[265] _E.g._, _de Leg._, § 147. His esteem for his mother is expressed, _ibid._, § 148. [266] _de Leg._, § 152. [267] p. 178. [268] _Ctes._, § 218. [269] Cf. the frequent use of δεινός and δεινῶς—δεινὴ ἀπαιδευσία, ἀναισχυντία; δεινῶς σχετλιάζειν, ἀσχημονεῖν, ἀγνοεῖν, etc., and compounds such as ὑπεραγανακτῶ, ὑπεραισχύνομαι. [270] _E.g._ the fine passage about Thebes, _infra_, p. 186. [271] The speech of Lysias against Eratosthenes, for instance, contains many complicated sentences which are unnecessarily obscure. [272] ὁρώντων φρονούντων βλεπόντων ὑμῶν. _Ctes._, § 94. [273] Cf. his frequent references to his speeches, _supra_, p. 177. [274] _E.g._ _de Leg._, § 183, τοὺς εἰς τὸν μέλλοντ’ αὐτῷ χρόνον ἀντεροῦντας. Blass, vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 232, notes that there is more consistent care on this point in the _de Legatione_ than in the other two speeches. [275] _Ctes._, § 99. [276] _Ibid._, § 78. [277] _de Leg._, § 81. [278] Cf. _Ctes._, § 198, ὅστις μὲν οὖν ἐν τῇ τιμήσει τὴν ψῆφον αἰτεῖ, τὴν ὀργὴν τὴν ὑμετέραν παραιτεῖται, ὅστις δ’ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ λόγῳ τὴν ψῆφον αἰτεῖ ὅρκον αἰτεῖ, νόμον αἰτεῖ, δημοκρατίαν αἰτεῖ, ὧν οὔτε αἰτῆσαι οὐδὲν ὅσιον οὔτ’ αἰτηθέντα ἑτέρῳ δοῦναι. [279] _E.g._ iambics, _Ctes._, § 239, ἃ σωφρονῶν ὁ δῆμος οὐκ ἐδέξατο; and _de Leg._, § 66, μίαν δὲ νύκτα διαλιπὼν συνηγόρουν, etc.; anapaestic effect, _ibid._, 223, ἀεὶ τὸ παρὸν λυμαινόμενος, τὸ δὲ μέλλον κατεπαγγελλόμενος; and a curious combination, _ibid._, 91, ἁπάντων μετασχὼν τῶν πόνων τῇ πόλει, ⏑––|⏑––|–⏑–|–⏑–. [280] _Ctes._, § 135. [281] _de Leg._, §§ 110, 21. [282] _Ctes._, §§ 192-193. [283] _Ctes._, §§ 133-136. [284] _Ctes._, §§ 99-100. [285] Dem., _de Cor._, §§ 129, 259. [286] _Ctes._, §§ 172-173. [287] _de Leg._, §§ 106-107. [288] _de Leg._, §§ 34-35. [289] _Ctes._, § 212, οὐ κεφαλὴν ἀλλὰ πρόσοδον κέκτηται. The play upon words is not easy to reproduce: κεφαλή, of course, suggests κεφάλαιον, ‘principal,’ or ‘capital,’ while πρόσοδος is ‘income’ or ‘revenue.’ [290] _de Falsa Leg._, § 339. [291] Aesch., _de Leg._, § 1. [292] _La Litt. Grecque_, iv. 643, with reference particularly to _Ctes._, § 133 (quoted above, p. 186) and §§ 152 _sqq._ [293] _E.g._ on Demosthenes, quoted _supra_, pp. 187-188. [294] _de Sublim._, ch. xxiv., οὐ γέλωτα κινεῖ μᾶλλον ἢ καταγελᾶται. [295] Mommsen (Book v., ch. xii. pp. 609-610, Eng. ed. of 1887) could write of Cicero: ‘Cicero had no conviction and no passion; he was nothing but an advocate, and not a good one.’ ... ‘If there is anything wonderful in the case, it is in truth not the orations but the admiration which they excited.’ [296] _E.g._, in particular, §§ 171-176, partly quoted _supra_, p. 188. [297] Quoted _supra_, p. 185. [298] _Frogs_, 892, αἰθήρ, ἐμὸν βόσκημα, καὶ γλώττης στροφίγξ, καὶ ξύνεσι, etc. [299] Aesch. (_Ctes._, § 171) says only ἀφικνεῖται εἰς Βόσπορον, which is ambiguous, as there were several Βόσποροι. The fact that he calls the woman Σκυθίς seems to prove that he meant the Crimea.