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ἡγούμενοι γὰρ...καθειστήκεσαν ἡμῖν ‘For, believing that he [αὐτόν, Dicaeogenes] would not confirm another claim to any part of the property which he had resigned in our favour before the law-court, we insisted on this point [διισχυριζόμεθα, imperf.] against Micion before the judges, offering to suffer what they pleased if D. confirmed M.'s title to the tenement, — never dreaming that he [D.] would violate his agreement, — though our only ground for such a faith was the fact that sureties had been given to us’. ἂν βεβαιώσειν: as in Thuc. II. 8 the mss. give ἂν προσχωρήσειν, v. 82 ἂν ὠφελήσειν, v. 66 ἂν λυπήσειν, VIII. 25 ἂν προσχωρήσειν, VIII. 71 ἂν ἡσυχάσειν. In VI. 66 the corr. ἂν λυπήσειαν is probable: in the other places Classen (rightly, I think) keeps ἄν, with Herbst, instead of omitting it with Stahl. Cp. Goodwin § 41. 4. — οὐκ ἂν...οἰόμενοι ...πρᾶξαι, cp. § 8, note. — οὐ δι᾽ ἄλλ᾽ οὐδέν: i.e. the character of D. himself was no guarantee, but we believed that he would not expose his surety to an ἐγγύης δίκη (like the present).
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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