H. Sharpley, Demosthenes: Olynthiacs I, II, III

ἀφορμαῖς, predicate.

τἄξω τῶν ἀγαθῶν=τἄξω ἀγαθά.

τέλειον, “consummate.”

λημμάτων, “petty gains”; generally with an idea of dishonesty.

τοῖς ἀσθενοῦσι . . . σιτίοις διδομένοις. The two datives and the position of the article make this sentence a very clumsy one. If the text is sound, we can only take the words in the following order: ἃ ἔοικε τοῖς σιτίοις διδομένοις ἀσθενοῦσι, for though ἀσθενοῦσι seems sorely to need an article, σιτίοις must have one. The tone of voice would easily prevent any ambiguity in the actual delivery. Of course it is easy to cut out ἀσθενοῦσι, but this is a policy of despair.

παρὰ τῶν ἰατρῶν . . . διδομένοις. Not “given by doctors:” this would introduce a use of παρά, which, though found in Herodotus and Plato, would be impossible in the more chastened prose of the orators. Taken in conjunction with Plat. Rep. 406 D, φάρμακον πιεῖν παρὰ τοῦ ἰατροῦ (“to drink doctor's stuff”), we may say that the phrase means “in medical practice,” literally “from the quarter of doctors.”

καὶ . . . καί, “as . . . so.”

ἃ νέμεσθε, “which are your portion,” possibly with a contemptuous reference to cattle feeding, this being the commonest sense of the middle.

διαρκῆ, “adequate.” Not “lasting” (L. and S.)

ἀπογνόντας, sc. αὐτά. “To give them up and . . .”

ἔστι . . . ἐπαυξάνοντα. Cf. supra, § 25, and ii. § 26 (note).