William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

2, 3. προσήκοντα, i.e. such as chil- dren of the better classes attended: one of the charges against his guardian Aphobus (XXVII. 46) is τοὺς διδασκάλους τοὺς μισθοὺς ἀπεστέρηκε.—τὸν ...ποιήσοντα=ὃς ποιήσει, he who is to do etc. (M.T. 527, 530).—αἰσχρὸν, i.e. ἀνελεύθερον: this idea of the ignobility of toil is a commonplace with the Greeks, as a slave-holding people. Cf. Ar. Av. 1432, τί γὰρ πάθω; σκάπτειν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταμαι.

4. ἀκόλουθα πράττειν is explained by the rest of the clause, χορηγεῖν... χρήσιμον εἶναι.—χορηγεῖν, τριηραρχεῖν: testimony about all his λῃτουργίαι is given in § 267. He was χορηγός in 350 B.C., when he was assaulted by Midias (XXI. 13 ff.); for his numerous trierarchies see XXI. 78, 154, Aesch. III. 51, 52, and cf. § 99.11 (above).

5. εἰσφέρειν, to pay the εἰσφορά, or property-tax: this was assessed “progressively,” the richer being taxed on a larger proportion (τίμημα) of their actual property than the poorer. (See Eisphora in Smith's Dict. Antiq.) The guardians of Demosthenes, to conceal their peculations, continued to enroll their ward in the highest class, so that he paid taxes on a τίμημα of one-fifth of his property (οὐσία), whereas he should have been placed in a much lower class after the inroads upon the estate. See XXVII. 7 and XXVIII. 4.

9. ὥστε, with perfect and present infinitive: M.T. 590, 109.

10. ἐστεφανῶσθαι: see §§ 83, 120, 222, 223.

11. ἃ προειλόμην, i.e. τὴν ἐμὴν προαίρεσιν: cf. § 190.5.