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1. δύναμιν here refers to sources of military power, like allies, even when no actual troops are included: see ὁπλίτην δ᾽ , ἱππέα οὐδένα (5). Both δυνάμεις and δύναμις, however, may denote troops: cf. § 237.6, τῶν πολιτικῶν δυνάμεων, and 247.5; so Xen. An. I. 3, 12 ἔχει δύναμιν καὶ πεζὴν καὶ ἱππικὴν καὶ ναυτικήν. 2. οὔτε...ἦν: this refers to the early part of 340 B.C., when Chios and Rhodes were independent of Athens as the result of the Social War (357—355 B.C.), but Byzantium, which then followed Chios and Rhodes, had already renewed her friendship (§ 230.7): see Hist. §§ 2, 51. Corcyra, the old friend and ally of Athens, had become hostile to her before 353 B.C. (see XXIV. 202). 4. χρημάτων σύνταξιν: the pay- ment of the original assessment made on the Delian confederacy by Aristides in 478—477 B.C. was first called φόρος from φέρω, as Thucydides explains it, οὕτω γὰρ ὠνομάσθη τῶν χρημάτων ἡ φορά. The First Athenian Empire made the name odious, so that, when the new federation was formed in 378, the term σύνταξις, agreement, was adopted for the annual payment.—πέντε καὶ τετταράκοντα τάλαντα: this sorry amount of 45 talents shows the decline of the power of Athens after the Social War. The original tribute of 460 talents was raised to 600 under Pericles (Thuc. II. 13.23), and (if we may trust Aesch. II. 175 and Plut. Arist. 24) to 1200 or 1300 after the Peace of Nicias, in large part by the allies commuting personal service for payments of money (Thuc. 1. 99). 5. προεξειλεγμένα, collected in ad- vance, probably by generals to pay their mercenaries. Aeschines (II. 71) speaks of τοὺς περὶ τὸ βῆμα καὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν μισθοφόρους, οἳ τοὺς μὲν ταλαιπώρους νησιώτας καθ̓ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἑξήκοντα τάλαντα εἰσέπραττον σύνταξιν.—ὁπλίτην δ̓, ἱππέα: so Σ and L; cf. § 94.5. 7. οὗτοι: Aeschines and his party. 8. παρεσκευάκεσαν...ἐγγυτέρω: cf. τοὺς θεοὺς ἵλεως αὑτῷ παρασκευάζειν, Plat. Leg. 803 E.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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