purpose,’ ‘anything but irrelevant,’ 57 § 7 εἰς αὑτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμα πάντα λέγειν. The depositions about to be produced on the general character of plaintiff and defendant, are liable to objection on the ground of their being beside the question. The speaker here meets that objection beforehand.