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2. μηδὲν εὐλαβηθέντα, without reserve. 3. κοινὸν ἀλιτήριον, a common curse and destroyer. An ἀλιτήριος is a man who has sinned against the Gods and is thereby under a curse, which curse he transmits to others with whom he has to do; also an avenging divinity: cf. Aen. II. 573, Troiae et patriae communis Erinnys (of Helen). See Andocides I. 130, 131. Ἀλάστωρ is similarly used in both senses: see § 296.5, XIX. 305; see also Aeschyl. Eum. 236, δέχου δὲ πρευμενῶς ἀλάστορα (one who has already been purified); Pers. 354, φανεὶς ἀλάστωρ ἢ κακὸς δαίμων ποθέν. Aeschines twice (III. 131, 157) calls Demosthenes τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἀλιτήριος (see Blass). 6. τῶν φύντων κακῶν (so Σ), of the harvest of woes: without κακῶν, which many omit, we should have the common saying about the harvest. Cic. Phil. II. 22. 55 perhaps supports κακῶν: ut igitur in seminibus est causa arborum et stirpium, sic huius luctuosissimi belli semen tu fuisti.— ὃν: object of both ἰδόντες and ἀπεστράφητε: the latter becomes transitive in the passive, like φοβέω, ἐκπλήσσω, etc. 8. πρὸ τῆς ἀληθείας: i.e. so as to conceal the truth from you.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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