William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown

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1. πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ κ.τ.λ.: these accusatives are direct objects of προείλετο, but cognate with κατώρθωσε. Demosth. invariably uses κατορθῶ in its neuter sense of succeed, as in § 274.6, οὐ κατώρθωσε. If an object is added, as in XXI. 106, εἰ γὰρ ἓν ὧν ἐπεβούλευσε κατώρθωσεν, it is cognate: see XXIV. 7, XXXVII. 2. So in Cor. § 290.3 τοῦ κατορθοῦν τοὺς ἀγωνιζομένους is not causing the combatants to succeed, but the success of the combatants, as in πάντα κατορθοῦν, to succeed in all things, just preceding. In other authors κατορθῶ is often active, as in Soph. El. 416, κατώρθωσαν βροτούς.

3. τὸν ἐροῦντ̓, i.e. the orator for the public funeral. The funeral eulogy on those who fell in battle was first introduced (acc. to Diod. XI. 33) in the Persian wars. We have one genuine ἐπιτάφιος λόγος, that of Hyperides in honour of those who fell in the Lamian war (322 B.C.); the famous eulogy of Pericles in 430 B.C., given in the words of Thucydides (II. 35—46); with one in Plat. Menex. (236—249), sportively ascribed to Aspasia by Socrates. The one ascribed to Lysias (II.) is of doubtful authenticity, and that found among the speeches of Demosthenes (LX.) is certainly spurious.

4. παρ᾽ αὐτὰ τὰ συμβάντα: i.e. when there might have been a strong public prejudice against him, as a leader who had failed (cf. § 248.7).

5. προβληθέντα, nominated: cf. § 149.3.

7. Ἡγήμονα, mentioned by Ae- schines (III. 25): he belonged to the Macedonian party at Athens with Demades and Pythocles.

8. παρελθόντος before σοῦ καὶ Πυθοκλέους, but κατηγορούντων after these words.

10. ἃ καὶ σὺ νυνὶ, i.e. which you again (καὶ) now charge me with.— ἔτ᾽ ἄμεινον, all the more eagerly.