§10καὶ ὅτι τύχῃ μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ δικαίῳ κρίνεται τὰ παρʼ ὑμῖν, ὥστε λυσιτελεῖν μοι μίκρʼ ἀναλώσαντι μεγάλων ἐγκλημάτων ἀπαλλαγῆναι μᾶλλον ἢ μηδὲν ἀποτείσαντι κινδυνεύειν περὶ τηλικούτων.
and that verdicts in your courts are decided by chance rather than by justice, so that it was more advantageous for me, by spending a small amount, to be rid of great accusations than, by paying nothing, to run a risk concerning such serious matters.
τί δʼ ἂν ὑμῖν τὰ πολλὰ καθʼ ἕκαστον διηγοίμην;
But why should I relate many details to you?
οὐδὲν γὰρ παρέλιπον τῶν εἰθισμένων περὶ τῶν τοιούτων λέγεσθαι.
For they omitted nothing of what is usually said on such subjects.
τελευτῶν δʼ οὖν ἐπείσθην, ἅπαντα γὰρ εἰρήσεται τἀληθῆ πρὸς ὑμᾶς, δοῦναι τούτῳ διακοσίας δραχμάς.
In the end, therefore, I was persuaded—for all the truth shall be told to you—to give this man two hundred drachmas.
ἵνα δὲ μὴ πάλιν ἐξείη συκοφαντεῖν αὐτῷ, δίαιταν ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς ἐπετρέψαμεν Νικομάχῳ Βατῆθεν. ""
And so that it might not be permitted for him to play the sycophant again, we submitted the arbitration, on specified terms, to Nicomachus of Bate.
§11τὸ μὲν τοίνυν πρῶτον ἐνέμεινε τοῖς ὡμολογημένοις, ὕστερον δʼ ἐπιβουλεύσας μετὰ Ξενοτίμου, τοῦ τοὺς νόμους διαφθείροντος καὶ τὰ δικαστήρια δεκάζοντος καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς λυμαινομένου καὶ πάντων κακῶν αἰτίου, λαγχάνει μοι δίκην μυρίων δραχμῶν.
Now, at first indeed he abided by the agreements, but later, having plotted with Xenotimus—the man who corrupts the laws, bribes the law courts, ruins the magistrates, and is the cause of all evils—he brought a lawsuit against me for ten thousand drachmas.
προβαλλομένου δʼ ἐμοῦ μάρτυρα, ὡς οὐκ εἰσαγώγιμος ἦν ἡ δίκη διαίτης γεγενημένης, ἐκείνῳ μὲν οὐκ ἐπεξῆλθεν, §12εἰδὼς ὅτι, εἰ μὴ μεταλάβοι τὸ πέμπτον μέρος τῶν ψήφων, τὴν ἐπωβελίαν ὀφλήσει, πείσας δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν πάλιν τὴν αὐτὴν δίκην ἐγράψατο, ὡς ἐν τοῖς πρυτανείοις μόνον κινδυνεύσων.
When I presented a witness to show that the lawsuit was not admissible since an arbitration had taken place, he did not proceed against that witness, knowing that if he did not receive a fifth part of the votes, he would owe the obol-tax; but having persuaded the magistrates, he filed the same lawsuit again, with the intention of risking only the court deposits.
ἀπορῶν δʼ ὅ τι χρησαίμην τοῖς κακοῖς, ἡγησάμην εἶναι κράτιστον ἐξ ἴσου καταστήσαντʼ ἀμφοτέροις τὸν κίνδυνον εἰσελθεῖν εἰς ὑμᾶς.
At a loss as to how to deal with these troubles, I thought it best to enter court before you after making the danger equal for both of us.
καὶ τὰ μὲν γενόμενα ταῦτʼ ἐστίν.
And these are the things that happened.
§13πυνθάνομαι δὲ Καλλίμαχον οὐ μόνον περὶ τῶν ἐγκλημάτων διανοεῖσθαι ψευδῆ λέγειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν δίαιταν μέλλειν ἔξαρνον εἶναι καὶ παρεσκευάσθαι λέγειν τοιούτους λόγους, ὡς οὐκ ἄν ποτʼ ἐπέτρεψε Νικομάχῳ δίαιταν, ὃν ἠπίστατο πάλαι χρώμενον ἡμῖν, καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἐικὸς ἦν αὐτὸν ἀντὶ μυρίων δραχμῶν διακοσίας ἐθελῆσαι λαβεῖν.
And I understand that Callimachus intends not only to lie about the accusations, but also to deny the arbitration and is prepared to say such things as that he would never have submitted the arbitration to Nicomachus, whom he knew to have long been close to us, and that it was not likely that he would have been willing to accept two hundred drachmas instead of ten thousand.
§14ὑμεῖς δʼ ἐνθυμεῖσθε πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι τὴν δίαιταν οὐκ ἀμφισβητοῦντες ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς ἐπετρέψαμεν, ὥστʼ οὐδὲν ἄτοπον ἐποίησεν, εἰ Νικόμαχον εἵλετο διαιτητήν, ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον εἰ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ὡμολογηκὼς περὶ τοῦ διαιτητοῦ διεφέρετο.
But you must bear in mind first that we submitted the arbitration not to dispute the case but on specified terms, so that he did nothing strange if he chose Nicomachus as arbitrator, but rather it would have been much stranger if, having agreed on the facts, he had disputed about the arbitrator.
ἔπειτʼ ὀφειλομένων μὲν αὐτῷ μυρίων δραχμῶν οὐκ εἰκὸς ἦν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ δυοῖν μναῖν ποιήσασθαι τὴν διαλλαγήν· ἀδίκως δʼ αἰτιώμενον καὶ συκοφαντοῦντα οὐδὲν θαυμαστὸν τοσοῦτον ἐθελῆσαι λαβεῖν.
Next, if ten thousand drachmas had been owed to him, it was not likely that he would have made the settlement for two minae; but since he was accusing unjustly and acting as a sycophant, there is nothing wonderful in his wishing to accept so much.
ἔτι δʼ, εἰ μεγάλʼ ἐγκαλῶν ὀλίγʼ ἐπράξατο, οὐ τούτῳ τοῦτο τεκμήριόν ἐστιν, ὡς ἡ δίαιτα οὐ γέγονεν, ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἡμῖν, ὡς καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν οὐ δικαίως ἐνεκάλεσεν.
Furthermore, if, while making great accusations, he exacted little, this is not a proof for him that the arbitration did not take place, but rather much more for us that he did not accuse justly in the first place.
§15θαυμάζω δʼ εἰ αὑτὸν μὲν ἱκανὸν γνῶναι νομίζει ὅτι οὐκ εἰκὸς ἀντὶ μυρίων δραχμῶν διακοσίας ἐθελῆσαι λαβεῖν, ἐμὲ δʼ οὐκ ἂν οἴεται τοῦτʼ ἐξευρεῖν, εἴπερ ἠβουλόμην ψευδῆ λέγειν, ὅτι πλέον ἔδει φάσκειν τούτων δεδωκέναι.
And I wonder if, while he thinks himself competent to judge that it was not likely that he would have wished to accept two hundred drachmas instead of ten thousand, he does not think that I would have discovered this, if indeed I had wished to tell lies, that I ought to have claimed to have given more than this.
ἀξιῶ δʼ, ὅσον περ ἂν τούτῳ σημεῖον ἦν ὡς ἡ δίαιτα οὐ γέγονεν, ἑλόντι τὰ διαμαρτυρηθέντα, τοσοῦτον ἐμοὶ γενέσθαι τεκμήριον ὡς ἀληθῆ λέγω περὶ αὐτῆς, ἐπειδὴ τῷ μάρτυρι φανερός ἐστιν οὐδʼ ἐπεξελθεῖν ἀξιώσας.
And I claim that, just as much as it would have been a proof for him that the arbitration did not take place if he had convicted the witness for his testimony, so much should it be a proof for me that I speak the truth about it, since it is manifest that he did not even deign to proceed against the witness.
§16ἡγοῦμαι δʼ, εἰ μήθʼ ἡ δίαιτα ἐγεγόνει μήτε τῶν πεπραγμένων ἦσαν μάρτυρες, ἔδει δʼ ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων σκοπεῖν, οὐδʼ οὕτω χαλεπῶς ἂν ὑμᾶς γνῶναι τὰ δίκαια.
And I believe that, even if neither the arbitration had taken place nor there were witnesses of the events, and it were necessary to judge from probabilities, not even so would you find it difficult to decide what is just.
εἰ μὲν γὰρ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀδικεῖν ἐτόλμων, εἰκότως ἄν μου κατεγιγνώσκετε καὶ περὶ τοῦτον ἐξαμαρτάνειν· νῦν δʼ οὐδένα φανήσομαι τῶν πολιτῶν οὔτε χρήμασι ζημιώσας οὔτε περὶ τοῦ σώματος εἰς κίνδυνον καταστήσας, οὔτʼ ἐκ μὲν τῶν μετεχόντων τῆς πολιτείας ἐξαλείψας, εἰς δὲ τὸν μετὰ Λυσάνδρου κατάλογον ἐγγράψας.
For if indeed I dared to wrong others as well, you would naturally have condemned me for doing wrong to this man too; but as it is, I shall be shown to have fined no citizen in money, nor to have brought anyone into danger concerning his life, nor to have erased anyone from those participating in the franchise, nor to have registered anyone in the list with Lysander.
§17καίτοι πολλοὺς ἐπῆρεν ἡ τῶν τριάκοντα πονηρία τοιαῦτα ποιεῖν· οὐ γὰρ ὅτι τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας ἐκόλαζον, ἀλλʼ ἐνίοις καὶ προσέταττον ἐξαμαρτάνειν.
And yet the wickedness of the Thirty incited many to do such things; for they not only punished those who did wrong, but even commanded some to commit offenses.
ἐγὼ μὲν τοίνυν οὐδʼ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκείνων ἀρχῆς οὐδὲν εὑρεθήσομαι τοιοῦτον ἐργασάμενος· οὗτος δʼ ἀδικηθῆναί φησιν, ὅτʼ ἐξεβέβληντο μὲν οἱ τριάκοντα, ὁ δὲ Πειραιεὺς ἦν κατειλημμένος, ἐκράτει δʼ ὁ δῆμος, περὶ διαλλαγῶν δʼ ἦσαν οἱ λόγοι.
I, indeed, shall not be found to have done any such thing even under their rule; but this man says he was wronged when the Thirty had been expelled, and the Piraeus had been occupied, and the democracy was in control, and the negotiations for reconciliation were going on.