§ 290. Hegesilaus was one of the generals sent to Euboea to help
Plutarchus; cf. Speech on the Peace, § 5 n. He was accused of abetting
Plutarchus in the deception which he practised upon Athens. For
Thrasybulus, cf. § 277.
the primary question: i.e. of the guilt or innocence of the defendant. If he was pronounced guilty, the question of sentence (or damages) had to be argued and decided separately.
§ 295. claim to be: cf. n. on § 259.
churning the butter ([Greek: etyrheue]): i.e. concocting the plot. (For the metaphor cf. Aristophanes, Knights 479.)
§ 299. Zeus and Dione. These names show that the oracles referred to were probably given at Dodona.
§ 303. oath of the young soldiers. When the young Athenian came of age, he received a shield and spear in the temple of Aglaurus, and swore to defend his country and to uphold its constitution (cf. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, § 76).
§ 314. keeping step with Pythocles, who was a tall man, while Aeschines was short.
§ 326. Drymus and Panactum were on the border between Boeotia and Attica. Nothing else is known of the expedition.
§ 332. Chares. See nn. on Philippic I. §§ 24, 46; Olynthiac II. § 28, and Introductions.
§ 333. of one of whom, &c.: i.e. of Philip (see § 111 ff., and Introd. to Speech on the Peace).