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2. μυριάκις μυρίους: this means that 10,000 men had been crowned on 10,000 occasions (not 10,000 times 10,000 men). This was justified rhetorically by the great frequency of decrees conferring crowns to be proclaimed in the theatre: the number of these on record shows that any law which may have forbidden the proclamation of crowns in the theatre was a dead letter. 3. τὸ πολλάκις...πρότερον: in the note on § 83.5 (δευτέρου...γιγνομένου). I have given reasons for thinking that the crown voted on the motion of Aristonicus in 340 B.C., and proclaimed in the theatre, had been preceded by another, also proclaimed in the theatre, of which we have no other account than the allusion in § 83. These two, with the one voted on the motion of Demomeles and Hyperides in 338 B.C. (§§ 222, 223), if the latter was actually proclaimed, justify the use of πολλάκις, especially after μυριάκις μυρίους. 5. ὥστ᾽ οὐ δύνασαι: see M.T. 601 and 584. The meaning is are you so stupid that you are not able? while with ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι it would be are you stupid enough not to be able? 6. τὸν αὐτὸν ἔχει ζῆλον, i.e. the receiver of the crown feels the same pride: ζῆλος is emulation, pride in excelling, hence glorying (see §§ 217.3, 273.5). 7. εἵνεκα: this Ionic and poetic form is often found in the best MSS. of Demosthenes. 9. εἰς τὸ ποιεῖν εὖ: this motive is strongly urged in many decrees conferring crowns.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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