§29οὔτε γὰρ αὐτὸς ἄν ποθʼ ὑπέμεινα πρεσβεύειν, οὔτʼ ἂν ὑμεῖς οἶδʼ ὅτι ἐπαύσασθε πολεμοῦντες, εἰ τοιαῦτα πράξειν τυχόντʼ εἰρήνης Φίλιππον ᾤεσθε· ἀλλʼ ἦν πολὺ τούτων ἀφεστηκότα τὰ τότε λεγόμενα.
For neither would I myself ever have submitted to serve as ambassador, nor would you, I well know, have ceased from war, if you had thought that Philip, once having obtained peace, would act in such a manner; but the assertions made at that time were far removed from these things.
καὶ πάλιν γʼ ἑτέρους καλεῖν.
And again, indeed, we ought to call others.
τίνας;
Whom?
τοὺς ὅτʼ ἐγὼ γεγονυίας ἤδη τῆς εἰρήνης ἀπὸ τῆς ὑστέρας ἥκων πρεσβείας τῆς ἐπὶ τοὺς ὅρκους, αἰσθόμενος φενακιζομένην τὴν πόλιν, προὔλεγον καὶ διεμαρτυρόμην καὶ οὐκ εἴων προέσθαι Πύλας οὐδὲ Φωκέας, §30λέγοντας ὡς ἐγὼ μὲν ὕδωρ πίνων εἰκότως δύστροπος καὶ δύσκολός εἰμί τις ἄνθρωπος, Φίλιππος δʼ, ἅπερ εὔξαισθʼ ἂν ὑμεῖς, ἂν παρέλθῃ, πράξει, καὶ Θεσπιὰς μὲν καὶ Πλαταιὰς τειχιεῖ, Θηβαίους δὲ παύσει τῆς ὕβρεως, Χερρόνησον δὲ τοῖς αὑτοῦ τέλεσιν διορύξει, Εὔβοιαν δὲ καὶ τὸν Ὠρωπὸν ἀντʼ Ἀμφιπόλεως ὑμῖν ἀποδώσει·
Those who, when, after the peace had already been made, I returned from the second embassy—the one for the oaths—and perceived that the city was being cheated, and forewarned you and protested and forbade you to abandon Thermopylae and the Phocians, were saying that I, because I drank water, was naturally a morose and difficult sort of fellow, but that Philip, if he should pass the pass, would perform exactly what you would pray for: he would fortify Thespiae and Plataea, would curb the insolence of the Thebans, would dig through the Chersonese at his own expense, and would restore Euboea and Oropus to you in exchange for Amphipolis.
ταῦτα γὰρ ἅπαντʼ ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος ἐνταῦθα μνημονεύετʼ οἶδʼ ὅτι ῥηθέντα, καίπερ ὄντες οὐ δεινοὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας μεμνῆσθαι.
For all these things, I well know you remember, were spoken here upon the platform, although you are not very good at remembering those who wrong you.
§31καὶ τὸ πάντων αἴσχιστον, καὶ τοῖς ἐκγόνοις πρὸς τὰς ἐλπίδας τὴν αὐτὴν εἰρήνην εἶναι ταύτην ἐψηφίσασθε· οὕτω τελέως ὑπήχθητε.
And, what is most shameful of all, you even decreed that this same peace should extend to your descendants with these hopes; so completely were you led astray.
τί δὴ ταῦτα νῦν λέγω καὶ καλεῖν φημὶ δεῖν τούτους;
Why indeed do I say these things now and assert that we must call these men?
ἐγὼ νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς τἀληθῆ μετὰ παρρησίας ἐρῶ πρὸς ὑμᾶς καὶ οὐκ ἀποκρύψομαι· §32οὐχ ἵνʼ εἰς λοιδορίαν ἐμπεσὼν ἐμαυτῷ μὲν ἐξ ἴσου λόγον παρʼ ὑμῖν ποιήσω, τοῖς δʼ ἐμοὶ προσκρούσασιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς καὶ νῦν παράσχω πρόφασιν τοῦ πάλιν τι λαβεῖν παρὰ Φιλίππου, οὐδʼ ἵνʼ ὡς ἄλλως ἀδολεσχῶ· ἀλλʼ οἴομαί ποθʼ ὑμᾶς λυπήσειν ἃ Φίλιππος πράττει μᾶλλον ἢ τὰ νυνί·
By the gods, I will tell you the truth with all frankness and will conceal nothing: not that I, falling into abuse, may secure for myself an equal hearing before you, nor to afford to those who have clashed with me from the beginning a pretext now again to receive something from Philip, nor that I may babble in vain; but because I think that what Philip is doing will one day cause you more pain than what is happening now.
§33τὸ γὰρ πρᾶγμʼ ὁρῶ προβαῖνον, καὶ οὐχὶ βουλοίμην ἂν εἰκάζειν ὀρθῶς, φοβοῦμαι δὲ μὴ λίαν ἐγγὺς ᾖ τοῦτʼ ἤδη.
For I see the matter progressing, and I would not wish to conjecture correctly, but I fear that this is already too close.
ὅταν οὖν μηκέθʼ ὑμῖν ἀμελεῖν ἐξουσία γίγνηται τῶν συμβαινόντων, μηδʼ ἀκούηθʼ ὅτι ταῦτʼ ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς ἐστιν ἐμοῦ μηδὲ τοῦ δεῖνος, ἀλλʼ αὐτοὶ πάντες ὁρᾶτε καὶ εὖ εἰδῆτε, ὀργίλους καὶ τραχεῖς ὑμᾶς ἔσεσθαι νομίζω.
When, therefore, it is no longer in your power to ignore what is happening, and you no longer hear that these things are directed against you from me or from so-and-so, but you yourselves all see and well know it, I think you will become angry and harsh.
§34φοβοῦμαι δὴ μή, τῶν πρέσβεων σεσιωπηκότων ἐφʼ οἷς αὑτοῖς συνίσασι δεδωροδοκηκότες, τοῖς ἐπανορθοῦν τι πειρωμένοις τῶν διὰ τούτους ἀπολωλότων τῇ παρʼ ὑμῶν ὀργῇ περιπεσεῖν συμβῇ· ὁρῶ γὰρ ὡς τὰ πόλλʼ ἐνίους οὐκ εἰς τοὺς αἰτίους, ἀλλʼ εἰς τοὺς ὑπὸ χεῖρα μάλιστα τὴν ὀργὴν ἀφιέντας.
I fear, indeed, lest, while the ambassadors are silent concerning the things on which they are conscious of having taken bribes, it should happen that those who are trying to remedy any of the losses caused by these men fall victim to your anger; for I see that, for the most part, some people discharge their anger not upon those who are responsible, but upon those who are most within reach.
§35ἕως οὖν ἔτι μέλλει καὶ συνίσταται τὰ πράγματα καὶ κατακούομεν ἀλλήλων, ἕκαστον ὑμῶν καίπερ ἀκριβῶς εἰδόθʼ ὅμως ἐπαναμνῆσαι βούλομαι, τίς ὁ Φωκέας πείσας καὶ Πύλας προέσθαι, ὧν καταστὰς ἐκεῖνος κύριος τῆς ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὁδοῦ καὶ τῆς εἰς Πελοπόννησον κύριος γέγονεν, καὶ πεποίηχʼ ὑμῖν μὴ περὶ τῶν δικαίων μηδʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἔξω πραγμάτων εἶναι τὴν βουλήν, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ καὶ τοῦ πρὸς τὴν Ἀττικὴν πολέμου, ὃς λυπήσει μὲν ἕκαστον, ἐπειδὰν παρῇ, γέγονεν δʼ ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ.
While, therefore, the danger is still in the future and is gathering, and we can still listen to one another, I wish to remind each of you, although you know it accurately, who it was that persuaded you to abandon the Phocians and Thermopylae, by becoming master of which, that man became master of the road to Attica and the road into Peloponnese, and has caused your deliberation to be not about your rights nor about external affairs, but about those within your own territory and about the war directed against Attica, which will cause pain to each of you whenever it is present, but which was born on that very day.
§36εἰ γὰρ μὴ παρεκρούσθητε τόθʼ ὑμεῖς, οὐδὲν ἂν ἦν τῇ πόλει πρᾶγμα· οὔτε γὰρ ναυσὶ δήπου κρατήσας εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἦλθεν ἄν ποτε στόλῳ Φίλιππος, οὔτε πεζῇ βαδίζων ὑπὲρ τὰς Πύλας καὶ Φωκέας, ἀλλʼ ἢ τὰ δίκαιʼ ἂν ἐποίει καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην ἄγων ἡσυχίαν εἶχεν, ἢ παραχρῆμʼ ἂν ἦν ἐν ὁμοίῳ πολέμῳ διʼ ὃν τότε τῆς εἰρήνης ἐπεθύμησεν.
For if you had not been deceived at that time, there would be no trouble for the city; for neither, I suppose, having conquered by sea, would Philip ever have come to Attica with a fleet, nor marching by land beyond Thermopylae and the Phocians, but he would either be doing what is just and keeping quiet by observing the peace, or he would have been immediately in a similar war because of which he then desired the peace.
§37ταῦτʼ οὖν, ὡς μὲν ὑπομνῆσαι, νῦν ἱκανῶς εἴρηται, ὡς δʼ ἂν ἐξετασθείη μάλιστʼ ἀκριβῶς, μὴ γένοιτʼ, ὦ πάντες θεοί·
These things, therefore, by way of reminding you, have now been sufficiently spoken; but that they should be put to the proof with the utmost exactness, may it never happen, O all you gods!
οὐδένα γὰρ βουλοίμην ἔγωγʼ ἄν, οὐδʼ εἰ δίκαιός ἐστʼ ἀπολωλέναι, μετὰ τοῦ πάντων κινδύνου καὶ τῆς ζημίας δίκην ὑποσχεῖν.
For I would not wish anyone, even if he deserves to perish, to suffer punishment accompanied by the danger and damage of all.