The Oration of Demosthenes On the Crown With Extracts From the Oration of Aesc
The Oration of Demosthenes On the Crown With Extracts From the Oration of Aesc
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Xen. Hellen. , III. 5. 13; Isocr. Panegyr. , p. 36. AtcpiTos : promiscuous and interminable; a single word hardly renders it. Cf. IL, II. 796 : the /j. Vdoi aKpirot of Priam ; id. III. 412 : the #xea aKpira of Helen. Diss. Calls attention to the grace- ful structure of this last period. First the general statement, i) II. StetoT??- KCI ; then the explanation and description by the parts introduced by KO. L : linally the summing up of the whole idea in stronger terms, dXXd rt?, K. T. E. 19. XP 1... lF l>aTa Q-vaXuTKwv, by lavishing money. Philip's skill in the use o( bribes became proverbial. Cf. Horace Od. , Bk. III. , XVI. 13. By his con- quests in Thrace he had obtained possession of the gold-mines of Oenidps, wh. Are said (of. Bneckh, Piibl. Econ. Athcn. , p. 10) to have yielded him an annual rove^e of 1000 talents. Avrovs = dXX^Xoi's ; of. H. 686; G. 996 ; Cu. 473. Etr, then, denoting sequence. Iv ots, K. T. K. : the sense is that by means of the errors and follies of others he was advan- cing his own interests.
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