William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

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3. σύνδικον...Δήλῳ: about 343 B.C. the Delians contested the ancient right of Athens to administer the temple of Apollo on their island. The case came before the Amphictyonic Council, probably in the spring of 343, when Demosth. was one of the Athenian delegates to Delphi (XIX. 65). The Assembly chose Aeschines as their counsel; but the Areopagus, to which the people had given authority to revise the election, rejected him and sent Hyperides in his place. This showed that the tide had turned against Macedon. Hyperides then delivered his eloquent λόγος Δηλιακός at Delphi, and gained the case for Athens. See Hist. § 43.

4. ἀπὸ...ἧσπερ (see G. 1025): cf. XXI. 155, ὅτε κατὰ ταύτην τὴν ἡλικίαν ἦν ἣν (for καθ᾽ ἣν) ἐγὼ νῦν.

5. ὡς προείλεσθε κἀκείνην, i.e when you had previously associated it (the Areopagus) with yourselves in the case, i.e. giving it the right to revise your choice (lit. when you had previously chosen it also, and given it power, etc.). καὶ in κἀκείνην, which seems awkward, must refer to the association of the two bodies in power: in H. Wolf's emendation, προσείλεσθε, προσ- would have the same force as καί.

7. λέγειν προσέταξε: i.e. as the σύνδικος of Athens.

8. ἀπὸ τοῦ βωμοῦ: the most solemn form of voting, here on a religious question. See XLIII. 14, λαβόντες τὴν ψῆφον καιομένων τῶν ἱερείων, ἀπὸ τοῦ βωμοῦ φέροντες τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ φρατρίου. Cf. Hdt. VIII. 123; Plut. Them. 17; Cic. pro Balbo v. 12.

9. ἠνέχθη: like φέρουσα (above). —τούτῳ: cf. ἐμοὶ τὴν ψῆφον ἤνεγκαν, Isae. XI. 18.