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1. ἔστι μοι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, i.e. I intend it for you.—ταυτὶ πάντα τὰ πολλὰ, all this long argument (so West.): τὰ πολλὰ may, however, be adverbial, for the most part, chiefly, the sense being all this I intend chiefly for you. 2. τοὺς περιεστηκότας, the spec- tators, of whom great crowds were present: see Aesch. III. 56, ἐναντίον... τῶν ἄλλων πολιτῶν ὅσοι δὴ ἔξωθεν περιεστᾶσι, καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὅσοις ἐπιμελὲς γέγονεν ἐπακούειν τῆσδε τῆς κρίσεως: ὁρῶ δὲ οὐκ ὀλίγους παρόντας, ἀλλ᾽ ὅσους οὐδεὶς πώποτε μέμνηται πρὸς ἀγῶνα δημόσιον παραγενομένους. 4. βραχὺς καὶ σαφὴς λόγος: this he now puts into a dilemma, εἰ μὲν ἦν σοὶ πρόδηλα and εἰ δὲ μὴ προῄδεις: ἐξήρκει, was enough for him; i.e. this would be a sufficient reply for him. ἐξήρκει sometimes has a force somewhat like that of δίκαιον ἦν, ἴσον ἦν, καλὸν ἦν, etc., when they are classed with ἔδει, χρῆν, etc. (M.T. 416). See Cic. Lael. XXVI. 96, satis erat respondere Magnas: Ingentes inquit, and Lane's Latin Grammar, 1496, 1497. Cf. θαυμαστὸν ἦν, § 248.7. 8. ταῦτα: the charge of ignorance which you bring against me.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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