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1. οἶδεν, know of.—ἀποψη- φισθέντ̓, rejected from the list of citizens. In 346—5 B.C. a general revision of the lists of citizens was ordered at Athens; and the members of each deme went through its own list (the γραμματεῖον ληξιαρχικόν), voting on each name which was questioned. This process was called διαψήφισις (διαψηφίζομαι), and the rejection of any person was called ἀποψήφισις (ἀποψηφίζομαι). Demosthenes wrote his oration against Eubulides (LVII.) for a client who had been thus rejected and had appealed (as every such person might) to a Heliastic court. Antiphon was probably rejected at the same διαψήφισις (see Dem. LVII. 2, πολλῶν ἐξεληλαμένων δικαίως ἐκ πάντων τῶν δήμων), and afterwards offered his services to Philip. 4. καταστήσαντος εἰς τὴν ἐκ- κλησίαν: it is hardly probable that Demosthenes brought Antiphon before the Assembly without some official authority. At the time of the passage of his trierarchic law (340 B.C.) he held the office of ἐπιστάτης τοῦ ναυτικοῦ (Aesch. III. 222). Antiphon was probably arrested by μήνυσις, denunciation to the people, the process by which those charged with mutilating the Hermae in 415 B.C. were dealt with. Except in the rare cases in which the Assembly itself undertook the trial (as in the μήνυσις against Phidias, Plut. Pericl. 31), the people either sent the accused to a Heliastic court for trial or discharged him. The appeals of men like Aeschines moved the Assembly to discharge Antiphon: but the Areopagus interposed, and ordered (through the Assembly) that Antiphon be tried before a court, which condemned him to the rack and to death. See Hist. § 43. 6. ἠτυχηκότας: referring to Anti- phon's “bad luck” (as Aesch. called it) in losing his citizenship. 7. ἄνευ ψηφίσματος, i.e. without a vote of the Assembly or Senate. An Athenian citizen, like an Englishman, looked upon his house as his castle. But in extraordinary cases officers of the state with proper authority could search private houses and arrest persons concealed therein. 8. ἀφεθῆναι: Antiphon was at first discharged by the Assembly without a trial.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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