Note 377 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 3)

Aeschines, Orat. in Timarch. edit. Reiske, p. 139. μὴ Δημοσθένην καλουμενον, ἀλλὰ Βάταλον,—p. 142. ἐπεὶ καὶ περὶ τῆς Δημοσθένους ἐπωνυμίας, οὐ κακῶς ὑπὸ τῆς φήμης, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὑπὸ τῆς τίτθης, Βάταλος προσαγορεύεται, ἐξ ἀνανδρίας τινὸς καὶ κιναιδεῖας ἐνεγκάμενος τοῦνομα· εἰ γάρ τις σου τὰ κομψὰ ταῦτα χλανίσκια περιελόμενος, καὶ τοὺς μαλακοὺς χιτωνίσκους, ἐν οἷς τοὺς κατὰ τῶν φίλων λόγους γράφεις, περιενέγκας δοίη εἰς τὰς χεῖρας τῶν δικαστῶν, οἴομαι ἂν αὐτοὺς, εἴ τις μὴ προειπὼν τοῦτο ποιήσειεν, ἀπορῆσαι, εἴ τε ἀνδρὸς, εἴ τε γυναικὸς εἰλήφασιν ἐσθῆτα. (called not Demosthenes, but Batalus, i.e. Pathic.—Now with regard to Demosthenes’ surname, he is excellently called by common report, though not by his nurse, Batalus—Pathic, having got the name from a certain unmanliness and cinaedism. For if a man should strip you of these elegant robes you wear and your womanish tunics, clad in which you indite your speeches against your friends, and bring them up and put them in the hands of the jurymen, I suppose, if he should do so without any previous explanation, the latter would be quite unable to tell whether it were a man’s or a woman’s clothes they had got hold of.)—a passage which affords the best commentary to what is stated in the text both here and on previous pages.