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1. τῶν τότε πραχθέντων, i.e. the transactions concerning the peace. This suggestion that he will drop the subject makes this sudden recurrence to the charge of venality all the more effective. 3. αἴτιος, i.e. of my speaking πλείω τῶν ἱκανῶν.—ὥσπερ, as it were (M.T. 867), with ἑωλοκρασίαν, not with κατασκεδάσας.—ἑωλοκρασίαν, a mixture of stale dregs, lit. a mixture of the refuse (esp. heel-taps) of last night's feast (ἕωλα, hesterna). This burst of indignation refers especially to the audacity of Aeschines (III. 60) in charging Demosthenes with the same coöperation with Philocrates in making the peace which he had once claimed for himself as a merit (I. 174). See § 17.6 (above). Demosthenes calls this treatment “deluging me with the stale refuse of his own villainy.” 4. [καὶ τῶν ἀδικημάτων] is in all MSS., but is omitted in many ancient quotations of the passage. 5. νεωτέρους: the youngest judges present might have been only fourteen years old in 346 B.C. 6. ἀπολύσασθαι, to clear myself of: see Thuc. VIII. 87, ἀπολύεσθαι πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὰς διαβολάς.—παρηνώχλησθε: addressed to the older judges (cf. ἐνοχλεῖ, § 4.3).
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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