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2. τολμήσαι (so Σ and L): the form in -ειε is far more common in Demosthenes and in other Attic prose.—ἐν Πέλλῃ τραφέντι: cf. Hegesippus [Dem. VII.] 7, πρὸς τὸν ἐκ Πέλλης ὁρμώμενον, with the same sarcasm. Pella was a small place until Philip enlarged and adorned it. See Strab. VII. fr. 23: τὴν Πέλλαν οὖσαν μικρὰν πρότερον Φίλιππος εἰς μῆκος ηὔξησε τραφεὶς ἐν αὐτῇ. 4. μεγαλοψυχίαν, lofty aspirations. Aristotle (Eth. IV. 3, 3) says of the μεγαλόψυχος, the great-souled, or highminded man, δοκεῖ εἶναι ὁ μεγάλων ἑαυτὸν ἀξιῶν ἄξιος ὤν. Cf. μικροψυχίας, § 279.6. 5. εἰς τὸν νοῦν ἐμβαλέσθαι: cf. our phrase take it into his head. 7. ἐν πᾶσι...θεωρήμασι, i.e. in all that you hear and see: θεώρημα is very rare for θέαμα. 8. ὑπομνήμαθ᾽ ὁρῶσι, beholding memorials; ὁρῶσι by a slight zeugma including λόγοις: cf. Aeschyl. Prom. 21 οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτε του μορφὴν βροτῶν ὄψει. 9. κακίαν: see note on § 20.4.— ὑπάρξαι, like ἐγγενέσθαι (4), depends on προσῆκεν.—αὐτεπαγγέλτους ἐθελοντὰς, as self-offered volunteers: cf. § 99.10. 10. οὐδ᾽ ἂν εἷς: see M.T. 219: οὐδ᾽ εἷς (separated)=ne unus quidem, not a man.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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