§10καὶ τὰ μὲν γενόμενα ταῦτʼ ἐστίν·
And these are the facts.
τοσοῦτον δὲ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς τῆς ὕβρεως περίεστιν, ὥσθʼ οὕτως ἀνόμως τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπεσόντος ὡς δεινὰ δεδρακότος αὐτοῦ κατηγοροῦσι, καὶ διαβάλλειν ἐπιχειροῦσιν ὡς Δεκέλειάν τʼ ἐπετείχισε καὶ τὰς νήσους ἀπέστησε καὶ τῶν πολεμίων διδάσκαλος κατέστη. §11καὶ ἐνίοτε μὲν αὐτοῦ προσποιοῦνται καταφρονεῖν, λέγοντες ὡς οὐδὲν διέφερε τῶν ἄλλων, νυνὶ δʼ ἁπάντων αὐτὸν τῶν γεγενημένων αἰτιῶνται καί φασι παρʼ ἐκείνου μαθεῖν Λακεδαιμονίους ὡς χρὴ πολεμεῖν, οἳ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους διδάσκειν τέχνην ἔχουσιν.
But such is the excess of our enemies' insolence that, although my father was exiled so unlawfully, they accuse him as if he had committed terrible deeds, and they attempt to slander him, claiming that he fortified Decelea, caused the islands to revolt, and became a teacher to the enemy.\n And at times they pretend to look down on him, saying that he was no different from anyone else, yet now they blame him for everything that has happened and say that the Lacedaemonians, who possess the art of teaching others, learned how to wage war from him.
ἐγὼ δʼ εἴ μοι χρόνος ἱκανὸς γένοιτο, ῥᾳδίως ἂν αὐτὸν ἐπιδείξαιμι τὰ μὲν δικαίως πράξαντα, τῶν δʼ ἀδίκως αἰτίαν ἔχοντα.
For my part, if I had sufficient time, I could easily show that in some matters he acted justly, while in others he was unjustly blamed.
πάντων δʼ ἂν εἴη δεινότατον, εἰ τοῦ πατρὸς μετὰ τὴν φυγὴν δωρεὰν λαβόντος ἐγὼ διὰ τὴν ἐκείνου φυγὴν ζημιωθείην. §12ἡγοῦμαι δʼ αὐτὸν παρʼ ὑμῶν δικαίως ἂν πλείστης συγγνώμης τυγχάνειν· ὑπὸ γὰρ τῶν τριάκοντʼ ἐκπεσόντες ταῖς αὐταῖς ἐκείνῳ συμφοραῖς ἐχρήσασθε.
And it would be the most terrible thing of all if, while my father received a reward after his exile, I should be punished on account of his exile.\n I believe that he would justly obtain the greatest sympathy from you; for having been expelled by the Thirty, you experienced the same misfortunes as he did.
ἐξ ὧν ἐνθυμεῖσθαι χρή, πῶς ἕκαστος ὑμῶν διέκειτο καὶ τίνα γνώμην εἶχε καὶ ποῖον κίνδυνον οὐκ ἂν ὑπέμεινεν ὥστε παύσασθαι μὲν μετοικῶν, κατελθεῖν δʼ εἰς τὴν πατρίδα, τιμωρήσασθαι δὲ τοὺς ἐκβαλόντας. §13ἐπὶ τίνα δʼ ἢ πόλιν ἢ φίλον ἢ ξένον οὐκ ἤλθετε δεησόμενοι συγκαταγαγεῖν ὑμᾶς;
From these experiences, you ought to consider how each of you was disposed, what thoughts you held, and what danger you would not have endured so that you might cease to live as resident aliens, return to your fatherland, and take vengeance on those who had expelled you.\n To what city, or friend, or guest-friend did you not go to entreat them to help restore you?
τίνος δʼ ἀπέσχεσθε πειρώμενοι κατελθεῖν;
From what did you refrain in your efforts to return?
οὐ καταλαβόντες τὸν Πειραιᾶ καὶ τὸν σῖτον τὸν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ διεφθείρετε καὶ τὴν γῆν ἐτέμνετε καὶ τὰ προάστεια ἐνεπρήσατε καὶ τελευτῶντες τοῖς τείχεσι προσεβάλετε; §14καὶ ταῦθʼ οὕτω σφόδρʼ ἐνομίζετε χρῆναι ποιεῖν, ὥστε τοῖς ἡσυχίαν ἄγουσι τῶν συμφυγάδων μᾶλλον ὠργίζεσθε ἢ τοῖς αἰτίοις τῶν συμφορῶν γεγενημένοις.
Did you not seize the Peiraeus, destroy the crops in the countryside, ravage the land, burn the suburbs, and finally assault the walls?\n And you believed so strongly that you had to do these things, that you were angrier with those of your fellow-exiles who remained quiet than with those who had been the causes of your misfortunes.
ὥστʼ οὐκ εἰκὸς ἐπιτιμᾶν τοῖς τῶν αὐτῶν ὑμῖν ἐπιθυμοῦσιν, οὐδὲ κακοὺς ἄνδρας νομίζειν, ὅσοι φεύγοντες κατελθεῖν ἐζήτησαν, ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον ὅσοι μένοντες φυγῆς ἄξιʼ ἐποίησαν· οὐδʼ ἐντεῦθεν ἀρξαμένους κρίνειν, ὁποῖός τις ἦν ὁ πατὴρ πολίτης, ὅτʼ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ τῆς πόλεως προσῆκεν, §15ἀλλʼ ἐπʼ ἐκείνου τοῦ χρόνου σκοπεῖν οἷος ἦν πρὶν φυγεῖν περὶ τὸ πλῆθος, καὶ ὅτι διακοσίους ὁπλίτας ἔχων τὰς μεγίστας πόλεις τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ Λακεδαιμονίων μὲν ἀπέστησεν, ὑμῖν δὲ συμμάχους ἐποίησε, καὶ εἰς οἵους κινδύνους αὐτοὺς κατέστησε, καὶ ὡς περὶ Σικελίαν ἐστρατήγησεν.
Therefore, it is not reasonable to censure those who desired the same things as you, nor to regard as bad men those who, being in exile, sought to return, but much rather those who, remaining in the city, did things worthy of exile; nor should you begin to judge what kind of citizen my father was from that period when he had nothing to do with the city,\n but you should examine what kind of man he was toward the multitude before his exile, and how, with two hundred hoplites, he caused the greatest cities of the Peloponnese to revolt from the Lacedaemonians and made them your allies, and into what dangers he cast them, and how he commanded the forces around Sicily.
τούτων μὲν γὰρ ἐκείνῳ προσήκει χάριν ὑμᾶς ἔχειν· τῶν δʼ ἐν τῇ συμφορᾷ γενομένων τοὺς ἐκβαλόντας αὐτὸν δικαίως ἂν αἰτίους νομίζοιτε. §16ἀναμνήσθητε δὲ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτούς, ἐπειδὴ κατῆλθεν, ὡς πόλλʼ ἀγαθὰ τὴν πόλιν ἐποίησεν, ἔτι δὲ πρότερον, ὡς ἐχόντων τῶν πραγμάτων αὐτὸν κατεδέξασθε, καταλελυμένου μὲν τοῦ δήμου, στασιαζόντων δὲ τῶν πολιτῶν, διαφερομένων δὲ τῶν στρατιωτῶν πρὸς τὰς ἀρχὰς τὰς ἐνθάδε καθεστηκυίας, εἰς τοῦτο δὲ μανίας ἀμφοτέρων ἀφιγμένων ὥστε μηδετέροις μηδεμίαν ἐλπίδʼ εἶναι σωτηρίας· §17οἱ μὲν γὰρ τοὺς ἔχοντας τὴν πόλιν ἐχθροὺς ἐνόμιζον μᾶλλον ἢ Λακεδαιμονίους, οἱ δὲ τοὺς ἐκ Δεκελείας μετεπέμποντο, ἡγούμενοι κρεῖττον εἶναι τοῖς πολεμίοις τὴν πατρίδα παραδοῦναι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως στρατευομένοις τῆς πολιτείας μεταδοῦναι. §18τοιαύτην μὲν οὖν τῶν πολιτῶν γνώμην ἐχόντων, κρατούντων δὲ τῶν πολεμίων καὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ τῆς θαλάττης, ἔτι δὲ χρημάτων ὑμῖν μὲν οὐκ ὄντων, ἐκείνοις δὲ βασιλέως παρέχοντος, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἐνενήκοντα νεῶν ἐκ Φοινίκης εἰς Ἄσπενδον ἡκουσῶν καὶ παρεσκευασμένων Λακεδαιμονίοις βοηθεῖν, ἐν τοσαύταις συμφοραῖς καὶ τοιούτοις κινδύνοις τῆς πόλεως οὔσης,
For these things you ought to be grateful to him; whereas for what happened during his misfortune, you would justly hold those who expelled him responsible.\n Reflect also within yourselves how many benefits he conferred upon the city after he returned, and even before that, in what state of affairs you received him back, when the democracy was overthrown, the citizens were in discord, the soldiers were at variance with the authorities established here, and both sides had arrived at such a pitch of madness that neither had any hope of safety.\n For the one party regarded those holding the city as greater enemies than the Lacedaemonians, while the other party was summoning those from Decelea, believing it better to surrender their fatherland to the enemy than to share the franchise with those who were fighting on behalf of the city.\n When the citizens held such views, and the enemy was master of both land and sea, and furthermore you had no money, while the Persian king provided it to them, and in addition to this, ninety ships from Phoenicia had arrived at Aspendus and were prepared to help the Lacedaemonians, when the city was in such great misfortunes and dangers,