¹ The word gave its name to the Helot's festival at Sparta. See the fragment of Epilyeus (Meineke Frag. Com. Graec. vol. ii. p. 887) beginning In Eur. El. 810 ff, Aegisthus first kills the victim with a and then Orestes flays and joints it with a Dorian and asks for a large Phthian to cut open the brisket. When Demosthenes called Phocion he did not mean that Phocion was the ‘pruner’ (as the word is generally rendered) of his speeches. He meant that the blunt comments of Phocion were a ‘knock-down blow’ to his reasoned eloquence. The word for ‘pruning’ would have been (Plat. Rep. i. 353). Of all orators of all times Demosthenes is the most completely free from redundancy. His speeches admit of no pruning.

^{page 139 note 2} Olymp. vi. 82.