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1. τί...ἠδύνατο; what did this (§ 25.5-8) signify? Cf. VIII. 57, XXI. 31. 2. τὸν μεταξὺ χρόνον τῶν ὅρκων, the intervening time (after making the peace) before he (Philip) should take the oath. ὅρκων refers to Philip's oath, not to the oaths of the two parties. See Shilleto's note on XIX. 164: he quotes Ar. Av. 187 ἐν μέσῳ ἀήρ ἐστι γῆς, between earth (and heaven); Ach. 433, κεῖται δ᾽ ἄνωθεν τῶν Θυεστείων ῥακῶν, μεταξὺ τῶν Ἰνοῦς, i.e. between these rags and those of Ino. 6. ἐξελύσατε, you broke off (stopped): the active, though somewhat less expressive than the middle, conveys the whole idea, and has the best MSS. authority. 7. τοῦτ̓, his own plan, to prolong the time when Athens must be quiet while he could act, referring to 4, 5.— ἐκ παντὸς τοῦ χρόνου, i.e. from Philip's first suggestions of peace. 8. ὅσα προλάβοι, all that he might secure from the city: we might have ὅσ᾽ ἂν προλάβῃ in the same sense (cf. § 25.7). 10. οὐδένα...λύσειν continues the or. obl. from ἕξειν. Even an optative may be thus continued, as in I. 22.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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