William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

2. οὐδὲ ὧν ἔτυχεν ἦν, he was not even of ordinary parents, i.e. not of any of whom he merely chanced to be. ὧν ἔτυχεν is nearly equivalent to the common τῶν τυχόντων, ordinary people (οἳ ἔτυχον), such as might chance to fall in one's way: cf. Isocr. X. 21, εἰ εἷς ἦν τῶν τυχόντων ἀλλὰ μὴ τῶν πολὺ διενεγκόντων. After such a statement we should naturally expect to hear that he was of higher than ordinary parentage; but here (παρὰ προσδοκίαν) we have ἀλλ᾽ οἷς ὁ δῆμος καταρᾶται added. In the religious ceremony before each meeting of the Senate and the Assembly, a curse (ἀρά) was invoked against certain classes of offensive people: see XXIII. 97, καταρᾶται καθ᾽ ἑκάστην ἐκκλησίαν ὁ κῆρυξ...εἴ τις ἐξαπατᾷ λέγων ἢ βουλὴν ἢ δῆμον ἢ τὴν ἡλιαίαν, with XIX. 70. Aeschines himself is elsewhere included among these “deceivers”: see § 282.6-8, καίτοι τίς...καταρᾶται δικαίως;

5. δύο συλλαβὰς προσθεὶς: on the contrary, Demosth. probably made Τρόμης (trembler) by cutting off two syllables from Ἀτρόμητος (dauntless).

7. Ἔμπουσαν, hobgoblin.

9. καὶ γίγνεσθαι: almost all editors omit these words, which have the best MS. authority and are especially appropriate to the description of Empusa. See Ar. Ran. 289— 293: Xan. δεινόν: παντοδαπὸν γοῦν γίγνεται: ποτὲ μέν γε βοῦς, νυνὶ δ᾽ ὀρεὺς, ποτὲ δ̓ αὖ γυνὴ ὡραιοτάτη τις. Dion. Ἔμπουσα τοίνυν ἐστί.