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The solemn invocation in this chapter, resembling those which begin and end the exordium (§§ 1, 8), calls attention again to the gravity of the charge about to be made, and to the supreme importance of the events which led to the fatal issue on the field of Chaeronea. He defends his invocation and his general earnestness in §§ 142—144. 4. πατρῷος: Apollo was the pa- ternal God of Athens, not only as the great Ionic divinity, but as the father of Ion (according to Athenian belief). See Schol. on Ar. Av. 1527, πατρῷον δὲ τιμῶσιν Ἀπόλλωνα Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐπεὶ Ἴων, ὁπολέμαρχος Ἀθηναίων, ἐξ᾽ Απόλλωνος καὶ Κρεούσης τῆς Ξούθου ἐγένετο. So in the Ion of Euripides. 5. εἰ ἀληθῆ εἴποιμι καὶ εἶπον, lit. if I should speak the truth to you now and if I did speak it then on the spot: a double condition combining a future and a past supposition (M.T. 509). We should rather invert the order and say, if I then spoke the truth and (shall) speak it again now. Cf. § 190.8. 9. πρὸς ἔχθραν, with a view to enmity: cf. διὰ...ἔχθραν in § 143.10.— φιλονεικίας, contentiousness (against an enemy). 11. ἀνόνητον: so XIX. 315.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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