§15καίτοι εἰκός γʼ ἦν αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι,
τί με προσκαλεῖ, ἄνθρωπε;
And yet it would have been natural, men of Athens, for him to say: "Why do you summon me, fellow?
ἀποδέδωκα γὰρ τούτῳ τῷ παρεστηκότι τὸ χρυσίον
, καὶ ἅμα ὁμολογοῦντα παρέχειν τὸν Λάμπιν·
For I have paid back the gold to this man who is standing beside you," and at the same time to present Lampis as admitting it.
νυνὶ δʼ οὐδέτερος αὐτῶν οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν εἶπεν ἐν τοιούτῳ καιρῷ.
But as it was, neither of them said anything at all at such a critical moment.
καὶ ὅτι ἀληθῆ λέγω, λαβέ μοι τὴν μαρτυρίαν τῶν κλητήρων.
And to prove that I am speaking the truth, take the deposition of the summoners.
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
THE DEPOSITION.
§16λαβὲ δή μοι καὶ τὸ ἔγκλημα ὃ ἔλαχον αὐτῷ πέρυσιν· ὅ ἐστιν οὐδενὸς ἔλαττον τεκμήριον, ὅτι οὐδέπω τότʼ ἔφησεν Φορμίων ἀποδεδωκέναι τὸ χρυσίον Λάμπιδι.
Take also, please, the plaint which I filed against him last year; which is as strong a proof as any that Phormio did not then claim to have paid back the gold to Lampis.
ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑ.
τοῦτο τὸ ἔγκλημα ἔγραφον ἐγώ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐδαμόθεν ἄλλοθεν σκοπῶν ἀλλʼ ἢ ἐκ τῆς ἀπαγγελίας τῆς Λάμπιδος, ὃς οὐκ ἔφασκεν οὔτε τὰ χρήματα ἐντεθεῖσθαι τοῦτον οὔτε τὸ χρυσίον ἀπειληφέναι·
THE PLAINT. This plaint, men of Athens, I drew up looking to nothing else than the report of Lampis, who declared that Phormio had neither loaded the goods nor had he himself received the gold.
μὴ γὰρ οἴεσθέ με οὕτως ἀπόπληκτον εἶναι καὶ παντελῶς μαινόμενον, ὥστε τοιοῦτο γράφειν ἔγκλημα ὁμολογοῦντος τοῦ Λάμπιδος ἀπειληφέναι τὸ χρυσίον, ὑφʼ οὗ ἔμελλον ἐξελεγχθήσεσθαι.
For you surely do not think me so brainless and utterly mad as to draft a plaint of this kind if Lampis had admitted receiving the gold, whereby I was bound to be refuted by him.
§17ἔτι δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, κἀκεῖνο σκέψασθε· αὐτοὶ γὰρ οὗτοι παραγραφὴν διδόντες πέρυσιν, οὐκ ἐτόλμησαν ἐν τῇ παραγραφῇ γράψαι ὡς ἀποδεδώκασιν Λάμπιδι τὸ χρυσίον.
Furthermore, men of Athens, consider this also: these very men, when they entered a special plea last year, did not dare to write in the special plea that they had paid back the gold to Lampis.
καί μοι λαβὲ αὐτὴν τὴν παραγραφήν.
Take the special plea itself for me.
ΠΑΡΑΓΡΑΦΗ.
ἀκούετε, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅτι οὐδαμοῦ γέγραπται ἐν τῇ παραγραφῇ ὡς ἀποδέδωκεν τὸ χρυσίον Φορμίων Λάμπιδι, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐμοῦ διαρρήδην γράψαντος εἰς τὸ ἔγκλημα ὃ ἠκούσατε ἀρτίως, ὅτι οὔτε τὰ χρήματα ἔνθοιτο εἰς τὴν ναῦν οὔτʼ ἀπέδωκεν τὸ χρυσίον.
THE SPECIAL PLEA. You hear, men of Athens, that nowhere is it written in the special plea that Phormio paid back the gold to Lampis, and this despite my having explicitly written in the plaint, which you heard just now, that he neither loaded the goods on the ship nor paid back the gold.
τίνα οὖν ἄλλον χρὴ περιμένειν ὑμᾶς μάρτυρα, ὅταν τηλικαύτην μαρτυρίαν παρʼ αὐτῶν τούτων ἔχητε;
What other witness then do you need to wait for, when you have such strong testimony from these very men?
§18μελλούσης δὲ τῆς δίκης εἰσιέναι εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον ἐδέοντο ἡμῶν ἐπιτρέψαι τινί· καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐπετρέψαμεν Θεοδότῳ ἰσοτελεῖ κατὰ συνθήκας.
When the case was about to enter the court, they begged us to refer it to someone; and we referred it to Theodotus, a privileged resident, under an agreement.
καὶ ὁ Λάμπις μετὰ ταῦτα νομίσας αὑτῷ ἀσφαλὲς ἤδη εἶναι μαρτυρεῖν ὅ τι βούλοιτο, μερισάμενος τὸ ἐμὸν χρυσίον μετὰ Φορμίωνος τουτουί, ἐμαρτύρει τἀναντία οἷς πρότερον εἰρήκει.
And after this, Lampis, thinking it was now safe for him to testify whatever he pleased, having shared my gold with Phormio here, testified to the exact opposite of what he had said before.
§19οὐ γὰρ ὅμοιόν ἐστιν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, εἰς τὰ ὑμέτερα πρόσωπα ἐμβλέποντα τὰ ψευδῆ μαρτυρεῖν καὶ πρὸς διαιτητῇ· παρʼ ὑμῖν μὲν γὰρ ὀργὴ μεγάλη καὶ τιμωρία ὑπόκειται τοῖς τὰ ψευδῆ μαρτυροῦσιν, πρὸς δὲ τῷ διαιτητῇ ἀκινδύνως καὶ ἀναισχύντως μαρτυροῦσιν ὅ τι ἂν βούλωνται.
For it is not the same thing, men of Athens, to testify falsely looking into your faces, and to do so before an arbitrator; for before you, great anger and punishment await those who testify falsely, but before the arbitrator they testify whatever they please with impunity and shamelessness.
ἀγανακτοῦντος δέ μου καὶ σχετλιάζοντος, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐπὶ τῇ τόλμῃ τοῦ Λάμπιδος, §20καὶ παρεχομένου πρὸς τὸν διαιτητὴν τὴν αὐτὴν μαρτυρίαν ἥνπερ καὶ νῦν πρὸς ὑμᾶς παρέχομαι, τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆς προσελθόντων αὐτῷ μεθʼ ἡμῶν, ὅτε οὔτε τὸ χρυσίον ἔφη ἀπειληφέναι παρὰ τούτου οὔτε τὰ χρήματα αὐτὸν ἐνθέσθαι εἰς τὴν ναῦν, οὕτως ὁ Λάμπις κατὰ κράτος ἐξελεγχόμενος τὰ ψευδῆ μαρτυρῶν καὶ πονηρὸς ὤν, ὡμολόγει μὲν εἰρηκέναι ταῦτα πρὸς τοῦτον, οὐ μέντοι γε ἐντὸς ὢν εἰπεῖν αὑτοῦ.
And while I was indignant and complaining bitterly, men of Athens, at the audacity of Lampis, and presenting to the arbitrator the same testimony which I am now presenting to you, of those who originally went with us to him when he said that he had neither received the gold from Phormio nor had Phormio loaded the goods on the ship, Lampis was thus utterly convicted of testifying falsely and being a scoundrel, and he admitted having said those things to Phormio, but claimed that he was not in his right mind when he said them.
καί μοι ἀνάγνωθι ταύτην τὴν μαρτυρίαν.
Please read this deposition.
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
THE DEPOSITION.
§21ἀκούσας τοίνυν ἡμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὁ Θεόδοτος πολλάκις, καὶ νομίσας τὸν Λάμπιν ψευδῆ μαρτυρεῖν, οὐκ ἀπέγνω τῆς δίκης, ἀλλʼ ἀφῆκεν ἡμᾶς εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον· καταγνῶναι μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἐβουλήθη διὰ τὸ οἰκείως ἔχειν Φορμίωνι τουτῳί, ὡς ἡμεῖς ὕστερον ἐπυθόμεθα, ἀπογνῶναι δὲ τῆς δίκης ὤκνει, ἵνʼ αὐτὸς μὴ ἐπιορκήσειεν.
So, men of Athens, Theodotus, having heard us many times and believing that Lampis was testifying falsely, did not dismiss the suit, but sent us to the court; for he did not wish to condemn Phormio here because of his friendship with him, as we afterwards learned, but he hesitated to dismiss the suit lest he himself should commit perjury.
§22ἐξ αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ πράγματος λογίσασθε, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, παρʼ ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς, ὁπόθεν ἔμελλεν οὗτος ἀποδώσειν τὸ χρυσίον.
From the facts themselves, men of Athens, reflect in your own minds from what source this man was likely to pay back the gold.
ἐνθένδε μὲν γὰρ ἐξέπλει οὐκ ἐνθέμενος εἰς τὴν ναῦν τὰ χρήματα καὶ ὑποθήκην οὐκ ἔχων, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς χρήμασιν ἐπιδανεισάμενος· ἐν Βοσπόρῳ δʼ ἀπρασίαν τῶν φορτίων κατέλαβεν, καὶ τοὺς τὰ ἑτερόπλοα δανείσαντας μόλις ἀπήλλαξεν.
For he sailed from here without loading the goods on the ship and without having any security, but having borrowed additional money on my funds; and in the Bosporus he found that his cargo was unsold, and he was barely able to satisfy the creditors for the outward voyage.