Πρὸς τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων
§1 Δημοσθένης τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δημῷ χαίρειν. ἦλθεν ἐπιστολὴ παρʼ Ἀντιφίλου πρὸς τοὺς τῶν συμμάχων συνέδρους, τοῖς μὲν βουλομένοις ἀγαθὰ προσδοκᾶν ἱκανῶς γεγραμμένη, τοῖς δʼ ὑπηρετοῦσιν Ἀντιπάτρῳ πολλοὺς καὶ δυσχερεῖς ἀπολείπουσα λόγους, οἳ παραλαβόντες τὰ παρʼ Ἀντιπάτρου γράμματα πρὸς Δείναρχον εἰς Κόρινθον ἐλθόντα, ἁπάσας τὰς ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ πόλεις τοιούτων λόγων ἔπλησαν οἵων εἰς κεφαλὴν αὐτοῖς τρέψειαν οἱ θεοί.
§2 ἀφικομένου δὲ τοῦ νῦν ἥκοντος μετὰ τοῦ παρʼ ἐμοῦ φέροντος γράμματα παρὰ Πολεμαίστου πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἐπίνικον, ἄνδρʼ ὑμῖν εὔνουν καὶ ἐμοὶ φίλον, κἀκείνου πρὸς ἔμʼ ἀγαγόντος, ἀκούσαντί μοι ἔλεγεν ἐδόκει πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτὸν ἀποστεῖλαι, ὅπως πάντα σαφῶς ἀκούσαντες τὰ ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ γεγονότα τοῦ περὶ τὴν μάχην παραγεγενημένου τό τʼ εἰς τὸ παρὸν θαρρῆτε, καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν θεῶν θελόντων ὡς βούλεσθʼ ἕξειν ὑπολαμβάνητε. εὐτυχεῖτε.
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Rennie, OCT, 1931 · 1931
The Editor

William Rennie (1884–1952) was a Scottish classical scholar who produced the Oxford Classical Text of Demosthenes in three volumes (1921–1931). His edition replaced the 19th-century OCT and provided a more rigorous treatment of the manuscript tradition. Rennie was known for his careful, methodical approach to textual criticism and his thorough collation of the principal Demosthenes manuscripts.

About This Edition

Rennie's OCT of Demosthenes (3 vols., 1921–1931) was the standard critical text for much of the 20th century. Like all OCT editions, it provides a clean text with a selective apparatus criticus at the foot of each page, recording the most important manuscript variants and conjectures. Rennie's approach is moderately conservative, preferring the transmitted text where defensible. For the most studied speeches (notably the Crown speech), Rennie's text has been supplemented or supplanted by more recent commentaries with their own textual discussions, but for the Demosthenic corpus as a whole his OCT remains the most convenient critical edition.

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