§8ὁρᾶτε Σέρριον καὶ Δορίσκον· ταῦτα γὰρ πρῶτον ὠλιγωρήθη μετὰ τὴν εἰρήνην, ἃ πολλοῖς ὑμῶν οὐδὲ γνώριμʼ ἐστὶν ἴσως.
You see Serrhium and Doriscus; for these were the first places neglected after the peace, which are perhaps not even known to many of you.
ταῦτα μέντοι τότʼ ἐαθέντα καὶ παροφθέντʼ ἀπώλεσε Θρᾴκην καὶ Κερσοβλέπτην, σύμμαχον ὄνθʼ ὑμῶν.
Yet these, being then allowed to go and overlooked, destroyed Thrace and Cersobleptes, who was your ally.
πάλιν ταῦτʼ ἀμελούμενʼ ἰδὼν καὶ οὐδεμιᾶς βοηθείας τυγχάνοντα παρʼ ὑμῶν κατέσκαπτε Πορθμόν, καὶ τυραννίδʼ ἀπαντικρὺ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἐπετείχισεν ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ Εὐβοίᾳ.
Again, seeing these neglected and receiving no help from you, he demolished Porthmus, and established a tyranny in Euboea, as a fortress threatening you directly opposite Attica.
§9ταύτης ὀλιγωρουμένης, Μέγαρʼ ἑάλω παρὰ μικρόν.
While this was being neglected, Megara was within a hair's breadth of being captured.
οὐδὲν ἐφροντίσατʼ οὐδʼ ἐπεστράφητʼ οὐδὲν τούτων, οὐδʼ ἐνεδείξασθε τοῦθʼ ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιτρέψετε τοῦτο ποιεῖν αὐτῷ· Ἀντρῶνας ἐπρίατο καὶ μετʼ οὐ πολὺν χρόνον τὰ ἐν Ὠρεῷ πράγματʼ εἰλήφει.
You showed no concern, nor did you turn your attention to any of these things, nor did you demonstrate that you would not permit him to do this; he bought Antronae, and not long after had seized control of affairs in Oreus.
§10πολλὰ δὲ καὶ παραλείπω, Φεράς, τὴν ἐπʼ Ἀμβρακίαν ὁδόν, τὰς ἐν Ἤλιδι σφαγάς, ἄλλα μυρία· οὐ γὰρ ἵνʼ ἐξαριθμήσωμαι τοὺς βεβιασμένους καὶ τοὺς ἠδικημένους ὑπὸ Φιλίππου, ταῦτα διεξῆλθον, ἀλλʼ ἵνα τοῦθʼ ὑμῖν δείξω, ὅτι οὐ στήσεται πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἀδικῶν, τὰ δʼ ὑφʼ αὑτῷ ποιούμενος Φίλιππος, εἰ μή τις αὐτὸν κωλύσει.
I pass over many other things—Pherae, the march against Ambracia, the massacres in Elis, and ten thousand others; for I did not go through these in order to enumerate those who have been coerced and wronged by Philip, but to show you this: that Philip will not stop wronging all mankind and bringing them under his power, unless someone prevents him.
§11εἰσὶν δέ τινες οἳ πρὶν ἀκοῦσαι τοὺς ὑπὲρ τῶν πραγμάτων λόγους εὐθέως εἰώθασιν ἐρωτᾶν
τί οὖν χρὴ ποιεῖν; οὐχ ἵνʼ ἀκούσαντες ποιήσωσι (χρησιμώτατοι γὰρ ἂν ἦσαν ἁπάντων), ἀλλʼ ἵνα τοῦ λέγοντος ἀπαλλαγῶσιν.
Now, there are some who, before hearing the arguments concerning the situation, are accustomed to ask immediately: "What then must we do?"—not that they may do it after hearing (for they would then be the most useful of all men), but so that they may get rid of the speaker.
δεῖ δʼ ὅμως εἰπεῖν ὅ τι χρὴ ποιεῖν.
Yet, one must nonetheless say what must be done.
πρῶτον μέν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοῦτο παρʼ ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς βεβαίως γνῶναι, ὅτι τῇ πόλει Φίλιππος πολεμεῖ καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην λέλυκεν, καὶ κακόνους μέν ἐστι καὶ ἐχθρὸς ὅλῃ τῇ πόλει καὶ τῷ τῆς πόλεως ἐδάφει, προσθήσω δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῇ πόλει θεοῖς, οἵπερ αὐτὸν ἐξολέσειαν, οὐδενὶ μέντοι μᾶλλον ἢ τῇ πολιτείᾳ πολεμεῖ οὐδʼ ἐπιβουλεύει, καὶ σκοπεῖ μᾶλλον οὐδὲν τῶν πάντων ἢ πῶς ταύτην καταλύσει.
First of all, men of Athens, you must firmly recognize this in your own minds: that Philip is making war against the city and has broken the peace, and that he is ill-disposed and an enemy to the whole city and to the very soil of the city—I will add, even to the gods in the city, may they utterly destroy him!—and yet, he makes war and plots against nothing more than our constitution, and he considers nothing else in the world more than how he shall destroy it.
§12καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐξ ἀνάγκης τρόπον τινὰ νῦν γε δὴ ποιεῖ.
And he is now doing this in a certain way of necessity.
λογίζεσθε γάρ. ἄρχειν βούλεται, τούτου δʼ ἀνταγωνιστὰς μόνους ὑπείληφεν ὑμᾶς.
For consider: he wishes to rule, and he has assumed you to be his only rivals in this.
ἀδικεῖ πολὺν χρόνον ἤδη, καὶ τοῦτʼ αὐτὸς ἄριστα σύνοιδεν αὑτῷ· οἷς γὰρ οὖσιν ὑμετέροις ἔχει, τούτοις ἅπαντα τἄλλα βεβαίως κέκτηται· εἰ γὰρ Ἀμφίπολιν καὶ Ποτείδαιαν προεῖτο, οὐδʼ ἂν ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ μένειν ἀσφαλῶς ἐδύνατο.
He has been acting unjustly for a long time now, and he himself knows this best; for it is by holding what was yours that he has securely acquired all his other possessions; indeed, if he were to give up Amphipolis and Potidaea, he would not even be able to remain safely in Macedonia.
§13ἀμφότερʼ οὖν οἶδε, καὶ αὑτὸν ὑμῖν ἐπιβουλεύοντα καὶ ὑμᾶς αἰσθανομένους· εὖ φρονεῖν δʼ ὑμᾶς ὑπολαμβάνων μισεῖν αὑτὸν ἡγεῖται.
He knows both things, therefore: both that he is plotting against you, and that you perceive it; and since he assumes that you are intelligent, he believes that you hate him.
πρὸς δὲ τούτοις τοσούτοις οὖσιν οἶδεν ἀκριβῶς ὅτι, οὐδʼ ἂν ἁπάντων τῶν ἄλλων γένηται κύριος, οὐδὲν ἔστʼ αὐτῷ βεβαίως ἔχειν, ἕως ἂν ὑμεῖς δημοκρατῆσθε, ἀλλʼ ἄν ποτε συμβῇ τι πταῖσμα (πολλὰ δʼ ἂν γένοιτʼ ἀνθρώπῳ), ἥξει πάντα τὰ νῦν βεβιασμένα καὶ καταφεύξεται πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
In addition to these many facts, he knows accurately that even if he should become master of all other men, nothing can be secure for him as long as you maintain your democracy; but if some setback should ever occur—and many things can happen to a human being—all those now held by force will come and take refuge with you.
§14ἐστὲ γὰρ ὑμεῖς οὐκ αὐτοὶ πλεονεκτῆσαι καὶ κατασχεῖν ἀρχὴν εὖ πεφυκότες, ἀλλʼ ἕτερον λαβεῖν κωλῦσαι καὶ ἔχοντʼ ἀφελέσθαι καὶ ὅλως ἐνοχλῆσαι τοῖς ἄρχειν βουλομένοις καὶ πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς ἐλευθερίαν ἐξελέσθαι δεινοί.
For you are not by nature suited to grasp power for yourselves and hold a dominion, but you are skilled at preventing another from seizing it, taking it away from him who holds it, completely obstructing those who wish to rule, and rescuing all mankind into freedom.
οὔκουν βούλεται τοῖς αὑτοῦ καιροῖς τὴν παρʼ ὑμῶν ἐλευθερίαν ἐφεδρεύειν, οὐ κακῶς οὐδʼ ἀργῶς ταῦτα λογιζόμενος.
He does not, therefore, want your freedom to lie in wait for his opportunities, and he is calculating this neither badly nor sluggishly.
§15πρῶτον μὲν δὴ τοῦτο δεῖ, ἐχθρὸν ὑπειληφέναι τῆς πολιτείας καὶ τῆς δημοκρατίας ἀδιάλλακτον ἐκεῖνον, δεύτερον δʼ εἰδέναι σαφῶς ὅτι πάνθʼ ὅσα πραγματεύεται καὶ κατασκευάζεται νῦν, ἐπὶ τὴν ἡμετέραν πόλιν παρασκευάζεται.
First of all, then, it is necessary to assume that he is an implacable enemy to our constitution and democracy, and secondly, to know clearly that everything he now busies himself with and prepares is being prepared against our city.
οὐ γὰρ οὕτως εὐήθης ὑμῶν ἐστὶν οὐδεὶς ὥσθʼ ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸν Φίλιππον τῶν μὲν ἐν Θρᾴκῃ κακῶν (τί γὰρ ἂν ἄλλο τις εἴποι Δρογγίλον καὶ Καβύλην καὶ Μάστειραν καὶ ἃ νῦν φασιν αὐτὸν ἔχειν; ) τούτων μὲν ἐπιθυμεῖν καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ταῦτα λαβεῖν καὶ πόνους καὶ χειμῶνας καὶ τοὺς ἐσχάτους κινδύνους ὑπομένειν,
For no one of you is so simple-minded as to suppose that Philip covets those miserable places in Thrace—for what else could one call Drongilus, Cabyle, Masteira, and the places which they say he now holds?—and for the sake of taking these, endures hardships, winters, and the extreme dangers,