§39ἀλλʼ οὐχὶ τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ σαφῶς ἂν ἐξηλέγχθη πωλῶν καὶ τὴν τιμὴν κεκομισμένος.
But the case is not such, but he would clearly have been convicted of selling and of having received the price.
διόπερ τοὺς ὁμολογουμένως δούλους παραβὰς τὸν ἐλεύθερον ἠξίου βασανίζειν, ὃν οὐδʼ ὅσιον παραδοῦναι, τὸ πρᾶγμʼ οὐκ ἄγειν εἰς ἔλεγχον ζητῶν, ἀλλὰ μὴ παραλαμβάνων βουλόμενός τι δοκεῖν λέγειν.
Therefore, passing over those who are admittedly slaves, he demanded to torture the free man, whom it is not even lawful to surrender, seeking not to bring the matter to a test, but, by not accepting the others, wishing to seem to have something to say.
περὶ τοίνυν πάντων τούτων, πρῶτον μὲν περὶ τῆς προικός, εἶθʼ ὑπὲρ ὧν καθυφεῖκεν, εἶθʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων, ἀναγνώσεται τούς τε νόμους καὶ τὰς μαρτυρίας, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε.
Concerning all these matters, then, first concerning the dowry, then concerning the things he surrendered, then concerning the others, the clerk shall read both the laws and the testimonies, so that you may know.
ΝΟΜΟΙ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.
LAWS. TESTIMONIES.
§40οὐ τοίνυν μόνον ἐκ τούτων ἂν γνοίητε, ὅτι δεινὸν οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν πέπονθεν τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐκ ἐκδόντος ἐμοῦ βασανίζειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμʼ αὔτʼ εἰ σκέψαισθε.
You would know, therefore, not only from these things that he has suffered no wrong whatever because of my not surrendering the man to be tortured, but also if you should consider the matter itself.
θῶμεν γὰρ δὴ τὸν Μιλύαν ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχοῦ στρεβλοῦσθαι, καὶ τί μάλιστʼ ἂν αὐτὸν εὔξαιτο λέγειν σκοπῶμεν.
For let us suppose that Milyas is being stretched on the wheel, and let us consider what he would most wish to say.
οὐχ ὅτι τῶν χρημάτων οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν οἶδεν τοῦτον ἔχοντα;
Is it not that he knows nothing of this man holding any of the property?
καὶ δὴ λέγει.
And suppose he says this.
διὰ τοῦτʼ ἄρʼ οὐκ ἔχει;
Is it therefore true that he does not hold it?
πολλοῦ γε δεῖ· τοὺς γὰρ εἰδότας καὶ παρόντας μάρτυρας παρεσχόμην ἐγώ.
Far from it; for I produced witnesses who knew and were present.
τεκμήριον δὲ καὶ πίστις ἐστίν, οὐκ εἴ τίς τι μὴ οἶδε τοῦτον ἔχοντα (πολλοὶ γὰρ ἂν εἶεν), ἀλλʼ εἴ τις οἶδεν.
And proof and belief consist not in whether someone does not know that this man holds something (for there would be many such), but in whether someone does know.
§41καταμαρτυρησάντων τοίνυν τοσούτων σου μαρτύρων, τίνι τῶν ψευδομαρτυρίων ἐπεσκήψω;
When, therefore, so many witnesses testified against you, against which of the false testimonies did you bring an action?
δεῖξον.
Show us.
ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἂν ἔχοις δεῖξαι.
But you would not be able to show any.
καίτοι πῶς οὐ σαφῶς σὺ σαυτὸν ἐξελέγχεις, ὅτι ψεύδει δεινὰ πεπονθέναι φάσκων καὶ τὴν δίκην ἀδίκως ὠφληκέναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐ παραλαβών, ὃς τοὺς ταῦτα μαρτυρήσαντας ἔχειν σε καὶ λαβεῖν, περὶ ὧν ὡς οὐ καταλειφθέντων σὺ τὸν Μιλύαν ἐξῄτεις, ἀφῆκας τῶν ψευδομαρτυρίων;
And yet, how do you not clearly convict yourself of lying when you claim to have suffered terrible things and to have lost the lawsuit unjustly because you did not receive the man—you who released from charges of false testimony those who testified that you held and received these things, concerning which you demanded Milyas on the ground that they had not been left?
οὓς πολὺ κάλλιον ἦν, εἴπερ ἠδίκησο, διώκειν.
Whom it was much more proper to prosecute, if indeed you had been wronged.
ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἠδικημένος σὺ συκοφαντεῖς.
But you, not having been wronged, are bringing false accusations.
§42πολλαχόθεν μὲν οὖν ἄν τις ἴδοι τὴν σὴν πονηρίαν, μάλιστα δʼ εἰ περὶ τῆς διαθήκης ἀκούσειεν.
From many things indeed one might see your wickedness, but especially if one should hear about the will.
τοῦ γὰρ πατρός, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τὰ καταλειφθέντα πάντʼ ἐν τῇ διαθήκῃ γράψαντος, καὶ τὸν οἶκον ὅπως μισθώσουσιν, ταύτην μὲν οὐκ ἀπέδωκεν, ἵνα μὴ τὸ πλῆθος εὕροιμʼ ἐγὼ τῶν χρημάτων ἐξ αὐτῆς, ὡμολόγει δὲ ταῦτα, ἃ μάλιστʼ οὐχ οἷόν τʼ ἦν ἐξάρνῳ γενέσθαι διὰ τὴν περιφάνειαν.
For while my father, O men of the jury, wrote all the left property in the will, and how they should lease the estate, this man did not produce it, lest I should find the amount of the property from it, but he admitted those things which it was absolutely impossible to deny because of their notoriety.
§43ἦν δὲ ταῦθʼ ἃ γεγράφθαι φησὶν ἐν τῇ διαθήκῃ, δύο μὲν τάλαντα Δημοφῶντα λαβεῖν εὐθύς, τὴν δʼ ἀδελφὴν ὅταν ἡλικίαν ἔχῃ (τοῦτο δʼ ἔμελλεν εἰς ἔτος δέκατον γενήσεσθαι), τοῦτον δʼ ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς καὶ τὴν μητέρα τὴν ἐμὴν καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν οἰκεῖν, Θηριππίδην δʼ ἑβδομήκοντα μνᾶς λαβόντα καρπώσασθαι, τέως ἀνὴρ ἐγὼ γενοίμην.
And these were the things which he says were written in the will: that Demophon should receive two talents immediately; that my sister, when she came of age (which was to be in her tenth year), [should marry Demophon], and that this man should receive eighty minae and marry my mother and inhabit the house; and that Therippides should receive seventy minae and enjoy the interest until I became a man.
τὰ δʼ ἄλλʼ ὅσʼ ἐμοὶ χωρὶς τούτων κατελείφθη, καὶ τὸ μισθοῦν τὸν οἶκον ἠφάνιζεν ἐκ τῆς διαθήκης, οὐ συμφέρον αὑτῷ νομίζων ταῦτʼ ἐπιδειχθῆναι παρʼ ὑμῖν.
But all the other things that were left to me apart from these, and the leasing of the house, he made disappear from the will, not thinking it to his advantage that these things should be shown before you.
§44ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν ὡμολόγηθʼ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τούτου τὸν πατέρʼ ἡμῶν τελευτῶντα τοσοῦτον ἀργύριον τούτων ἑκάστῳ δοῦναι, τεκμήριον οἱ δικάζοντες τότε τὰς ὁμολογίας ἐποιήσαντο ταύτας τοῦ πλήθους τῶν χρημάτων·
Since, therefore, it was admitted by this very man that our father on his deathbed gave so much money to each of these, the judges at that time made these admissions a proof of the total amount of the property.
ὅστις γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν ὄντων τέτταρα τάλαντα καὶ τρισχιλίας προῖκα καὶ δωρεὰν ἔδωκεν, φανερὸν ἦν ὅτι οὐκ ἀπὸ μικρᾶς οὐσίας, ἀλλὰ πλέον ἢ διπλασίας ἧς ἐμοὶ κατέλειπεν ταῦτʼ ἀφεῖλεν.
For a man who out of his possessions gave four talents and three thousand as a dowry and gift, it was obvious that he took these not from a small estate, but from one more than double that which he left to me.
§45οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἐδόκει τὸν μὲν υἱὸν ἐμὲ πένητα βούλεσθαι καταστῆσαι, τούτους δὲ πλουσίους ὄντας ἔτι πλουσιωτέρους ποιῆσαι ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἕνεκα τοῦ πλήθους τῶν ἐμοὶ καταλειπομένων Θηριππίδῃ τε τὰς ἑβδομήκοντα μνᾶς καὶ Δημοφῶντι τὰ δύο τάλαντα, οὔπω μέλλοντι τῇ ἀδελφῇ τῇ ἐμῇ συνοικήσειν, καρποῦσθαι δοῦναι.
For it would not seem that he wished to make me, his son, a pauper, while desiring to make them, who were already rich, still richer; but rather, because of the largeness of what was left to me, he gave seventy minae to Therippides and two talents to Demophon (who was not yet about to marry my sister) to enjoy the fruits.
ταῦτα δὴ τὰ χρήματʼ οὐδαμοῦ παραδοὺς ἐφαίνετο, οὐδʼ ἐλάττω μικροῖς· ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἀνηλωκέναι, τὰ δʼ οὐ λαβεῖν ἔφη, τὰ δʼ οὐκ εἰδέναι, τὰ δὲ τὸν δεῖνʼ ἔχειν, τὰ δʼ ἔνδον εἶναι, τὰ δὲ πάντα μᾶλλον ἢ ὅπου παρέδωκεν εἶχεν λέγειν.
This money, however, he was shown to have delivered up nowhere, not even the smallest amount; instead, he claimed to have spent some, not to have received others, to be ignorant of some, that so-and-so had others, and that some were inside—he could say anything rather than where he had delivered them.