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1. ἐξαιτούμενος, i.e. by Alexander; see the next note and note on § 41.10. 2. εἰς Ἀμφικτύονας, before the Amphictyonic Council: cf. ἐν Ἀμφικτύοσιν, XIX. 181 (also without the article). When Alexander demanded the orators of Athens in 335 B.C., he doubtless intended to have them tried by the Amphictyonic Council: see Aesch. III. 161, καὶ τὸ πάντων δεινότατον, ὑμεῖς μὲν τοῦτον οὐ προὔδοτε, οὐδ᾽ εἰάσατε κριθῆναι ἐν τῷ τῶν Ἑλλήνων συνεδρίῳ. Notice the spirit of this sentence. What a trial this would have been for Demosthenes, Hyperides, and Lycurgus! Schaefer (III. 198) refers the passages of both Demosthenes and Aeschines to an attempt to bring Demosth. before the Amphictyonic Council in 330 B.C. on account of his complicity with the rebellion of Agis (see note on § 323.4). —δίκας ἐπαγόντων, bringing suits (against me): see § 249.3. 3. ἐπαγγελλομένων: cf. ἐπαγγελιῶν μέγεθος, § 298.2.—τοὺς καταράτους τούτους, the whole pack of sycophants mentioned in § 249.7-9. 4. προσβαλλόντων, setting them on (as θηρία); cf. προσβάλλεσθαι, to attack. 6. ὀρθὴν...εἱλόμην: cf. 321.3, τὴν...προαίρεσιν. For the predicate adjectives cf. § 298.7. 7. δυναστείας: cf. §§ 67.2, 3, 270.5. δυναστεία means lordly power; and when it refers to a ruler, it often means absolute power or despotism. But it can also mean (as here), in a good sense, the lordly power which Athens once exercised over her dependent states, and which she always aspired to exercise. 8. θεραπεύειν, αὔξειν, εἶναι explain ὀρθὴν...ὁδόν (6). 9. μετὰ τούτων εἶναι, to be faithful to these (τὰς τιμὰς...τὰς τῆς πατρίδος), lit. to be on their side: see Ar. Ach. 661, τὸ γὰρ εὖ μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ καὶ τὸ δίκαιον ξύμμαχον ἔσται.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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