F. A. Paley, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes

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κατεργασάμενος ‘By reducing (for his own use) the silver-ore which my servants had dug, and keeping the bullion smelted from it.’ Hesychius confounds ἀργυρῖτις with ἀργυρίτης when he explains the latter by ἡ ἐκ τῶν ἀναργύρων μετάλλων γῆ. Whether it was sand, or soft earth, or (as Kennedy thinks) stony ore, seems uncertain. The word is used rather often in Xenophon's treatise on Revenues. See Boeckh, Publ. Econ. p. 637, 624, &c. Lewis (2).

ἠργάσαντο The evidence of inscriptions shows that, in classical times, the Aor. and Impf. of ἐργάζομαι were spelt with ἠ, and the Perf. with εἰ (Meisterhans, Gr. d. Att. Inschr. p. 135{2}). ἠργάζετο is found in two inscriptions relating to the mines of Attica towards the end of the fourth century B.C. (C.I.A. ii 780, 782). S.]

πάλιν ‘I ask again, how is it possible that these things should have been done by me, and also (or, any more than) those for which you got a verdict against Evergus?’ The sense seems to be, ‘how can I be guilty of acts of which Evergus was found guilty, when he was present while I was absent?’

τῷ μὴ παρόντι may be rendered ‘if I was not present.’ See Or. 34 § 26, and Shilleto, not. crit. on Thucyd. i 118 § 2. So sup. 25, τὸν μὴ παρόντα, τῷ μὴ παρόντι, where the person is definite, but the event or the circumstances are regarded as contingent,—‘how could I, when I was not there?’ &c. With regard to καὶ, Mr Mayor remarks (p. 246), ‘it seems to join the two reasons why the speaker was not responsible for the proceedings complained of: 1st, he was absent; 2ndly, Evergus had been already found guilty.’