§39πρὸς δὲ τοὺτοις ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἔξεστιν αὐτῷ, πρὶν ἀποπειραθῆναι τῆς ὑμετὲρας γνώμης, ἁφέντι τὴν δίκην ἀπηλλάχθαι πάντων τῶν πραγμάτων.
Furthermore, even now, before making trial of your opinion, it is possible for him to be rid of all his troubles by dropping the lawsuit.
καίτοι πῶς οὐκ ἄλογόν ἐστιν ἐν τούτῳ τῷ κινδύνῳ ζητεῖν αὐτόν ἐλέου παρʼ ὑμῶν τυγχάνειν, οὗ κύριος αὐτός ἐστι, καὶ εἰς ὃ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν καθίστησι, καὶ ὃ ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἔξεστιν αὐτῷ μὴ κινδυνεύειν; §40ἂν δʼ ἄρα μέμνηται τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας γεγενημένων, ἁξιοῦτε αὐτὸν μὴ ʼκείνων κατηγορεῖν, ὑπὲρ ὧν οὐδεὶς ἀπολογήσεται, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐγὼ τὰ χρήματα εἴληφα διδάσκειν, περὶ οὗπερ ὑμᾶς δεῖ ψηφίζεσθαι, μηδʼ ὡς αὐτός δεινὰ πέπονθεν ἀποφαίνειν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐγὼ πεποίηκα ἐξελέγχειν, παρʼ οὗπερ ἀξιοῖ τἀπολωλότα κομίζεσθαι· §41ἐπεὶ κακῶς γʼ αὑτὸν πράττοντα ἐπιδεῖξαι καὶ πρὸς ἄλλον ὁντινοῦν ἀγωνιζόμενος τῶν πολιτῶν δύναται.
And yet, how is it not unreasonable for him to seek to obtain pity from you in this danger, of which he himself is master, and into which he has placed himself, and in which it is still even now possible for him not to run any risk? If, then, he should mention the events that took place under the oligarchy, demand that he not accuse those things for which no one will make a defense, but show that I have received the money, which is the very thing you must vote on; nor to demonstrate how terribly he himself has suffered, but to prove that I have done it, from whom he claims it is just to recover his lost property. Since he is able to show that he is in a bad state even when litigating against any other citizen whatsoever.
καίτοι χρὴ μέγα παρʼ ὑμῖν δύνασθαι τῶν κατηγοριῶν, οὐχ αἷς ἔξεστι χρῆσθαι καὶ πρὸς τοὺς μηδέν ἡμαρτηκότας, ἀλλʼ ἃς οὐχ οἷ τʼ εἰπεῖν ἀλλʼ ἢ κατὰ τῶν ἠδικηκότων.
And yet, the accusations that ought to have great weight with you are not those which can be used even against those who have done no wrong, but those which cannot be spoken except against the wrongdoers.
πρὸς μὲν οὖν τούτους τοὺς λόγους καὶ ταῦτʼ ἴσως ἀρκέσει καὶ τάχʼ ἀντειπεῖν ἐξέσται. §42ἐνθυμεῖσθε δʼ, εἰ καὶ τῳ δόξω δὶς περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν λέγειν, ὅτι πολλοὶ προσέχουσι ταύτῃ τῇ δίκῃ τὸν νοῦν, οὐ τῶν ἡμετέρων πραγμάτων φροντίζοντες, ἀλλʼ ἡγούμενοι περὶ τῶν συνθηκῶν εἶναι τὴν κρίσιν.
Therefore, regarding these arguments, these remarks will perhaps suffice, and it will soon be possible to answer them. But bear in mind, even if I seem to anyone to speak twice about the same things, that many are paying attention to this lawsuit, not caring for our private affairs, but believing that the judgment is about the treaty.
οὓς ὑμεῖς τὰ δίκαια γνόντες ἀδεῶς οἰκεῖν ἐν τῇ πόλει ποιήσετε· εἰ δὲ μή, πῶς οἴεσθε διακείσεσθαι τοὺς ἐν ἄστει μείναντας, ἤν ὁμοίως ἅπασιν ὀργιζόμενοι φαίνησθε τοῖς μετασχοῦσι τῆς πολιτείας; §43τίνα δὲ γνώμην ἕξειν τοὺς μικρὸν ἁμάρτημα σφίσιν αὐτοῖς συνειδότας, ὅταν ὁρῶσι μηδὲ τοὺς κοσμίως πεπολιτευμένους τῶν δικαίων τυγχάνοντας;
Whom you, by deciding what is just, will cause to dwell in the city without fear; but if not, how do you think those who remained in the city will be disposed, if you appear to be equally angry with all those who took part in the government? And what opinion do you think those will have who are conscious of some small error in themselves, when they see that not even those who have conducted themselves orderly as citizens obtain their rights?
πόσην δὲ χρὴ προσδοκᾶν ἔσεσθαι ταραχήν, ὅταν οἱ μὲν ἐπαρθῶσι συκοφαντεῖν ὡς ὑμῶν αὐτοῖς ἤδη ταὔτʼ ἐγνωκότων, οἱ δὲ δεδίωσι τὴν παροῦσαν πολιτείαν ὡς οὐδεμιᾶς αὐτοῖς ἔτι καταφυγῆς ὑπαρχούσης; §44ἆρʼ οὐκ ἄξιον φοβεῖσθαι μὴ συγχυθέντων τῶν ὅρκων πάλιν εἰς ταὐτὰ καταστῶμεν ἐξ ὧνπερ ἠναγκάσθημεν τὰς συνθήκας ποιήσασθαι;
And how great a disturbance must we expect there to be, when some are encouraged to play the sycophant, on the ground that you have already decided the same things as they, while others dread the present constitution, believing that no refuge is any longer left for them? Is it not, then, right to fear lest, the oaths being violated, we should again be brought into the very same state from which we were forced to make the treaty?
καὶ μὴν οὐ δεῖ γʼ ὑμᾶς παρʼ ἑτέρων μαθεῖν. ὅσον ἐστὶν ὁμόνοια ἀγαθὸν ἢ στάσις κακόν· οὕτω γὰρ ἀμφοτέρων σφόδρα πεπείρασθε, ὥστε καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ὑμεῖς ἄριστʼ ἂν διδάξαιτε περὶ αὐτῶν. §45ἵνα δὲ δοκῶ διὰ τοῦτο πολὺν χρόνον περὶ τὰς συνθήκας διατρίβειν, ὅτι ῥᾴδιόν ἐστι περὶ αὐτῶν πολλὰ καὶ δίκαια εἰπεῖν, τοσοῦτον ὑμῖν ἔτι διακελεύομαι μνημονεύειν, ὅταν φέρητε τὴν ψῆσον, ὅτι πρὶν μὲν ποιήσασθαι ταύτας ἐπολεμοῦμεν, οἱ μὲν τὸν κύκλον ἔχοντες, οἱ δὲ τὸν Πειραιᾶ κατειληφότες, μᾶλλον ἀλλήλους μισοῦντες ἢ τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν προγόνων πολεμίους ἡμῖν καταλειφθέντας, §46ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὰς πὶστεις ἀλλήλοις ἔδομεν εἰς ταὐτὸν συνελθόντες, οὕτω καλῶς καὶ κοινῶς πολιτευόμεθα, ὤσπερ οὐδεμιᾶς ἡμῖν συμφορᾶς γεγενημένης.
And indeed, you do not need to learn from others how great a good is harmony, or how great an evil is civil strife; for you have experienced both so intensely that you yourselves could best teach others about them. And lest I should seem to spend much time on the treaty for this reason, because it is easy to say many just things about it, I exhort you further to remember only this much when you cast your vote: that before making these agreements we were at war, some holding the city wall, others having occupied Piraeus, hating each other more than the enemies left to us by our ancestors, but when we gave pledges to one another and came together, we live under our constitution so nobly and in such common harmony, as if no misfortune had ever befallen us.
καὶ τότε μὲν ἀμαθεστάτους καὶ δυστυχεστάτους πάντες ἡμᾶς ἐνόμιζον· νῦν δʼ εὐδαιμονέστατοι καὶ σωφρονέστατοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων δοκοῦμεν εἶναι. §47ὥστʼ ἄξιον οὐ μόνον τηλικαύταις ζημίαις κολάζειν τοὺς παραβαίνειν τολμῶντας τὰς συνθήκας ἀλλὰ ταῖς ἐσχάταις, ὡς τῶν μεγίστων κακῶν αἰτίους ὄντας, ἄλλως τε καὶ τοὺς ὥσπερ Καλλίμαχος βεβιωκότας.
And at that time indeed all men considered us the most ignorant and most unfortunate; but now we seem to be the happiest and most moderate of the Greeks. So it is right to punish those who dare to violate the treaty not only with such penalties but with the extreme ones, as being the causes of the greatest evils, especially those who have lived like Callimachus.
ὃς δέκα μὲν ἔτη συνεχῶς ὑμῖν Λακεδαιμονίων πολεμησάντων οὐδὲ μίαν παρέσχεν αὑτὸν ἡμέραν τάξαι τοῖς στρατηγοῖς, §48ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνον μὲν τὸν χρόνον διετέλεσεν ἀποδιδράσκων καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν ἀποκρυπτόμενος, ἐπειδὴ δʼ οἱ τριάκοντα κατέστησαν, τηνικαῦτα κατέπλευσεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν.
Who, though the Lacedaemonians waged war against you continuously for ten years, never presented himself for even a single day to be stationed by the generals, but spent all that time running away and concealing his property, and when the Thirty were established, then he sailed down to the city.
καὶ φησὶ μὲν εἶναι δημοτικός, τοσούτῳ δὲ μᾶλλον τῶν ἄλλων ἐπεθύμει μετασχεῖν ἐκείνης τῆς πολιτείας, ὥστʼ οὐδʼ εἰ κακῶς ἔπαθεν, ἠξίωσεν ἀπελθεῖν, ἀλλʼ ᾑρεῖτο μετὰ τῶν ἡμαρτηκότων εἰς αὑτὸν πολιορκεῖσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ μεθʼ ὑμῶν τῶν συνηδικημένων πολιτεύεσθαι.
And he claims to be a friend of the people, yet he desired to share in that government so much more than the others that, even though he suffered ill, he did not think fit to depart, but chose to be besieged with those who had wronged him rather than to live as a citizen with you who had been wronged with him.