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1. καίτοι καὶ τοῦτο: cf. IV. 12. 2. λοιδορίαν κατηγορίας: see note on § 10.1. 5. κατὰ τὴν αὑτῶν φύσιν, op- posed to ἐν τοῖς νόμοις (4): the accident of personal nature is expressed also in συμβαίνει (6). 7. ταυτὶ τὰ δικαστήρια: most of these were in the ἀγορά, as is implied by Lysias, XIX. 55. 8. ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων, i.e. out of (our stock of) private enmity. For the use of ἀπὸ, cf. Thuc. I. 141, ἀπὸ τῶν αὑτῶν δαπανῶντες. 9. κακῶς......ἀλλήλους, abuse one another with lawless epithets: ἀπόρρητα were epithets which it was unlawful to apply to a citizen: cf. Lys. X. 6, ἐρεῖ ὡς οὐκ ἔστι τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἐάν τις εἴπῃ τὸν πατέρα ἀπεκτονέναι: τὸν γὰρ νόμον οὐ ταῦτ᾽ ἀπαγορεύειν: ἀλλ̓ ἀνδροφόνον οὐκ ἐᾶν λέγειν. This speech shows that ἀνδροφόνος, ῥίψασπις, πατραλοίας, and μητραλοίας were ἀπόρρητα, but the number must have been much larger. 10. ἐὰν...τυγχάνῃ, if it shall happen that anyone has wronged: the perfect participle is the common form for expressing past time with τυγχάνω etc.; ἐὰν ἀδικήσας τύχῃ would mean if he shall perchance wrong (M.T. 144, 147.1).
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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