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χωρίων ἰσχ ‘strong positions having been occupied (by the Athenians and their allies), so that the enemy (the Spartans) could not approach’. The reading παριέναι (pass the Isthmus) would give more point. Ἀγησιλάου δ᾽ εἰς τὴν Β Agesilaus, recalled from Asia Minor, entered Boeotia from the north, and won the battle of Coroneia against the allies (394 B.C.). ἀποχωρίσαι...βοηθ.] ‘to detach some companies as supports’ (of the allied forces in Boeotia). βοηθήσουσι can only mean, against Agesilaus: and ἕτερος κίνδυνος, ‘peril in a new quarter’, is opp. to peril at Corinth. ἀγαπητῶς...σες.] ‘barely saved’: i.e. so as only just to satisfy the desire of safety: cp. Plat. Lysis 218 C, ἔχων ἀγαπητῶς ὃ ἐθηρευόμην, ‘having only just secured my prey’. ἀκληρωτί ‘without ballot’ — waiving the chance of no being drawn.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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