§ 21. keep our hands … revenues: a reference to the distributions of Festival-Money (see Third Olynthiac, with Introduction and notes).
contributions of the allies. This interpretation seems on the whole better warranted than 'contributions promised to Diopeithes'.
§ 24. I consent to any penalty: lit. *'I assess my own penalty at anything'—a metaphor from the practice of the law-courts, which allowed a convicted prisoner to propose an alternative penalty to that suggested by the prosecutor.
Erythraeans: Erythrae was on the coast of Asia Minor, opposite Chios.
§ 25. benevolences: the same word as was used of the forced contributions levied by English kings.
§ 27. surrendering: i.e. to his soldiers, to be plundered (if the phrase is meant to convey anything but a vague accusation).
§ 28. wax-tablet: i.e. a summons.
so many ships. The critics of Diopeithes must have proposed the sending of a definite force to control him.
§ 29. a dispatch-boat: lit. 'the Paralus'. This ship, and the Salaminia, were the two vessels regularly employed on public errands.
spitefulness: i.e. towards Diopeithes.