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συμπλάσας ‘Having concocted,’ ‘fabricated,’ ‘patched up,’ ‘put into shape.’ Aeschin. 3 § 77 τῶν θεῶν συμπλάσας ἑαυτῷ ἐνύπνιον κατεφεύσατο. The metaphor (as in the words feigning and fiction) is from the moulding of clay in the hands of the potter. Cf. § 33 πλάσμα. τὴν γνῶσιν ‘The award’ of the arbitrators. Or. 27 § 1 γοῖς οἰκείοις ἐπιτρέπειν and τοῖς ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνων γνωσθεῖσιν ἐμμένειν. Cf. § 17.—ἐν ἀκροπόλει. So supra τὸ ἱερὸν τῆσ᾽ Αθηνᾶς. Pollux, διήτων δ᾽ ἐν ἱεροῖς (VIII 126). Or. 59 § 46 (of two arbitrators) συνελθόντες ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, and Or. 54 § 26, τὸν λίθον, n. λαμβάνων ‘On the receipt of this money,’ viz. the 5000 drachmae.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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