[332] Plut., _Dem._, ch. ix., παράβακχον. [333] ἐνθουιῶντα. Cf. Aristophanes, _Clouds_, 194: μὰ γῆν, μὰ παγίδας, μὰ νεφέλας, μὰ δίκτυα. [334] Notably the caricatures of Aeschines’ private life and family history in the _de Corona_, §§ 129-130, 260. Mr. Pickard-Cambridge makes it clear that the habitual members of the law-courts would be of a lower average socially than the ecclesia. The pay in either case was not enough to attract any but the unemployed, but whereas members of the leisured classes would have sufficient motives for attending the ecclesia, and well-to-do business-men might sacrifice valuable time unselfishly for the good of the State, there would be little inducement to such people to endure the wearisome routine of the law-courts (see _Demosthenes_, ch. iii.). [335] _E.g._ _Conon_, § 4. [336] _de Cor._, § 263. [337] _de Falsa Leg._, § 148. [338] _Midias_, § 91. [339] _Ibid._, § 105. [340] On the other hand he often apologizes for metaphors by ὣσπερ or οἷον—ἦν τοῦθ’ ὣσπερ ἐμπόδισμά τι τῷ Φιλίππῳ—though ἐμπόδισμα is probably as natural a form of expression as our ‘obstacle.’ [341] _de Falsa Leg._, § 275. [342] I _Phil._, § 45; cf. τεθνάναι τῷ φόβῳ Θηβαίους, _de Falsa Leg._, § 81. [343] _de Cor._, § 296. [344] _de Cor._, § 169. [345] _de Cor._, § 208. [346] _de Thucyd._, ch. 53. [347] _Against Conon_, §§ 3-5. [348] _Against Conon_, §§ 8-9. [349] _de Demos._, ch. xv. [350] _Demos._, ch. xxii. [351] _Demos._, chs. liii., liv. So Aeschines, after reading aloud some extracts from Demosthenes, and observing their effect on his hearers, exclaimed, ‘But what if you had heard the brute himself?’ [352] _de Chersoneso_, §§ 69-71, gives an example of a sentence of about twenty-seven lines in the Teubner edition. [353] _Timocrates_, § 217, οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἂν ὄφελοσ εἴη is a case in point—(⏑⏑⏑⏑––); in this instance no other arrangement of the words was possible; οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἂν εἴη ὄφελος would give a harsh hiatus. Cf. also _First Olynthiac_, § 27, ἡλίκα γ’ ἐστὶ τὰ διάφορ’ ἐνθάδ’ ἢ ’κεῖ πολεμεῖν, where five shorts appear in sequence. [354] _E.g._ _de Falsa Leg._, § 11, διεξιὼν ἡλίκα τὴν Ἕλλαδα πᾶσαν, οὐχὶ τὰς ἰδίας ἀδικοῦσι μόνον πατρίδας οἱ δωροδοκοῦντες. The position of ἀδικοῦσι is peculiar, but the sentence already contains a preponderance of short syllables, and any other arrangement would give more of them together: _e.g._ the more natural orders τὰς ἰδίας μόνον πατρίδας ἀδικοῦσι (⏒⏑⏑⏑⏑–⏑) or ἰδίας μόνον ἀδικοῦσι πατρίδας (⏑⏑–⏑⏑⏑⏑–⏑⏒⏑⏑). [355] Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 8. 4. [356] Super alta vectus Attis celeri rate maria, etc. The ending with five short syllables gives an impression of headlong speed. [357] Cf. the ‘spondaic’ hymn, Ζεῦ πάντων ἀρχά, πάντων ἅγητορ, Ζεῦ σοὶ σπένδω ταύταν ὕμνων ἀρχάν. [358] Croiset, _Hist. de la Litt. Gr._, tome iv., pp. 552-553. [359] See _ad hoc_, Croiset, iv. 553. 1. [360] _de Symmor._, §§ 24-26. [361] _Third Olynthiac_, §§ 10-11. [362] Quoted above, p. 230.