§10κέκρισθε γὰρ ἐκ τούτων τῶν ἔργων μόνοι τῶν πάντων μηδενὸς ἂν κέρδους τὰ κοινὰ δίκαια τῶν Ἑλλήνων προέσθαι, μηδʼ ἀνταλλάξασθαι μηδεμιᾶς χάριτος μηδʼ ὠφελείας τὴν εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας εὔνοιαν.
For you have been judged by these actions, alone of all men, that you would not for any gain abandon the common rights of the Greeks, nor exchange for any favor or advantage your goodwill toward the Greeks.
καὶ ταῦτʼ εἰκότως καὶ περὶ ὑμῶν οὕτως ὑπείληφε καὶ κατʼ Ἀργείων καὶ Θηβαίων ὡς ἑτέρως, οὐ μόνον εἰς τὰ παρόνθʼ ὁρῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πρὸ τούτων λογιζόμενος.
And he has reasonably assumed these things about you, and the opposite about the Argives and Thebans, looking not only to the present, but also calculating the things before these.
§11εὑρίσκει γάρ, οἶμαι, καὶ ἀκούει τοὺς μὲν ὑμετέρους προγόνους, ἐξὸν αὐτοῖς τῶν λοιπῶν ἄρχειν Ἑλλήνων ὥστʼ αὐτοὺς ὑπακούειν βασιλεῖ, οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἀνασχομένους τὸν λόγον τοῦτον, ἡνίκʼ ἦλθεν Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ τούτων πρόγονος περὶ τούτων κῆρυξ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐκλιπεῖν προελομένους καὶ παθεῖν ὁτιοῦν ὑπομείναντας, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα πράξαντας ταῦθʼ ἃ πάντες ἀεὶ γλίχονται λέγειν, ἀξίως δʼ οὐδεὶς εἰπεῖν δεδύνηται, διόπερ κἀγὼ παραλείψω, δικαίως (ἔστι γὰρ μείζω τἀκείνων ἔργα ἢ ὡς τῷ λόγῳ τις ἂν εἴποι), τοὺς δὲ Θηβαίων καὶ Ἀργείων προγόνους τοὺς μὲν συστρατεύσαντας τῷ βαρβάρῳ, τοὺς δʼ οὐκ ἐναντιωθέντας.
For he finds, I think, and hears that your ancestors, when it was permitted to them to rule over the rest of the Greeks on condition that they themselves obey the King, not only did not tolerate this proposal, when Alexander, the ancestor of these men, came as a herald concerning these things, but even chose to abandon their land and endured to suffer anything whatever, and after these things performed those deeds which everyone always strives to speak of, but no one has been able to speak of worthily, wherefore I also shall pass them over, and justly (for their deeds are greater than what anyone could express in speech), but that the ancestors of the Thebans and the Argives, some campaigned with the barbarian, and others did not oppose him.
§12οἶδεν οὖν ἀμφοτέρους ἰδίᾳ τὸ λυσιτελοῦν ἀγαπήσοντας, οὐχ ὅ τι συνοίσει κοινῇ τοῖς Ἕλλησι σκεψομένους.
So he knows that both of them will content themselves with their private advantage, not considering what will be of common benefit to the Greeks.
ἡγεῖτʼ οὖν, εἰ μὲν ὑμᾶς ἕλοιτο, φίλους ἐπὶ τοῖς δικαίοις αἱρήσεσθαι, εἰ δʼ ἐκείνοις προσθεῖτο, συνεργοὺς ἕξειν τῆς αὑτοῦ πλεονεξίας.
He thought, therefore, that if he chose you, he would choose friends on terms of justice; but if he allied himself with them, he would have helpers in his own aggrandizement.
διὰ ταῦτʼ ἐκείνους ἀνθʼ ὑμῶν καὶ τότε καὶ νῦν αἱρεῖται.
For this reason he chooses them instead of you, both then and now.
οὐ γὰρ δὴ τριήρεις γʼ ὁρᾷ πλείους αὐτοῖς ἢ ὑμῖν οὔσας· οὐδʼ ἐν τῇ μεσογείᾳ τινʼ ἀρχὴν εὕρηκε, τῆς δʼ ἐπὶ τῇ θαλάττῃ καὶ τῶν ἐμπορίων ἀφέστηκεν· οὐδʼ ἀμνημονεῖ τοὺς λόγους οὐδὲ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις, ἐφʼ αἷς τῆς εἰρήνης ἔτυχεν.
For surely he does not see that they have more triremes than you, nor has he found some empire in the interior and retired from that on the sea and its emporiums; nor does he forget the speeches and the promises on which he obtained the peace.
§13ἀλλὰ νὴ Δίʼ, εἴποι τις ἂν ὡς πάντα ταῦτʼ εἰδώς, οὐ πλεονεξίας ἕνεκʼ οὐδʼ ὧν ἐγὼ κατηγορῶ τότε ταῦτʼ ἔπραξεν, ἀλλὰ τῷ δικαιότερα τοὺς Θηβαίους ἢ ὑμᾶς ἀξιοῦν.
But, by Zeus, someone might say that, though he knew all these things, he did these things then not for the sake of aggrandizement, nor for the things of which I accuse him, but because he deemed the claims of the Thebans more just than yours.
ἀλλὰ τοῦτον καὶ μόνον πάντων τῶν λόγων οὐκ ἔνεστιν αὐτῷ νῦν εἰπεῖν· ὁ γὰρ Μεσσήνην Λακεδαιμονίους ἀφιέναι κελεύων, πῶς ἂν Ὀρχομενὸν καὶ Κορώνειαν τότε Θηβαίοις παραδοὺς τῷ δίκαια νομίζειν ταῦτʼ εἶναι πεποιηκέναι σκήψαιτο;
But this is the one and only speech of all that he cannot possibly make now; for how could he, who is ordering the Lacedaemonians to let go of Messene, pretend that he gave Orchomenus and Coroneia to the Thebans then because he believed this to be just?
§14ἀλλʼ ἐβιάσθη νὴ Δία (ταῦτα γάρ ἐσθʼ ὑπόλοιπον) καὶ παρὰ γνώμην, τῶν Θετταλῶν ἱππέων καὶ τῶν Θηβαίων ὁπλιτῶν ἐν μέσῳ ληφθείς, συνεχώρησε ταῦτα.
But, by Zeus, he was forced (for this is what is left) and against his judgment, being caught between the Thessalian cavalry and the Theban hoplites, he conceded these things.
καλῶς.
Well.
οὐκοῦν φασὶ μὲν μέλλειν πρὸς τοὺς Θηβαίους αὐτὸν ὑπόπτως ἔχειν, καὶ λογοποιοῦσιν περιιόντες τινὲς ὡς Ἐλάτειαν τειχιεῖ.
Consequently they say indeed that he is going to be suspicious towards the Thebans, and some go about spreading rumors that he will fortify Elateia.
§15ὁ δὲ ταῦτα μὲν μέλλει καὶ μελλήσει γʼ, ὡς ἐγὼ κρίνω, τοῖς Μεσσηνίοις δὲ καὶ τοῖς Ἀργείοις ἐπὶ τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους συλλαμβάνειν οὐ μέλλει, ἀλλὰ καὶ ξένους εἰσπέμπει καὶ χρήματʼ ἀποστέλλει καὶ δύναμιν μεγάλην ἔχων αὐτός ἐστι προσδόκιμος.
But while he delays doing this, and will indeed continue to delay, as I judge, he does not delay assisting the Messenians and the Argives against the Lacedaemonians; on the contrary, he is sending mercenaries, dispatching money, and is himself expected with a great force.
τοὺς μὲν ὄντας ἐχθροὺς Θηβαίων Λακεδαιμονίους ἀναιρεῖ, οὓς δʼ ἀπώλεσεν αὐτὸς πρότερον Φωκέας νῦν σῴζει;
Does he then destroy the Lacedaemonians, who are the existing enemies of the Thebans, while now saving the Phocians, whom he himself destroyed before?
καὶ τίς ἂν ταῦτα πιστεύσειεν;
And who would believe this?
§16ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ἡγοῦμαι Φίλιππον, οὔτʼ εἰ τὰ πρῶτα βιασθεὶς ἄκων ἔπραξεν, οὔτʼ ἂν εἰ νῦν ἀπεγίγνωσκε Θηβαίους, τοῖς ἐκείνων ἐχθροῖς συνεχῶς ἐναντιοῦσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἀφʼ ὧν νῦν ποιεῖ, κἀκεῖνʼ ἐκ προαιρέσεως δῆλός ἐστι ποιήσας, ἐκ πάντων δʼ, ἄν τις ὀρθῶς θεωρῇ, πάνθʼ ἃ πραγματεύεται κατὰ τῆς πόλεως συντάττων.
For I, on my part, do not believe that Philip, either if he had done those first things under compulsion and unwillingly, or if he were now renouncing the Thebans, would continually oppose their enemies; on the contrary, from what he is doing now, it is clear that he did those things also from deliberate choice, and from all his actions, if anyone views them rightly, it is clear that he is organizing everything he busies himself with against our city.
§17καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐξ ἀνάγκης τρόπον τινʼ αὐτῷ νῦν γε δὴ συμβαίνει.
And this now happens to him in a way from necessity.
λογίζεσθε γάρ. ἄρχειν βούλεται, τούτου δʼ ἀνταγωνιστὰς μόνους ὑπείληφεν ὑμᾶς.
For calculate: he wishes to rule, and of this he has assumed you to be the only rivals.
ἀδικεῖ πολὺν ἤδη χρόνον, καὶ τοῦτʼ αὐτὸς ἄριστα σύνοιδεν αὑτῷ· οἷς γὰρ οὖσιν ὑμετέροις ἔχει, τούτοις πάντα τἄλλʼ ἀσφαλῶς κέκτηται· εἰ γὰρ Ἀμφίπολιν καὶ Ποτείδαιαν προεῖτο, οὐδʼ ἂν οἴκοι μένειν βεβαίως ἡγεῖται.
He has been acting unjustly for a long time now, and of this he is himself best aware; for with those things which belong to you and which he holds, he possesses all his other things securely; for if he were to abandon Amphipolis and Potidaea, he thinks he could not even remain safely at home.