[482] In such extravagances as ἡ τῶν ἐκ προνοίας φόνων ἀξιόπιστος οὖσα βουλὴ τὸ δίκαιον καὶ τἀληθὲς εὑρεῖν (Demos., § 6). Cf. also §§ 12, 23, 59, 110, and elsewhere.
[483] Demos., § 28; cf. §§ 10, 27, 46, 76, etc.
[484] Demos., §§ 18-21 (thirty-six lines without a real stop); Philocles, §§ 1-3 (twenty-three lines).
[485] θηρίον, μιαρός, μιαρὸν θήριον, κάθαρμα, γόης, κατάρατος, κλέπτης, προδότης, ἐπιωρκηκώς, δωρόδοκος, μισθωτός, καταπτυστός are culled without any special diligence from his elegant repertory.
[486] Aristog., §§ 1, 2, 9-10.
[487] Demos., § 24, description of Thebes, from Aeschines. See Weil, les Harangues de Démosthène, p. 338, note on Philippic, iii., § 41, and Din., Aristog., § 24, which is borrowed from it: ‘Il est à son modèle ce que la bière est au vin.’ (This barley-beer was a barbarian drink.)
[488] E.g. the passage about Conon’s son, Demos., § 14, used again in Phil., § 17.
[489] Dion., de Din., ch. viii.; Hermogenes, περὶ ἰδεῶν, B, p. 384, iv.
[490] The general decline of taste reacted on literary style, cf. infra pp. [309-10].
[491] Arist., Eth. Nic., x. 5. 4, οἱ τραγηματίζοντες. Demos., de Cor., cf. supra, p. [249].