A customary formula
specially
used (like quad felix faustum-
que sit) as a heading in public documents, e.
que sit) as a heading in public documents, e.
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs
.
.
e'navfcivov'm.
is parallel to 7074191" Ewiv, and
? 16 ixuw Krk. t0 Ex0p6q.
137. Kul. wpifim Se? --Ilrotfi're, ' aye, and you will now be able
to act, if you do your duty' (esp. by assigning the surplus of
your revenues to the conduct of the war and not to your
amusements). lull. . . N: 9 ? 70, 18 ? 215, etc. 'Irpd'rrew
(agerc) here appears to refer to action in general, role-TV
(faccrc) to the doing of the several acts considered as a series
of details. Cp. 4 ? 20 ? 1ri 1Q rpdr'ruv 0:366 16. pucde woze'ire,
9 ? 15 Tocaii'ra. rpd'r'rwv 'rl brain; See on 4 ? 4 1. 48.
'This distinction differs from that of Funkhanel:---'1roteiv do tots.
agendi rations et consilio accipienrlum. Contra wpdrruv de ipsa actione
et susceptioue rei dicitur, maxime in singulis rebus; universe autem mndv
ponitur. Notabile hoc exempluln, 23 ? 178 1ra'lv-r' ivw mi mi-m 1re1roiryxl
Kai. ofidiv duh}; 068% dixaiwe inpafe' (nsrroinxe, however, is bracketed by
Blass).
' ? 16 l. 139. xp6vov, 'time' in general, contrasted with
KGLP6V, 'a point of time,' or a specially suitable 'season' or
' opportunity. '
141. mix (as in 9 ? 32) influences the principal verbs in both
01' the following clauses, flew-timed (143) as well as wpoefkqdn
(cp. ? 2; 414, 31).
142. xwp((a. ): 4 ? 4, 1 ? 9. 'rm'rrqs: not Attica, but
the territory of the Olynthian confederation.
143. miv'raw: masc. before Adv. alwxw-'rn, as in 27 ? 18
dvawxuvre? -rar' dvfipu'nrwv.
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? 202 THIRD 0L YNTHIAG III ? ? 16-18
144. oils . . c'e? a'ew '(1. 16): an exaggeration for 07s . .
flonfifia'ew.
cre? o'ew is not inconsistent with 'ITOAEMfiO'QLEV, and does not involve
the alteration of that verb into :1 Passive or the adoption of "maria-aw
ixe'ivos which would describe the Olynthians as the persons attacked.
'maguv non solurn belle petites sed etiam petentes servare, omnino ue
afflictos incolumes servare, per-ire non pati; Lucian Phalam's i c. 9 ad) 6w
76v e'mflsfiouhwxe? -ra--, . . foils Exepmis, . . mirror); 113v e'mxelprlcre? vrwv
not . . Emma-a," (Voemel ed. 1829).
145. oi'm EXepos; KT)\. Z 25? 63 015K o'urefifis; 013K Liv/16s; 00x
dxdfiap-ros ; 01'! crwcoqfidv-rns ;
146. How, 'in possession of. ' 01': defiopos; Demo-
sthenes treats Philip as a mere Macedonian, a member of a
' barbarous ' tribe ; but the royal house claimed descent from the
Heracleidae of Argos (Herod. viii 137, ix 45, Thuc. ii 99, 2,
v 80, 2), and one of Philip's ancestors, Alexander, had as a
Greek been allowed to compete at the Olympic games (Herod.
v 22). Demosthenes, however, in his hatred of Philip, never
acknowledges his Greek descent, ? ? 20, 24; 9? 31, 19 ? 327.
See also Holm iii c. 14 n. 4. mix 8 1". av d'rrol. 'rus; se.
ailre? v, '(is he) not--anything you like to call (him)? 2 ? 3,
[13] ? 4. Here we may imagine the orator almost out of
breath as he gasps out this final and comprehensive phrase of
vituperation. In such a spasmodic utterance no one need be
surprised either at the presence of hiatus or at the concurrence
of several short syllables.
? 17l. 147. e? dvav'res: [10] ? 8 11117111. . . dihvywpfifln. mU-ra
. . e? aae? vra. no. 2 1rapo? 0e? vra TaO'r' d/Lehozilteva.
148. p. 6vov oi'axl, ' alniost,' ' all but,' 1 ? 2. o-vyKa-ra-
d'Kflldfl'fl-V'ris: 23 ? 108 TGW e'Ka'vzp (Philip) GU'YKGT60'KEUGK6'TWV
n'yu dpxfiv, [17] ? 15, [43] ? 4, all the exx. in Demosthenes.
"baa-1mm, 'therenpon ' ; 2 ? 7, 5 ? 13.
154. pikhov, 'rather ' than himself. fl'r'rqwrm: so. 01
fiTTnOe? u'res, already implied in Ttilll ? uye? vrwm
155. Simon: 1. 87. pe? vew . . e? fifiv, 'he might have
stood his ground ' (but really ran away) ; Goodwin M T. ? 419.
? 18 l. 157. KGl- vfiv, 'similarly now,' applying the com-
parison to the present case; 1 ? 11 ml . . ofirws. vfiv is
not to be coupled with My". For the short hypothetical state-
ments which follow, and may be represented most easily as a.
series of questions, cp. ? 34, 18 ? 107.
158. Mos, 'any one else,' in general; (159) 'e? repos, a
second speaker. (lard-rm: only in 19 ? 57 (with (wands),
20 ? 113, L122. l? 14.
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? III ? 18 THIRD OLYNTHIAO 203
159. 6. 70. ij flax", 'and may success attend you'; Prooem.
32 ? 4 66. 1! (Tow X67011) aup. ? e? pov0' 66pm", d'yaO-fi Trix-g 1l'fl'060'0dl.
A customary formula specially used (like quad felix faustum-
que sit) as a heading in public documents, e. g. Ditt. no. 10 l. 40,
nos. 112, 128, 318, 320, 339, 347 ; cp. Plato Symp. 177 E, Laws
625 0. The same words, written in golden letters, were in-
scribed on the shield of Demosthenes at the battle of Chaeroneia
(Plut. Dem. 20 ? 2).
160. oi'me? ri--dSmeiI, ' there the speaker is at fault no longer '
(as he was in the previous case, 1. 157). The insertion of roW'
prevents an accumulation of short syllables.
161. whfiv--mpakehm, 'unless he happens to omit some
necessary prayer' (lit. 'cxcept if, when he ought to pray, he
omits ' to do so) ; a satirical hit at an audience itself inclined
to the expression of pious hopes for the best, and expecting
such an expression on the part of its orators also; ridct
Athenicnses iii omnia coxa'is perfici posse sperarent (Sauppe).
eiifio. at: 24 ? 68 elixir: . . Ep'yov, Plato Rep. 450 D,
456 C efixa'is lipora.
163. its 'rm'n'6 coupled with a'vvd'yew, Aeschin. 2? 145, Plato
Laws 811 A; here with 6. 0 ota'av'r(a), a word not found elsewhere
in Demosthenes. e? v Myrp may refer either to time or space
('in a short petition '), understanding xpe? vq: (Voemel, Weil) or
xdipq: respectively, or M'qu or new (all these are suggested in
Reiske's Imler). It is applied to time in Thuc. iii 66, 3, iv 55,
3, Plato Ap. 22 B (xpe? vq: expressed in Thuc. i 93, l) ; to space in
Thuc. ii 84, 2; 86, 5; iv 26, 3; 55, 4; 96, 3; vii 67, 3;
70, 4, Xen. Hell. iv 4, 12 (cp. Thuc. vii 36, 6 Eva? epoae? vous
. . e? s 6M'yov 're Kal rdvras 6': T! ) 0. 1376, and ii 84, 1 Evvfi'yov 6's
6M'yov), Aristot. . It'hel. iii 11, 9 601p 8. >> e? hdr'row (11;; Reset) Kal
drinker/Mums hexoi, 'rod'orhq: 566010;"? [Mikhail ' Ta 6' al-riov (in 1'7
[. utflnms 6L6. p. 211 10 dvnxeia'Gai ,ufihhov, 64d 5% To e'v 6M'ytp ('in a
short compass') 0611011 'Yll/ETGL. Cp. Eph. iii 3 ' in few words,'
Acts xxvi 28 f ' with but little persuasion' (RV. ), not
' almost ' (AV. ) e? v 6M'yq: is not found in Demosthenes, the Dat.
Neut. of (SM-yo: occurring three times, but only in the phrase
6Mqu 1rp0're? pov. In Prooem. 53 ? 3, however, we have an
equivalent phrase 61/ ,Bpaxei ho'ylaaage ('for a moment').
e? vl. Ae? yqi, 'in a single word,' is a conjecture supported by only four
inferior Mss. In Soph. El. 1089 we have We ? e? peiv <e? v> Evi. Ae? yq>> ('at
once,' 'in one account"); in Thuc. v 8. 5, 2in Adyw is 'in one continuous
speech'=? uvcz? e? [nicer ib. ? 1. It means ' in short' in Plato Phaedo 7'3 A,
97 a, Rep. 434 n, 439A, 5711), Laws 8560, Aristot. Eth. N. ii 1, 7, and
Lucian Imagines c. 14. In Rep. 571 n e'v blu'yzg is the reading of the first
hand of the Paris us; in 4371) it is that of all the use of Plato and an
important us of Athen. 123 c, where the passage is quoted, while e? v't Adytp
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? 204 THIRD OLYNTHIAC' III ? ? 18, 19
is a correction due to Comarius and universally accepted. Conversely, in
Thuc. vi 34, 4 Kurd. Ae? yov is corrected by Dobree into xa'r' ohl'yov. In the
text there is no suggestion of summing up, which is the ordinary meaning
of e? vi. A15qu, 'in short' ; s'v okiyqiis therefore retained.
164. wpaypd-rwv, ' practical measures,' contrasted with
empty words and idle aspirations. wporetfi : see note on
4 ? 1 1rpoi'rrl0fl'o, and add CIA. ii 47, 6 TOI'IS' 1rpoe? 6povs rpoOeral.
1repl 0. 67017 (or 'roi'mov ib. 76, 15).
165. oime? h'c): l. 160.
? 191. 167. txu, 'can,' with el1re2'v 8 ? 70, 9 ? ? 25, 68,
BLsEelfiei'v 9 ? 21, dil'nhe? 'yew 8 ? 31, e? 'yKaheTv 9 ? 24, 5625a:
18 ? 138, a'u'io'al. 8 ? 3, and 5:. a0e? o'0ai (2 ? 16). 'rd. pruke? :
a topic which has been in the orator's mind since ? 14.
He now takes up the imaginary suggestion that it might be
possible to let the festival-fund alone and provide supplies
from other sources.
168. we? povs e? rfpoos: 1 ? 20. wparwnxofis: applic-
able to military purposes.
169. erf'r'mv (' superior,' 'cleverer'): sc. e? o'rl. xpef-n-ov'
(sc. Myer, cp. ? 18 Myer. fish-rim and 16. fle? krw-ra, and 18 ? 320
xpd-rwm Mwa) is preferred by Blass on rhythmical grounds ;
but eri-rrw alone is found as Neut. P1. in Dem. (20 ? 163).
170. el'rrsp inw, 'if it is possible,' = 61'1er n: fixer. la'rw,
applied to things, is here parallel to lxet, applied to persons
(Weil). This is preferable to understanding ns G'wa 661:1 or
'romfrros m.
171. hop-6. 10:: ironically referred to a stronger phrase,
such as dromiv e? a-rw. 'yfyofle), 'is possible,' with Dat. ,
Xen. Cyr. vi 3, 11 hafle'iil p. 01 'ye? iion'o all'rbv, and e? 'ye? I/e'ro in viii
1, 15 and Anab. i 9, 13. '
172. rd. 1ro. p6v1'(a. ), 'what he has,' contrasted with (173) 're? iv
durdvraw, ' what he has lost' (cp. Hesiod Works and Days
364--5).
? 16 ixuw Krk. t0 Ex0p6q.
137. Kul. wpifim Se? --Ilrotfi're, ' aye, and you will now be able
to act, if you do your duty' (esp. by assigning the surplus of
your revenues to the conduct of the war and not to your
amusements). lull. . . N: 9 ? 70, 18 ? 215, etc. 'Irpd'rrew
(agerc) here appears to refer to action in general, role-TV
(faccrc) to the doing of the several acts considered as a series
of details. Cp. 4 ? 20 ? 1ri 1Q rpdr'ruv 0:366 16. pucde woze'ire,
9 ? 15 Tocaii'ra. rpd'r'rwv 'rl brain; See on 4 ? 4 1. 48.
'This distinction differs from that of Funkhanel:---'1roteiv do tots.
agendi rations et consilio accipienrlum. Contra wpdrruv de ipsa actione
et susceptioue rei dicitur, maxime in singulis rebus; universe autem mndv
ponitur. Notabile hoc exempluln, 23 ? 178 1ra'lv-r' ivw mi mi-m 1re1roiryxl
Kai. ofidiv duh}; 068% dixaiwe inpafe' (nsrroinxe, however, is bracketed by
Blass).
' ? 16 l. 139. xp6vov, 'time' in general, contrasted with
KGLP6V, 'a point of time,' or a specially suitable 'season' or
' opportunity. '
141. mix (as in 9 ? 32) influences the principal verbs in both
01' the following clauses, flew-timed (143) as well as wpoefkqdn
(cp. ? 2; 414, 31).
142. xwp((a. ): 4 ? 4, 1 ? 9. 'rm'rrqs: not Attica, but
the territory of the Olynthian confederation.
143. miv'raw: masc. before Adv. alwxw-'rn, as in 27 ? 18
dvawxuvre? -rar' dvfipu'nrwv.
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? 202 THIRD 0L YNTHIAG III ? ? 16-18
144. oils . . c'e? a'ew '(1. 16): an exaggeration for 07s . .
flonfifia'ew.
cre? o'ew is not inconsistent with 'ITOAEMfiO'QLEV, and does not involve
the alteration of that verb into :1 Passive or the adoption of "maria-aw
ixe'ivos which would describe the Olynthians as the persons attacked.
'maguv non solurn belle petites sed etiam petentes servare, omnino ue
afflictos incolumes servare, per-ire non pati; Lucian Phalam's i c. 9 ad) 6w
76v e'mflsfiouhwxe? -ra--, . . foils Exepmis, . . mirror); 113v e'mxelprlcre? vrwv
not . . Emma-a," (Voemel ed. 1829).
145. oi'm EXepos; KT)\. Z 25? 63 015K o'urefifis; 013K Liv/16s; 00x
dxdfiap-ros ; 01'! crwcoqfidv-rns ;
146. How, 'in possession of. ' 01': defiopos; Demo-
sthenes treats Philip as a mere Macedonian, a member of a
' barbarous ' tribe ; but the royal house claimed descent from the
Heracleidae of Argos (Herod. viii 137, ix 45, Thuc. ii 99, 2,
v 80, 2), and one of Philip's ancestors, Alexander, had as a
Greek been allowed to compete at the Olympic games (Herod.
v 22). Demosthenes, however, in his hatred of Philip, never
acknowledges his Greek descent, ? ? 20, 24; 9? 31, 19 ? 327.
See also Holm iii c. 14 n. 4. mix 8 1". av d'rrol. 'rus; se.
ailre? v, '(is he) not--anything you like to call (him)? 2 ? 3,
[13] ? 4. Here we may imagine the orator almost out of
breath as he gasps out this final and comprehensive phrase of
vituperation. In such a spasmodic utterance no one need be
surprised either at the presence of hiatus or at the concurrence
of several short syllables.
? 17l. 147. e? dvav'res: [10] ? 8 11117111. . . dihvywpfifln. mU-ra
. . e? aae? vra. no. 2 1rapo? 0e? vra TaO'r' d/Lehozilteva.
148. p. 6vov oi'axl, ' alniost,' ' all but,' 1 ? 2. o-vyKa-ra-
d'Kflldfl'fl-V'ris: 23 ? 108 TGW e'Ka'vzp (Philip) GU'YKGT60'KEUGK6'TWV
n'yu dpxfiv, [17] ? 15, [43] ? 4, all the exx. in Demosthenes.
"baa-1mm, 'therenpon ' ; 2 ? 7, 5 ? 13.
154. pikhov, 'rather ' than himself. fl'r'rqwrm: so. 01
fiTTnOe? u'res, already implied in Ttilll ? uye? vrwm
155. Simon: 1. 87. pe? vew . . e? fifiv, 'he might have
stood his ground ' (but really ran away) ; Goodwin M T. ? 419.
? 18 l. 157. KGl- vfiv, 'similarly now,' applying the com-
parison to the present case; 1 ? 11 ml . . ofirws. vfiv is
not to be coupled with My". For the short hypothetical state-
ments which follow, and may be represented most easily as a.
series of questions, cp. ? 34, 18 ? 107.
158. Mos, 'any one else,' in general; (159) 'e? repos, a
second speaker. (lard-rm: only in 19 ? 57 (with (wands),
20 ? 113, L122. l? 14.
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? III ? 18 THIRD OLYNTHIAO 203
159. 6. 70. ij flax", 'and may success attend you'; Prooem.
32 ? 4 66. 1! (Tow X67011) aup. ? e? pov0' 66pm", d'yaO-fi Trix-g 1l'fl'060'0dl.
A customary formula specially used (like quad felix faustum-
que sit) as a heading in public documents, e. g. Ditt. no. 10 l. 40,
nos. 112, 128, 318, 320, 339, 347 ; cp. Plato Symp. 177 E, Laws
625 0. The same words, written in golden letters, were in-
scribed on the shield of Demosthenes at the battle of Chaeroneia
(Plut. Dem. 20 ? 2).
160. oi'me? ri--dSmeiI, ' there the speaker is at fault no longer '
(as he was in the previous case, 1. 157). The insertion of roW'
prevents an accumulation of short syllables.
161. whfiv--mpakehm, 'unless he happens to omit some
necessary prayer' (lit. 'cxcept if, when he ought to pray, he
omits ' to do so) ; a satirical hit at an audience itself inclined
to the expression of pious hopes for the best, and expecting
such an expression on the part of its orators also; ridct
Athenicnses iii omnia coxa'is perfici posse sperarent (Sauppe).
eiifio. at: 24 ? 68 elixir: . . Ep'yov, Plato Rep. 450 D,
456 C efixa'is lipora.
163. its 'rm'n'6 coupled with a'vvd'yew, Aeschin. 2? 145, Plato
Laws 811 A; here with 6. 0 ota'av'r(a), a word not found elsewhere
in Demosthenes. e? v Myrp may refer either to time or space
('in a short petition '), understanding xpe? vq: (Voemel, Weil) or
xdipq: respectively, or M'qu or new (all these are suggested in
Reiske's Imler). It is applied to time in Thuc. iii 66, 3, iv 55,
3, Plato Ap. 22 B (xpe? vq: expressed in Thuc. i 93, l) ; to space in
Thuc. ii 84, 2; 86, 5; iv 26, 3; 55, 4; 96, 3; vii 67, 3;
70, 4, Xen. Hell. iv 4, 12 (cp. Thuc. vii 36, 6 Eva? epoae? vous
. . e? s 6M'yov 're Kal rdvras 6': T! ) 0. 1376, and ii 84, 1 Evvfi'yov 6's
6M'yov), Aristot. . It'hel. iii 11, 9 601p 8. >> e? hdr'row (11;; Reset) Kal
drinker/Mums hexoi, 'rod'orhq: 566010;"? [Mikhail ' Ta 6' al-riov (in 1'7
[. utflnms 6L6. p. 211 10 dvnxeia'Gai ,ufihhov, 64d 5% To e'v 6M'ytp ('in a
short compass') 0611011 'Yll/ETGL. Cp. Eph. iii 3 ' in few words,'
Acts xxvi 28 f ' with but little persuasion' (RV. ), not
' almost ' (AV. ) e? v 6M'yq: is not found in Demosthenes, the Dat.
Neut. of (SM-yo: occurring three times, but only in the phrase
6Mqu 1rp0're? pov. In Prooem. 53 ? 3, however, we have an
equivalent phrase 61/ ,Bpaxei ho'ylaaage ('for a moment').
e? vl. Ae? yqi, 'in a single word,' is a conjecture supported by only four
inferior Mss. In Soph. El. 1089 we have We ? e? peiv <e? v> Evi. Ae? yq>> ('at
once,' 'in one account"); in Thuc. v 8. 5, 2in Adyw is 'in one continuous
speech'=? uvcz? e? [nicer ib. ? 1. It means ' in short' in Plato Phaedo 7'3 A,
97 a, Rep. 434 n, 439A, 5711), Laws 8560, Aristot. Eth. N. ii 1, 7, and
Lucian Imagines c. 14. In Rep. 571 n e'v blu'yzg is the reading of the first
hand of the Paris us; in 4371) it is that of all the use of Plato and an
important us of Athen. 123 c, where the passage is quoted, while e? v't Adytp
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? 204 THIRD OLYNTHIAC' III ? ? 18, 19
is a correction due to Comarius and universally accepted. Conversely, in
Thuc. vi 34, 4 Kurd. Ae? yov is corrected by Dobree into xa'r' ohl'yov. In the
text there is no suggestion of summing up, which is the ordinary meaning
of e? vi. A15qu, 'in short' ; s'v okiyqiis therefore retained.
164. wpaypd-rwv, ' practical measures,' contrasted with
empty words and idle aspirations. wporetfi : see note on
4 ? 1 1rpoi'rrl0fl'o, and add CIA. ii 47, 6 TOI'IS' 1rpoe? 6povs rpoOeral.
1repl 0. 67017 (or 'roi'mov ib. 76, 15).
165. oime? h'c): l. 160.
? 191. 167. txu, 'can,' with el1re2'v 8 ? 70, 9 ? ? 25, 68,
BLsEelfiei'v 9 ? 21, dil'nhe? 'yew 8 ? 31, e? 'yKaheTv 9 ? 24, 5625a:
18 ? 138, a'u'io'al. 8 ? 3, and 5:. a0e? o'0ai (2 ? 16). 'rd. pruke? :
a topic which has been in the orator's mind since ? 14.
He now takes up the imaginary suggestion that it might be
possible to let the festival-fund alone and provide supplies
from other sources.
168. we? povs e? rfpoos: 1 ? 20. wparwnxofis: applic-
able to military purposes.
169. erf'r'mv (' superior,' 'cleverer'): sc. e? o'rl. xpef-n-ov'
(sc. Myer, cp. ? 18 Myer. fish-rim and 16. fle? krw-ra, and 18 ? 320
xpd-rwm Mwa) is preferred by Blass on rhythmical grounds ;
but eri-rrw alone is found as Neut. P1. in Dem. (20 ? 163).
170. el'rrsp inw, 'if it is possible,' = 61'1er n: fixer. la'rw,
applied to things, is here parallel to lxet, applied to persons
(Weil). This is preferable to understanding ns G'wa 661:1 or
'romfrros m.
171. hop-6. 10:: ironically referred to a stronger phrase,
such as dromiv e? a-rw. 'yfyofle), 'is possible,' with Dat. ,
Xen. Cyr. vi 3, 11 hafle'iil p. 01 'ye? iion'o all'rbv, and e? 'ye? I/e'ro in viii
1, 15 and Anab. i 9, 13. '
172. rd. 1ro. p6v1'(a. ), 'what he has,' contrasted with (173) 're? iv
durdvraw, ' what he has lost' (cp. Hesiod Works and Days
364--5).
