I’m unsure about the following, and fearful that I may have gone down a rabbit-hole in my effort to square up the translation. Starting at ἕως, I give my rationale with the trial translation:
so far as the-things-done [εἰργάσθαι, infinitive with substantive force, neuter, plural, accusative/nominative, unsure about case ]
by the defendant [ φεύγοντι, dative of the agent]
seem [ δόξῃ, singular verb to agree with neuter plural εἰργάσθαι]
worthy [ἄξια, neuter, plural to agree with the infinitive]
I therefore, gentlemen jurors, deemed the accusations to be enough: for I think one needs to be accusing up to the point at which it seems to the defendant to have committed things worthy of death.
I’d say εἰργάσθαι is perfect passive here, not middle as bedwere apparently takes it. So I agree with you, Hugh, in taking τῷφεύγοντι as dative of agent. It’s the jury that Lysias is out to persuade that the defendant deserves the death penalty, no matter what the defendant might think.
Agreed. “until things worthy of death appear to have been done by the defendant”. (Goodwin 1186. “the dative sometimes denotes the agent with the perfect and pluperfect passive, rarely with other tenses”). It’s natural to assume initially that δοξη τω φευγοντι go together, but they don’t. And maybe make μεχρι τουτου νομιζω a present perfect = “up to this moment I have been thinking”
No, μεχρι τουτου νομιζω doesn’t mean “up to this moment I have been thinking.” μεχρι τουτου merely anticipates the ἕως clause, while νομιζω is a straightforward present (“I think” or “in my view”), as often. He hasn’t changed his mind!
Sorry Hugh we’re not quite done yet. As perhaps you now understand, εἰργάσθαι does not have substantive force but is simply an infinitive governed by δόξῃ. θανάτου, emphatic by its fronted position, is a regular genitive with ἄξια, which is nominative. There’s really nothing particularly difficult about the syntax or the word order, but (as always with Lysias) it’s worth seeing how it’s all constructed, smooth yet pointed.
Yes, θανατου αξια “deserving-of-death (things),” “death-penalty-worthy deeds”—neut.pl. adjective without article as in e.g. κακα ειργασθαι δοκει “crimes seem to have been committed.”