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4. ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς...οὔσης, when the question in a manner concerned herself. 6. νὴ Δία, in bitter irony: cf. XX. 161. 8. δἰ ἃς προησόμεθα (excuses) for sacrificing (final). 9. ὑπαρχόντων (cf. § 95.5): the glories (καλά) are viewed as a public possession. 10. ἐπεχείρησ᾽ ἄν (M.T. 506): there is no objection here to εἰ ἐπεχείρησ᾽ ἄν, as to either grammar or sense. It is amply justified by XIX. 172: εἰ μὴ διὰ τὸ τούτους βούλεσθαι σῶσαι, ἐξώλης ἀπολοίμην καὶ προώλης εἰ προσλαβών γ᾽ ἂν ἀργύριον πάνυ πολὺ μετὰ τούτων ἐπ ρέσβευσα. There εἰ ἐπρέσβευσα ἄν is if I would have gone on the embassy, as εἰ ἐπεχείρησα ἄν here is if I would have undertaken (for any consideration). There may be a justification of ἐπεχείρησ᾽ ἄν in the following τό γ᾽ ἔργον οὐκ ἂν ἐποιήσαθ̓ ὑμεῖς, you would not have done the thing in reality (ἔργῳ), opposed to the preceding supposition, if I had been capable of undertaking it even in word (λόγῳ). 13. οὐχ ὑπῆρχον...οὗτοι; were not these men here ready to tell you this? ταῦτα refers to μνησικακεῖν... προησόμεθα (6—8).
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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