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ἥκειν...κόπτειν The oblique of ἧκον καὶ δὴ ἔκοπτον: ‘He said that the next day he was there [ἧκον=I came promptly or punctually], and was in the act of knocking at the door’: καὶ δή=‘and even now’. ἆρά γε σέ, κ.τ.λ. ‘Are you the visitor whom the company here expect? Well, one ought not to reject such friends — and with these words he was gone’. οἵδε — Andocides and the others who were already at the house of Leogoras: σέ, Diocleides. Acc. to D.'s story, the father of Andoc. gives him a parting hint not to reject the overtures about to be made to him by the conspirators. — ἀπώλλυε, ‘sought to ruin’.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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