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μαίνεσθαι...τῇ λήξει, κ.τ.λ. ‘we thought that he was mad in bringing the action’. τῇ λήξει causal dat.,=ὅτι ἔλαχε τὴν δίκην. Cp. Antiph. De Caed. Her. § 3, τοῖς ἀληθέσιν, note, p. 209. — ἡγούμεθα, imperf.: cp. the imperf. διισχυριζόμεθα, § 23. οὐκ ἂν οἰόμενοι...δόξαι,=οὐκ οἰόμενοι ἂν δόξαι (=ὅτι δόξειεν ἄν). For the sake of emphasis, early in the sentence, on a condition or a possibility, ἄν may be separated from its verb by (e.g.) οἴομαι, οἶδα, δοκῶ, φημί: Xen. Cyr. VIII. 7. 25, καὶ νῦν ἡδέως ἄν μοι δοκῶ κοινωνῆσαι. Goodwin § 42. πολλῷ πλείω, κ.τ.λ. ‘though we had far the best of the argument, we were cheated of our verdict — not by the judges, but by Melas’. πολλῷ πλείω καὶ δικαιότερα, lit. ‘a far greater number of just pleas’, comparative of πολλὰ καὶ δίκαια, like πολλὰ καὶ ἀγαθά (Ar. Thesm. 351), etc. — Schömann cp. [Dem.] or. LIX. In Neaer. § 5, τῷ οὖν ἐξαπατήσαντι τῷ λόγῳ τοὺς δικαστὰς δίκαιον ὀργίζεσθαι, οὐ τοῖς ἐξαπατηθεῖσι.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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