Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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ταυτὶ δὴ πάντα...ἐξηῦρον ‘How, then, is one to place the truth of all these facts beyond dispute, in face of the charges which the claimants are making now? [νῦν, after so long an interval]. I sought, and I discovered, a way’. — αἰτίας, the imputations cast on the genuineness of the speaker's descent. For the rhetorical ἐρώτησις, cp. or. XI. § 11, p. 181, τῷ δὲ γνώσεσθε τοῦθ᾽ , ὅτι ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀγχιστεύειν, τοῖς δ᾽ ἐξ ἐκείνων γεγονόσιν οὐκ ἦν...; αὐτὸς ὁ νόμος δηλώσει.

ἀνάγκη τὴν ἐμὴν μητέρα, κ.τ.λ. ‘The question whether my mother was, or was not, the daughter of Ciron, — the fact that she lived, or did not live, in his house — the question whether he gave a marriage-feast for her once only, or twice — all this must be known to the male and female slaves of his household’. The difference of form made by the alternation of μή — οὐ — μή is roughly represented by the alternation of ‘question’ and ‘fact’ in such a version as the above. The only practical difference here is that the clause in which οὐ is used refers to that point which a member of the household could at once affirm or deny in the most positive manner, — viz., whether she had, or had not, been a resident member of the family. See on Antiph. De Caed. Her. § 14, ἢ μή...ἢ οὔ, p. 211. Cp. Dem. Adv. Lept. § 83, οὐχ ὁ νόμος κρίνεται, πότερόν ἐστιν ἐπιτήδειος ἢ οὔ, ἀλλ᾽ ὑμεῖς δοκιμάζεσθε, εἴτ᾽ ἐπιτήδειοι πάσχειν ἐστὲ εὖ τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον εἴτε μή.