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τὴν μὲν οὖν κρίσιν, κ.τ.λ. ‘Now you must not suppose that in this trial my real adversary is the man who has instituted the claim; it is Diocles of Phlya, surnamed Orestes. For it is he who has suborned (παρασκευάσας) the claimant to vex us with these proceedings, because he himself is withholding (ἀποστερῶν) from us the property which our grandfather bequeathed’. — Isaeus wrote two speeches, now lost, againt this man, κατὰ Διοκλέους ὕβρεως (perh. in the γραφή noticed below, § 41) and πρὸς Διοκλέα περὶ χωρίου, fragg. VIII. IX. Sauppe O. A. II. 230. — Ὀρέστην: a nickname for any violent character, borrowed from the robber mentioned by Aristophanes (with an allusion to the orestes of Eurip.), Acharn. 1166, εἶτα κατάξειέ τις αὐτοῦ μεθύων τῆς κεφαλῆς Ὀρέστης μαινόμενος. (Attic Orators, II. 328.)
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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