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ἃ τῆς μισθ, κ.τ.λ. The order is ἃ (ἔξω τῆς μισθώσεως τῆς τραπέζης κ.τ.λ.) ὠφείλετο τῷ Πασίωνι καὶ ἃ οὖτοι (sc. Apoll. and Pasicles) παρειλήφασιν. οὐδὲ πολλοστὸν κ.τ.λ. ‘The smallest fraction of his income, not to say (I needn't say) of his capital.’ This explains τοσαῦτ᾽, tantilla. τῶν προσόδων...τῶν ἀρχαίων ‘interest’ ... ‘capital.’ Cp. Or. 27 §§ 50, 60, 61, 62, and Isaeus 6 § 38 τῶν τε ἀρχαίων ..τῶν τε προσόδων. ἀλαζονεύσεται καὶ τριηραρχίας ἐρεῖ ‘Will in bragging terms talk of his trierarchal (and choragic) expenses.’ Of such ἀλαζονεία there are instances again and again in Dem. and the other orators, e.g. Or. 21 (Midias) § 160—. Or. 38 § 25 τάχα τοίνυν ἴσως καὶ τριηραρχίας ἐροῦσι καὶ τὰ ὄντα ὡς ἀνηλώκασιν εἰς ὑμᾶς, 20 § 151. In Or. 45 § 85, Apollodorns appeals to his father's trierarchies, and in § 66 taunts one of Phormion's witnesses, Stephanus, with having never done the smallest service to the state by τριηραρχία or χορηγία or any other λῃτουργία whatever. Cp. Wyse on Isaeus 4 § 26, p. 396. The plaintiff had really some good reason for being proud of his trierarchal services. Among the orations of Dem. a speech has come down to us (Or. 50, πρὸς Πολυκλέα) in which Apollodorus states that being appointed trierarch (in B.C. 362) he gave his vessel a splendid equipment and liberal wages to the crew; and for more than seventeen months traversed the Hellespont and other waters, often encountering perilous storms, in the public service. χορηγίας One of these services of Apollodorus is mentioned in an inscription of 352—1 B.C., [Οἰνηῒ]ς παίδων [ἐνίκα]. Ἀπολλόδωρος Πασί[ωνος Ἀχαρνεὺς] ἐχορήγει. Λυσιάδης [Ἀθηναῖος ἐδίδασκε. Ἀριστόδημος ἦρ[χε]. C. I. A. II 3, 1238.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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