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Given that even the Plataians were rigorously scrutinized, it would be terrible to let someone like Neaira go unpunished.

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οὔκουν δεινόν: “is it, then, not an outrageous thing?” signalling the expected pivot to Neaira’s case

ἐφ’ οἷς: “on what terms”

τὴν δέ: “but this woman,” emphatic, object of ἐάσετε below (“let go unpunished”)

πεπορνευμένην: “has prostituted herself” (mid.-pass.). Note that here, for the first time, Apollodoros uses a verb related to the noun πορνή rather than the less insulting ἑταίρα.

ὀλιγώρως: “negligently”; modifies, along with αἰσχρῶς, the verb ἐάσετε

οἱ πρόγονοι: i.e., the ancestors of this woman

ἀστήν: take as a predicate

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ἐν Θετταλίᾳ…καὶ Μαγνησίᾳ: “in Thessaly and Magnesia”

Λαρισαίου: “of Larissa” (this is the same Simos we learned of in §24)

Μηδείου: “[son] of Medeios”

ἐν Χίῳ…ἐν Ἰωνίᾳ: “on Chios and in Ionia”

Κρητός < Κρής

ὑφ’ ἑτέροις: ὑπό = “under the power/control of”

τῷ διδόντι: “the man who gives (money to her)”

τοῖς χρωμένοις: “those who have (intimate) dealings with her,” i.e., her sexual partners

εἶτα...ψηφιεῖσθε: ”and so, will you really vote?” εἶτα introduces an indignant rhetorical question expecting the answer “of course not!” See LSJ II.

ὑπὸ πάντων: take this with ἐγωσμένην

περίοδον: accusative following the idea of motion implied by εἰργασμένην (that is, she moved around while working): see Kapparis 1999: 402.

εἰργασμένην: participle in indirect statement initiated by ἐγνωσμένην. The rhetorician and critic Hermogenes of Tarsus (160–230 CE) says that the phrase ἀπὸ τριῶν τρυπημάτων τὴν ἐργασίαν πεποιῆσθαι (“doing the job from three orifices”) was obelized (marked as inauthentic) in this speech by some grammarians, presumably for being too obscene (Περὶ ἰδεῶν p. 325, ed. Rabe 1917); in fact, none of our manuscripts include it. Some scholars (e.g., Carey 1992: 141–42) think that this language was too explicit to have been used by Apollodoros; Kapparis 1999: 402–5, citing further evidence for the use of this expression, believes that it is genuine and was found either here (as suggested by Blass) or elsewhere in the speech.

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διαπεπρᾶχθαι...εἶναι: “that you have done...that you are”; infin. in indirect statement after φήσετε, with the same subject 

ἔνοχοι: “liable to the imputation of/penalty for” (+ dat.); predicate adjective agreeing with understood “you (pl.)”

πάντας: accusative subject of πυθέσθαι

τὰ μὲν ἀδικήματα ταύτης ἦν, ἡ δ᾽ ἀμέλεια τῆς πόλεως: “the misdeeds were this woman’s, the city’s the negligence,” i.e., the misdeeds belonged to this woman (alone), and the city’s misdeed was merely negligence. ταύτης…πόλεως: both are possessive genitives.

οἱ μέν…οἱ δέ: ”some…others”

τῷ δ᾽ ἔργῳ: “in practice,” “practically speaking”

εἶχον ὅ τι χρήσαιντο αὐτῇ: “did not have a way of dealing with her.” For this idiom, see §98.

ἔχετε: supply Neaira as object: “have got her in your hands”