optima enim est ea reprehensio quam de slam cim'li hand
prudcnter administrate mttqfium his verbis cornplezus est (then follows a.
prudcnter administrate mttqfium his verbis cornplezus est (then follows a.
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs
72 FIRST PHILIPPIG IV ?
?
1, 2
18 ? 273, 24 ? 46, 25 ? 9 1rpo-ri0ers (abs. ), Thuc. iii 38, 1 1in
1rp00e? v'rwv (11701. 8 1rspl Munbnl/alwv Ae? 'ycw, Aristotle's Const. Qf
Athens 44 ? 2 (ol 1rp666poi) fnre? p div 56? xpmlarlfew rporzde? aa'w.
On the order of business at meetings of the Ecclesia, see Gilbert
Gk. Const. Ant. i 3242 f = 291 Engl. ed. wpofire? Osn-o has been
proposed (by Dindorf), but in good Greek this would have been
expressed by wpofixewo, cp. Aristoph. Ecol. 401 rap). a'wmpias
7rp0K? LILe? VOU.
2. e? n'w'xdw (: e? 1re? o'xov 6. 11 . . Kai . . ): used absolutely as
in 14 ? 5 and Thuc. vi 33 e? ma'xfio'w. (iv: here placed
after the first word of the apodosis, to denote its hypothetical
character, and afterwards repeated with 67011 and e? reipufia-qv
(Goodwin MT. ? 223). la>>; . . dre? fivawm Plato Gorg.
506 B fifie? ws a>> T0614) {11 fizekeyb/mv, has all"; 7211' 1'00 'Ap. ? lovos
d1re? 6wxa. bfia'w. Goodwin MT. ? 613, 2. I
3. 76w mom," sc. 711(1);an dnoqfialveaflal. or Myew (Lysias
31 ? 2), or e? v nil/Iv d'yopee? ew (Isocr. 6 ? 2). yvdapqv:
without the Art. after dro? alvw0ac, as in [13] ? 11, 18 ? 189, 19
? 156, 51 ? 18, [59] ? 46, Xen. Anab. i 6, 9.
5. 16? (e): emphatic.
6. a yuyve? mw = n'qv e? aiyv 'yvu'mnv. inre? p = repl, as in
? ? 10, 16, 42, 46; 2 ? ? 1, 3; 6 ? 35 pi) 1repi 're? iv aurale [M15'
l'l1re? p 1631/ e? 'Ew 1rpa'y,u. d. 'rwv, 1 ? 5 01'; 1repl 56E"; 0175' l'nre? p ,ue? pous
pra9, 18 ? ? 17, 76; 21 ? 24 (cp. Sauppe Epistola C'ritica ad
Hermannum p. 36).
9. We? pqs 'rvyxt'wew: substituted for [Le-r6. roi'rrous 50Ke'iv
Xe? 'yew of Proocm. 1 p. 1418. {K 'rofi mpekqhved'ros Xp6-
vov: here (as in ? 2 and 24 ? 90) the terminus ex quo is kept
in view, instead of the terminus in qua, expressed by e? v 101's
rapekykuOe? av. in 9 ? 5. Op. 18 ? 203 and 20 ? 1411 6:: raw-res
1017 702611011.
10. 'rd Se? ovO' ofrroi. o'uveBm'JXwa-av: echoed in {6a floukelie-
000. 1. The result is a more pointed sentence than that in
Proocm. 1 :2 14%|! 017v EZXE Kn. th Tr'z. 1rpa'. 'y,u. a1-a. , 017651 8. 11 5561.
aunfiovkeziew. In the text o-weBofiXeuo-av refers to past time,
vi'rv {Sel- to present ; Goodwin 111T. ? ? 410, 423, and p. 407.
? 2 l. 11. 01'>>: 6. 6upn1'e? ov : echoed by e? vGU/mre? ov in ? 3 l. 21.
For the sense of the context cp. Prooem. 30 00K devan're'ov 1ch 'ye-yqu-
as'vots' '6 'ylip e'o'fl 111w rupehnkvao'nov xu'pw-rov, 'roii'ro "pin; 15. pee/\on'm.
Be? A-rurrov vmipxu. 'ri oi'lv Toii-r' e? 'a-rw, 11>> a'vfips; 'AOrpuzior; 37:. 05%|! 1'1va
'niw Ee? ov-rmv floreuivruw Kincqu c'xet 14': npziyaaru. ' e'1rei. :1 ye mil/9' 3. rpoafixs
FPO-776Vwa oil'rw: elxzv, 058' av EM-rie iv ail-rd. yeve? zrgm BeA-n'w, Phil. iii
01'. 9 ? 5 Ti) Xu'pw-rov ('11 mi; rapehyAuOe? rn, 10610 wpos 'ni. pe'Aon-ra. 80. 11-
1710! ! \'nruipxu KT)", 1 5 4. Hermogenes iii 359 quotes the text among exx.
0f e? 'wo'm. . . napdSoEoL mi. fideial. Kai. 55040;. Quintil. vi 5, 7 laudatur
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? 1V ? ? 2, 3 FIRST PHILIPPIG 73
consilium Demosthenis, quad, cum suaderct helium Atheniensibus parum id
prospere ezpcnis, nihil adhuc faetmn esse ratione marist'rat ; potcrat eni'm
cmandari negligentia : at at nihil asset erratum, melioris in posterum spei non
erat ratio. Bacon Novum Organum l xeiv saquitur ratio omnium maxima
ad faeiendam spam; nempe ea: erroribus temporis praeie'mlti et viarum adhuc
tentaturum.
optima enim est ea reprehensio quam de slam cim'li hand
prudcnter administrate mttqfium his verbis cornplezus est (then follows a.
paraphrase of this or the parallel passage).
13. Tots--wpdypuww: Xen. Anab. i 3, 3 xahem'fis ? e? pw 102's
rapofio'i rpdynaaw. 068(e? ) repeats with emphasis the pre-
ceding 017, 15 ? 14. >
14. uo'riiv: dependent on 8, cp. 1 ? 4.
16. ft oov em 'roi'rro; rhetorical question, as in ? ? 20, 25,
34; 3? 30; 6? ? 20, 24, 31; s? 7; 9? ? 22, 37.
17. wowl'w'ruw: practically synonymous with npufldv-ruv,
cp. ? 5 olide? v 8. 1! in! . . 1re1rol'quu e? 'rpageu.
19. nporflxe: so. 1rpd'r1'ew. For the idiomatic use of Impf.
with reference to present time cp. 8 ? 67 ; 19 ? ? 178, 257.
20. yeve? c'eat: Aor. after e? Mrls fir (Goodwin MT. ? 136), as in
1 ? 14, 9 ? 5, Praoem. 30 and 38 (Kai-Iowa Progr. 1883 p. 20).
? 3 l. 20. Emu-flu. ) : as often, without M, in contrast to ,ue? v in
? 2. Cp. ? 34, 2 ? 1, 6 ? 3, 9 ? 9. Ee? is added, however, in
22 ? 17, [42] ? 1, 55 ? 22. Instances of both uses are found in
Thucydides. (Karlowa1. c. p. 13. )
21. inuP-rl-re? ov: so. one. For the general sense compare
Thuc. i 42 (In! e? VOI/fl'flQe? l'TfS Kai vedwepe? s 11s 1rapd. rpsoflv're? pwv
a. de [1. 0. 9(61'. Kul. wap' Mhow dxm'sovo't Kat--live. -
P-l-F-V'nfl'Kolli'VOLS, 'whether by report from others, or by re-
membrance in the case of those who have personal know-
ledge'; ct si qui ea: aliz's auditis et guicunque ipsi experti
reminiscimini (Voemel).
u'mmiuv and eids'val. are often contrasted, as in 20 ? 55, Isocr. 5 ? 42;
12 163, 207, Isaeus 6 ? ? ll, 64; 7 ? 28.
22. fi-VGlLLp-V'QO'KOILG'VOLS'. of personal reminiscence of the past,
founded on actual experience. Cp. Isocr. 8 ? 12 Oauue? ? w 8% 1632/ re
wpevare'pmv, ei nnxe'n prvqpovniovo'i, Kat 151v veme? pwv, El unafivbs' 6K1! -
xe? mnv, and Lycurgus ? 93 rig 75p a": lse? pmvyfm 111w rpean-rs'pwv, i) 16w
vem're'pwv oi": liKfiKoe ,' (Sauppe).
"gMK-qv . . (5s Kin-has. In Greek (as in Latin) Relatives
(an Interrogatives) can be set side by side without a con-
junction. Cp. (after in; ele-ii-re) 24 ? 39 1rap' oi'ous lib/LOU! 010>>
051-0; elo'fivc'ykev, 19 ? 61 010. 111 firapxov-rwv aim-0? : 1rap' int. le
oi'wv e? 'rvxov, and ib. ? 63, 20 ? 93, 21 ? 143, 23 ? 107. See also
? 26 1. 322. In English we either insert a conjunction (and or
and yet), or make the first clause subordinate to the second.
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? 74 FIRST PHILIPPIC' IV ? 3
23. ? 5 0") xpovos oi': nohi'vs, 'not long ago,' without e? m-lv.
Cp. Plato Rep. 4520 and Isocr. 5 ? 47 0:? TON); xpe? vos ? 5 06,
also Thuc. i 6, 3 and 4.
24. 1rpoo'11K6v-rws, in a. manner true to the best traditions of
Athens; 18 ? 203 f (i'ywwg'oye? vn 1repl rprelwv K'rh. Kal 10. 00'
oiirw (rem/1'1 Kal rpoofixovra 'ro'is i'me're? pors fiflww 13,41,629 inroha/t-
fldver' ell/cu, (Ibo-re Kal 161w 1rpo'ye? vwv "rods Tafrra. rpdfavras ,udMa-r'
e? 'lrawe'i'rc. Cp. 2 ? 24, 6 ? 8, 9 ? 45, 15 ? ? 22, 30; 16 ? 15,
Isocr. 4 ? ? 52, 53. _Aristotle (Rhct. i 9, 31) mentions among
topics for encomium 8cm Ka'rd. Ta rpoofikov, 01011 el dim. 1631/
rpo'ye? vwv Kal T61! rpoiirqpype? ku.
26. we? hqmv: either the Corinthian War, begun in 395-4
3. 0. (18 ? 96, 20 ? 52; Grote e. 74), or the more recent
Boeotian War, begun in 378 (Grote c.
18 ? 273, 24 ? 46, 25 ? 9 1rpo-ri0ers (abs. ), Thuc. iii 38, 1 1in
1rp00e? v'rwv (11701. 8 1rspl Munbnl/alwv Ae? 'ycw, Aristotle's Const. Qf
Athens 44 ? 2 (ol 1rp666poi) fnre? p div 56? xpmlarlfew rporzde? aa'w.
On the order of business at meetings of the Ecclesia, see Gilbert
Gk. Const. Ant. i 3242 f = 291 Engl. ed. wpofire? Osn-o has been
proposed (by Dindorf), but in good Greek this would have been
expressed by wpofixewo, cp. Aristoph. Ecol. 401 rap). a'wmpias
7rp0K? LILe? VOU.
2. e? n'w'xdw (: e? 1re? o'xov 6. 11 . . Kai . . ): used absolutely as
in 14 ? 5 and Thuc. vi 33 e? ma'xfio'w. (iv: here placed
after the first word of the apodosis, to denote its hypothetical
character, and afterwards repeated with 67011 and e? reipufia-qv
(Goodwin MT. ? 223). la>>; . . dre? fivawm Plato Gorg.
506 B fifie? ws a>> T0614) {11 fizekeyb/mv, has all"; 7211' 1'00 'Ap. ? lovos
d1re? 6wxa. bfia'w. Goodwin MT. ? 613, 2. I
3. 76w mom," sc. 711(1);an dnoqfialveaflal. or Myew (Lysias
31 ? 2), or e? v nil/Iv d'yopee? ew (Isocr. 6 ? 2). yvdapqv:
without the Art. after dro? alvw0ac, as in [13] ? 11, 18 ? 189, 19
? 156, 51 ? 18, [59] ? 46, Xen. Anab. i 6, 9.
5. 16? (e): emphatic.
6. a yuyve? mw = n'qv e? aiyv 'yvu'mnv. inre? p = repl, as in
? ? 10, 16, 42, 46; 2 ? ? 1, 3; 6 ? 35 pi) 1repi 're? iv aurale [M15'
l'l1re? p 1631/ e? 'Ew 1rpa'y,u. d. 'rwv, 1 ? 5 01'; 1repl 56E"; 0175' l'nre? p ,ue? pous
pra9, 18 ? ? 17, 76; 21 ? 24 (cp. Sauppe Epistola C'ritica ad
Hermannum p. 36).
9. We? pqs 'rvyxt'wew: substituted for [Le-r6. roi'rrous 50Ke'iv
Xe? 'yew of Proocm. 1 p. 1418. {K 'rofi mpekqhved'ros Xp6-
vov: here (as in ? 2 and 24 ? 90) the terminus ex quo is kept
in view, instead of the terminus in qua, expressed by e? v 101's
rapekykuOe? av. in 9 ? 5. Op. 18 ? 203 and 20 ? 1411 6:: raw-res
1017 702611011.
10. 'rd Se? ovO' ofrroi. o'uveBm'JXwa-av: echoed in {6a floukelie-
000. 1. The result is a more pointed sentence than that in
Proocm. 1 :2 14%|! 017v EZXE Kn. th Tr'z. 1rpa'. 'y,u. a1-a. , 017651 8. 11 5561.
aunfiovkeziew. In the text o-weBofiXeuo-av refers to past time,
vi'rv {Sel- to present ; Goodwin 111T. ? ? 410, 423, and p. 407.
? 2 l. 11. 01'>>: 6. 6upn1'e? ov : echoed by e? vGU/mre? ov in ? 3 l. 21.
For the sense of the context cp. Prooem. 30 00K devan're'ov 1ch 'ye-yqu-
as'vots' '6 'ylip e'o'fl 111w rupehnkvao'nov xu'pw-rov, 'roii'ro "pin; 15. pee/\on'm.
Be? A-rurrov vmipxu. 'ri oi'lv Toii-r' e? 'a-rw, 11>> a'vfips; 'AOrpuzior; 37:. 05%|! 1'1va
'niw Ee? ov-rmv floreuivruw Kincqu c'xet 14': npziyaaru. ' e'1rei. :1 ye mil/9' 3. rpoafixs
FPO-776Vwa oil'rw: elxzv, 058' av EM-rie iv ail-rd. yeve? zrgm BeA-n'w, Phil. iii
01'. 9 ? 5 Ti) Xu'pw-rov ('11 mi; rapehyAuOe? rn, 10610 wpos 'ni. pe'Aon-ra. 80. 11-
1710! ! \'nruipxu KT)", 1 5 4. Hermogenes iii 359 quotes the text among exx.
0f e? 'wo'm. . . napdSoEoL mi. fideial. Kai. 55040;. Quintil. vi 5, 7 laudatur
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? 1V ? ? 2, 3 FIRST PHILIPPIG 73
consilium Demosthenis, quad, cum suaderct helium Atheniensibus parum id
prospere ezpcnis, nihil adhuc faetmn esse ratione marist'rat ; potcrat eni'm
cmandari negligentia : at at nihil asset erratum, melioris in posterum spei non
erat ratio. Bacon Novum Organum l xeiv saquitur ratio omnium maxima
ad faeiendam spam; nempe ea: erroribus temporis praeie'mlti et viarum adhuc
tentaturum.
optima enim est ea reprehensio quam de slam cim'li hand
prudcnter administrate mttqfium his verbis cornplezus est (then follows a.
paraphrase of this or the parallel passage).
13. Tots--wpdypuww: Xen. Anab. i 3, 3 xahem'fis ? e? pw 102's
rapofio'i rpdynaaw. 068(e? ) repeats with emphasis the pre-
ceding 017, 15 ? 14. >
14. uo'riiv: dependent on 8, cp. 1 ? 4.
16. ft oov em 'roi'rro; rhetorical question, as in ? ? 20, 25,
34; 3? 30; 6? ? 20, 24, 31; s? 7; 9? ? 22, 37.
17. wowl'w'ruw: practically synonymous with npufldv-ruv,
cp. ? 5 olide? v 8. 1! in! . . 1re1rol'quu e? 'rpageu.
19. nporflxe: so. 1rpd'r1'ew. For the idiomatic use of Impf.
with reference to present time cp. 8 ? 67 ; 19 ? ? 178, 257.
20. yeve? c'eat: Aor. after e? Mrls fir (Goodwin MT. ? 136), as in
1 ? 14, 9 ? 5, Praoem. 30 and 38 (Kai-Iowa Progr. 1883 p. 20).
? 3 l. 20. Emu-flu. ) : as often, without M, in contrast to ,ue? v in
? 2. Cp. ? 34, 2 ? 1, 6 ? 3, 9 ? 9. Ee? is added, however, in
22 ? 17, [42] ? 1, 55 ? 22. Instances of both uses are found in
Thucydides. (Karlowa1. c. p. 13. )
21. inuP-rl-re? ov: so. one. For the general sense compare
Thuc. i 42 (In! e? VOI/fl'flQe? l'TfS Kai vedwepe? s 11s 1rapd. rpsoflv're? pwv
a. de [1. 0. 9(61'. Kul. wap' Mhow dxm'sovo't Kat--live. -
P-l-F-V'nfl'Kolli'VOLS, 'whether by report from others, or by re-
membrance in the case of those who have personal know-
ledge'; ct si qui ea: aliz's auditis et guicunque ipsi experti
reminiscimini (Voemel).
u'mmiuv and eids'val. are often contrasted, as in 20 ? 55, Isocr. 5 ? 42;
12 163, 207, Isaeus 6 ? ? ll, 64; 7 ? 28.
22. fi-VGlLLp-V'QO'KOILG'VOLS'. of personal reminiscence of the past,
founded on actual experience. Cp. Isocr. 8 ? 12 Oauue? ? w 8% 1632/ re
wpevare'pmv, ei nnxe'n prvqpovniovo'i, Kat 151v veme? pwv, El unafivbs' 6K1! -
xe? mnv, and Lycurgus ? 93 rig 75p a": lse? pmvyfm 111w rpean-rs'pwv, i) 16w
vem're'pwv oi": liKfiKoe ,' (Sauppe).
"gMK-qv . . (5s Kin-has. In Greek (as in Latin) Relatives
(an Interrogatives) can be set side by side without a con-
junction. Cp. (after in; ele-ii-re) 24 ? 39 1rap' oi'ous lib/LOU! 010>>
051-0; elo'fivc'ykev, 19 ? 61 010. 111 firapxov-rwv aim-0? : 1rap' int. le
oi'wv e? 'rvxov, and ib. ? 63, 20 ? 93, 21 ? 143, 23 ? 107. See also
? 26 1. 322. In English we either insert a conjunction (and or
and yet), or make the first clause subordinate to the second.
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? 74 FIRST PHILIPPIC' IV ? 3
23. ? 5 0") xpovos oi': nohi'vs, 'not long ago,' without e? m-lv.
Cp. Plato Rep. 4520 and Isocr. 5 ? 47 0:? TON); xpe? vos ? 5 06,
also Thuc. i 6, 3 and 4.
24. 1rpoo'11K6v-rws, in a. manner true to the best traditions of
Athens; 18 ? 203 f (i'ywwg'oye? vn 1repl rprelwv K'rh. Kal 10. 00'
oiirw (rem/1'1 Kal rpoofixovra 'ro'is i'me're? pors fiflww 13,41,629 inroha/t-
fldver' ell/cu, (Ibo-re Kal 161w 1rpo'ye? vwv "rods Tafrra. rpdfavras ,udMa-r'
e? 'lrawe'i'rc. Cp. 2 ? 24, 6 ? 8, 9 ? 45, 15 ? ? 22, 30; 16 ? 15,
Isocr. 4 ? ? 52, 53. _Aristotle (Rhct. i 9, 31) mentions among
topics for encomium 8cm Ka'rd. Ta rpoofikov, 01011 el dim. 1631/
rpo'ye? vwv Kal T61! rpoiirqpype? ku.
26. we? hqmv: either the Corinthian War, begun in 395-4
3. 0. (18 ? 96, 20 ? 52; Grote e. 74), or the more recent
Boeotian War, begun in 378 (Grote c.
