Chapter 7

πάνυ μὲν οὖν: certainly, by all means (S. 2901a).

οὗτος: "hey there" (use of the nom. demonstrative οὗτος as a term of address: S. 1288a).

ὁ τὴν πήραν ἐξηρτημένος, ὁ ἐξωμίας: "the one equipped with a leather pouch, the sleeveless one." The perf. pass. part. of ἐξαρτάω takes an acc. rei and means "having a thing hung on one" or "equipped with a thing." As this is an exclamation about a person, the nominative can be substituted for the vocative when the subject is not specified (S. 1288).

ὁ κῆρυξ: "hey auctioneer" (another instance of a nominative instead of a vocative in an exclamatory phrase: S. 1288).

βίον ἀνδρικόν: "a manly philosophy." As noted above (sect. 1), βίος can mean "philosophy" presumably because it is related to a way of life.

πῶς ἔφης σύ;: "what's that you were saying?" (lit. "how were you saying (that)?") πῶς is used in dialogues when requesting explanation (πῶς LSJ I.A.b).

ἀνδραποδισμοῦ: "on a charge of kidnapping" (gen. of the crime/charge: S. 1375).

προκαλέσηται: subjunctive continuing the fear clause in primary sequence begun with δέδιας μὴ δικάσηται (fear clause: S. 2221).

Ἄρειον πάγον: the Areopagus was a culturally important hill near the Athenian Acropolis associated with an influential council of older Athenian citizens. While it lost much of its political authority in the fifth century BCE, the Areopagus council continued to investigate charges of corruption and they are here invoked as a body that might look unkindly upon the selling of a free man.

οὐδὲν αὐτῷ μέλει τῆς πράσεως: "he has no concern about the sale" (οὐδέν adverbial acc. expressing measure or degree: S. 1609).

τί: "How?" or “In what way?

πλὴν εἰ μή σκαπανέα...ἀποδεικτέον: "unless one made him a digger..." πλὴν εἰ μή means "unless, except that" (S. 2966a; see also Montanari πλήν 2.a). The pleonastic or redundant μή is there to confirm or emphasize the already negative word πλήν (see S. 2753).

ἀποδεικτέον: impersonal verbal construction (usually neut. nom. ending in -τέον) that functions as an active verb and takes an object in whatever case the verb ordinarily takes. This construction usually conveys a notion of obligation but here seems more to function like a Latin impersonal passive where the action is stressed over the agent (e.g., ventum est ad forum). For the impersonal active verbal construction in -τέον, see S. 2152.

οὐ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καί: "not only (that), but also" (S. 2764).

ἐπιστήσῃς: aor. subj. 2nd. sg. act. from ἐφίστημι. Here the verb takes a direct object and another accusative in apposition: set up someone (acc.) as something (acc.).

πολὺ πιστοτέρῳ χρήσῃ τῶν κυνῶν: "you will find (him) much more trustworthy than dogs." πολύ is an adverbial acc. used with the comparative to express the degree or measure of difference; this is more common in Attic prose than using a dative of manner to express the degree of difference: see S. 1513 and 1514.

κύων αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ ὄνομα: "he is even referred to as a dog." αὐτῷ is a dat. of possessor (S. 1476), a common use with any form of εἰμί (ἐστι is to be supplied here as often). ὄνομά μοί ἐστι is used as the passive of ὀνομάζω (S. 1478).

τίνα τὴν ἄσκησιν: "what way of life...?" (τίνα interrog. adj.: S. 1262).

κάλλιον γὰρ οὕτω ποιεῖν: "for it is better to do (it) in this way." Supply ἐστι (as often) for this predicate nominative construction (the subject is the infinitive and the adjective is neuter because infinitives are considered neuter singular verbal nouns). See S. 1047.

δέδια τὸ σκυθρωπὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ κατηφές: "I fear his sullen and downcast (expression.)" Supply πρόσωπον which can mean "expression" or "countenance" (LSJ πρόσωπον A.II) as well as "face." Note that the verb δέδια first governs a simple direct object and then introduces a fear clause with the subjunctive (S. 2221 and 2225).

διῆρται: perf. mid.-pass. indic. from διαίρω.

συνέσπακε: perf. act. indic. from συσπάω.

ἀπειλητικόν τι καὶ χολῶδες: "in a rather threatening and menacing way" (adverbial acc. expressing manner: S. 1608).

δέδιθι: perf. imperat. 2nd sg. act. from δέδια (perf. with pres. meaning).