§32καίτοι τί τῆς ἐσχάτης ὕβρεως ἀπολείπει;
And yet, what is lacking to make this the extreme of insolence?
οὐ πρὸς τῷ πόλεις ἀνῃρηκέναι τίθησι μὲν τὰ Πύθια, τὸν κοινὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀγῶνα, κἂν αὐτὸς μὴ παρῇ, τοὺς δούλους ἀγωνοθετήσοντας πέμπει;
In addition to having destroyed cities, does he not hold the Pythian Games, the common festival of the Greeks, and, even if he is not present himself, does he not send his slaves to act as presidents of the games?
κύριος δὲ Πυλῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἕλληνας παρόδων ἐστί, καὶ φρουραῖς καὶ ξένοις τοὺς τόπους τούτους κατέχει;
Is he not master of Thermopylae and of the passes into Greece, and does he not hold these places with garrisons and mercenaries?
ἔχει δὲ καὶ τὴν προμαντείαν τοῦ θεοῦ, παρώσας ἡμᾶς καὶ Θετταλοὺς καὶ Δωριέας καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους Ἀμφικτύονας, ἧς οὐδὲ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἅπασι μέτεστι;
Does he not also possess the right of prior consultation of the god, pushing aside us, the Thessalians, the Dorians, and the other Amphictyons—a privilege which is not shared even by all the Greeks?
§33γράφει δὲ Θετταλοῖς ὃν χρὴ τρόπον πολιτεύεσθαι;
Does he not dictate to the Thessalians the manner in which they must govern?
πέμπει δὲ ξένους τοὺς μὲν εἰς Πορθμόν, τὸν δῆμον ἐκβαλοῦντας τὸν Ἐρετριέων, τοὺς δʼ ἐπʼ Ὠρεόν, τύραννον Φιλιστίδην καταστήσοντας;
Does he not send mercenaries, some to Porthmus to expel the Eretrian populace, and others to Oreus to establish Philistides as tyrant?
ἀλλʼ ὅμως ταῦθʼ ὁρῶντες οἱ Ἕλληνες ἀνέχονται, καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὥσπερ τὴν χάλαζαν ἔμοιγε δοκοῦσιν θεωρεῖν, εὐχόμενοι μὴ καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἕκαστοι γενέσθαι, κωλύειν δʼ οὐδεὶς ἐπιχειρῶν.
And yet, seeing these things, the Greeks tolerate them, and they seem to me to look on them in the same way as they do a hailstorm, each praying that it may not fall on themselves, but no one attempting to prevent it.
§34οὐ μόνον δʼ ἐφʼ οἷς ἡ Ἑλλὰς ὑβρίζεται ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, οὐδεὶς ἀμύνεται, ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ὑπὲρ ὧν αὐτὸς ἕκαστος ἀδικεῖται· τοῦτο γὰρ ἤδη τοὔσχατόν ἐστιν.
And not only does no one defend themselves against the outrages by which Greece is insulted by him, but not even for the wrongs which each of them individually suffers; for this is already the very limit.
οὐ Κορινθίων ἐπʼ Ἀμβρακίαν ἐλήλυθε καὶ Λευκάδα;
Has he not gone against Ambracia and Leucas, which belong to the Corinthians?
οὐκ Ἀχαιῶν Ναύπακτον ὀμώμοκεν Αἰτωλοῖς παραδώσειν;
Has he not sworn to hand over Naupactus, belonging to the Achaeans, to the Aetolians?
οὐχὶ Θηβαίων Ἐχῖνον ἀφῄρηται, καὶ νῦν ἐπὶ Βυζαντίους πορεύεται συμμάχους ὄντας;
Has he not taken Echinus from the Thebans, and is he not now marching against the Byzantines, who are his allies?
§35οὐχ ἡμῶν, ἐῶ τἄλλα, ἀλλὰ Χερρονήσου τὴν μεγίστην ἔχει πόλιν Καρδίαν;
To pass over other matters, does he not hold Cardia, the greatest city of our Chersonese?
ταῦτα τοίνυν πάσχοντες ἅπαντες μέλλομεν καὶ μαλκίομεν καὶ πρὸς τοὺς πλησίον βλέπομεν, ἀπιστοῦντες ἀλλήλοις, οὐ τῷ πάντας ἡμᾶς ἀδικοῦντι.
Suffering these things, therefore, we all delay, grow sluggish, and look to our neighbors, distrusting one another, rather than the one who wrongs us all.
καίτοι τὸν ἅπασιν ἀσελγῶς οὕτω χρώμενον τί οἴεσθε, ἐπειδὰν καθʼ ἕνʼ ἡμῶν ἑκάστου κύριος γένηται, τί ποιήσειν;
And yet, when he who treats everyone so outrageously becomes master of each of us individually, what do you think he will do?
§36τί οὖν αἴτιον τουτωνί;
What, then, is the cause of all this?
οὐ γὰρ ἄνευ λόγου καὶ δικαίας αἰτίας οὔτε τόθʼ οὕτως εἶχον ἑτοίμως πρὸς ἐλευθερίαν οἱ Ἕλληνες οὔτε νῦν πρὸς τὸ δουλεύειν.
For it is not without reason and just cause that the Greeks of that time were so ready for freedom, and those of today are so ready for slavery.
ἦν τι τότʼ, ἦν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐν ταῖς τῶν πολλῶν διανοίαις, ὃ νῦν οὐκ ἔστιν, ὃ καὶ τοῦ Περσῶν ἐκράτησε πλούτου καὶ ἐλευθέραν ἦγε τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ οὔτε ναυμαχίας οὔτε πεζῆς μάχης οὐδεμιᾶς ἡττᾶτο, νῦν δʼ ἀπολωλὸς ἅπαντα λελύμανται καὶ ἄνω καὶ κάτω πεποίηκε τὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων πράγματα.
There was something then, there was, men of Athens, in the minds of the majority, which is not there now—something which overcame even the wealth of the Persians, led Greece in freedom, and was never defeated in any battle by sea or by land; but now, having perished, it has ruined everything and turned the affairs of the Greeks upside down.
§37τί οὖν ἦν τοῦτο;
What, then, was this?
οὐδὲν ποικίλον οὐδὲ σοφόν, ἀλλʼ ὅτι τοὺς παρὰ τῶν ἄρχειν βουλομένων ἢ διαφθείρειν τὴν Ἑλλάδα χρήματα λαμβάνοντας ἅπαντες ἐμίσουν, καὶ χαλεπώτατον ἦν τὸ δωροδοκοῦντʼ ἐλεγχθῆναι, καὶ τιμωρίᾳ μεγίστῃ τοῦτον ἐκόλαζον, καὶ παραίτησις οὐδεμίʼ ἦν οὐδὲ συγγνώμη.
Nothing complex or clever, but that everyone hated those who took bribes from those who wished to rule or corrupt Greece; and it was the hardest thing to be convicted of taking bribes, and they punished such a man with the greatest penalty, and there was no intercession or pardon.
§38τὸν οὖν καιρὸν ἑκάστου τῶν πραγμάτων, ὃν ἡ τύχη καὶ τοῖς ἀμελοῦσιν κατὰ τῶν προσεχόντων πολλάκις παρασκευάζει, οὐκ ἦν πρίασθαι παρὰ τῶν λεγόντων οὐδὲ τῶν στρατηγούντων, οὐδὲ τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὁμόνοιαν, οὐδὲ τὴν πρὸς τοὺς τυράννους καὶ τοὺς βαρβάρους ἀπιστίαν, οὐδʼ ὅλως τοιοῦτον οὐδέν.
Therefore, the opportunity for each action, which fortune often provides even for the negligent against those who are watchful, could not be bought from the speakers or from the generals, nor could mutual concord, nor distrust toward tyrants and barbarians, nor indeed any such thing.
§39νῦν δʼ ἅπανθʼ ὥσπερ ἐξ ἀγορᾶς ἐκπέπραται ταῦτα, ἀντεισῆκται δʼ ἀντὶ τούτων ὑφʼ ὧν ἀπόλωλε καὶ νενόσηκεν ἡ Ἑλλάς.
But now, all these things have been sold off as if from the marketplace, and in their stead there have been imported those things by which Greece has perished and fallen sick.
ταῦτα δʼ ἐστὶ τί;
And what are these?
ζῆλος, εἴ τις εἴληφέ τι· γέλως, ἂν ὁμολογῇ· συγγνώμη τοῖς ἐλεγχομένοις· μῖσος, ἂν τούτοις τις ἐπιτιμᾷ· τἄλλα πάνθʼ ὅσʼ ἐκ τοῦ δωροδοκεῖν ἤρτηται.
Envy, if someone has received something; laughter, if he confesses; pardon for those who are convicted; hatred, if anyone censures these things; and all the other things that depend on bribery.
§40ἐπεὶ τριήρεις γε καὶ σωμάτων πλῆθος καὶ χρημάτων καὶ τῆς ἄλλης κατασκευῆς ἀφθονία, καὶ τἄλλʼ οἷς ἄν τις ἰσχύειν τὰς πόλεις κρίνοι, νῦν ἅπασι καὶ πλείω καὶ μείζω ἐστὶ τῶν τότε πολλῷ.
For triremes, abundance of men, money, and other equipment, and everything else by which one might judge the strength of cities, are now far more numerous and greater for all than they were then.
ἀλλὰ ταῦτʼ ἄχρηστα, ἄπρακτα, ἀνόνητα ὑπὸ τῶν πωλούντων γίγνεται.
But these are rendered useless, ineffective, and unprofitable by those who sell them.