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ἑταιρεῖν μεμίσθωμαι Aesch<*>. Timarch. § 13 τῷ παιδὶ... ὃς ἂν ἐκμισθωθῇ ἑταιρεῖν. τη<*>ς ρόλεως ..ραππησίας ἀρεστέπηκα] νόμος γὰπ ἦν τὸν ἡταιπηκότα μὴ ρολιτεύεσθαι Argument to Dem. Fals. Leg. p. 338. Or. 59 § 28. This forms the main point of the speech κατ᾽ Ἀνδροτίωνος. See also Ar. Equit. 877. Aeschin. Timarch. §§ 19 —32 (Hermann-Blümner, Privatalt. p. 258). τὸ μνῆμ᾽ ᾠκοδόμησ᾽ ...ἀνηλωκὼς πλέον ἢ τάλαντα δύο The tendency to extravagant outlay on tombs was checked at Athens by a legal enactment referred to by Cicero, Legg. II 64 post aliquanto propter has amp<*>tudines sepuἰcrorum...lege sanctum est, ne quis sepulcrum faceret operosius quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo, ib. 66. Cf. Plato, Legg. p. 959 D ἔστω δὴ νόμος οὗτος: τῷ μὲν δὴ τοῦ μεγίστου τιμη<*>ματος ε<*>ς τὴν ρᾶσαν ταφὴν ἀναλισκόμενα μὴ ρλέον ρέντε μνῶν κ.τ.λ. Plato even suggests that the tomb or barrow (χῶμα) should not take more than the work of five men for five days and that the inscription on the stêlê should not be more than four lines long, ib. p. 958 E.— Lysias Or. 32 § 21 εἰς τὸ μνῆμα τοῦ πατρὸς οὐκ ἀναλώσας πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι μνᾶς ἐκ πεντακισχιλίων δραχμῶν, τὸ μὲν ἥμισυ αὑτῷ τίθησι τὸ δὲ τούτοις λελόγισται (cf. Becker, Charicles III 108=p. 395 of Engl. Abridg.). πλησίον τοῦ τῆς δεσποίνης Archippe, his former master's wife. [τῆς ἀδικίας ἦς—ἠδίκηκεν. The genitive by attraction for the cognate accusative, ἀδικεῖν τινα (μεγάλην) ἀδικίαν. P.]
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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