Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... let it also be according to the same proportion to those to whom there is less property than the ten talents, they uniting into a company until their property amounts to ten talents." 107. rj fwpa.... irKoiaioi; "or do the rich appear to you that they would have spent a small amount of money for the sake of not (being compelled) to do what is just?" We see the Greek idiom here, in using the personal where we should use an impersonal verb, i. e. Sokooajv, to be supplied from the previous line. See 4, n. Tos refers to the clause which follows it, and is governed by araX&rax, as a gen. of price.--Ov rolmv.... aepvivopai "Therefore, I glory not only in not desisting from these measures through collusion with them," i. e. the rich. Kadvfa'ivat = prcevaricari. See the word in Orat. pro Megalop. p. 206.--ndirra yap.... avayeadai "For during the whole war, the naval expeditions being fitted out under my law, no trierarch ever lodged a petition with you as if having been wronged, nor seated himself in Munychia, nor was thrown into chains by the naval board, nor was any galley, either having been seized out of the harbor, lost to the city, nor lef/ there, not being fit for sea." But all these things, he goes on to say, did happen under the old law. The petitions here alluded to as lodged with the people on account of injuries, were placed upon the altar in the Pnyx by the poorer members of the syntelice, praying for relief from the oppressive burdens which fell upon them according to the former law. It was the same class, too, who, for the same reason, were in required of them by the old law fled for protection against the apostoleis. These officers, ten in number, constituted a kind of naval board for the enforcement of..."
