§31πρὸς μὲν οὖν τὰ συμφέροντʼ ἐὰν ἐξετάζῃς, καλῶς βεβουλευμένον αὐτὸν εὑρήσεις· εἰ δὲ πρὸς γένους δόξαν ἀναίνει Φορμίωνα κηδεστήν, ὅρα μὴ γελοῖον ᾖ σὲ ταῦτα λέγειν.
Therefore, if you examine it in light of what is advantageous, you will find that he made a wise decision; but if, in respect of the reputation of your family, you reject Phormio as a relative by marriage, take care lest it be ridiculous for you to say this.
εἰ γάρ τις ἔροιτό σε, ποῖόν τινʼ ἡγεῖ τὸν πατέρα τὸν σεαυτοῦ εἶναι, χρηστὸν εὖ οἶδʼ ὅτι φήσειας ἄν. πότερον οὖν οἴει μᾶλλον ἐοικέναι τὸν τρόπον καὶ πάντα τὸν βίον Πασίωνι σαυτὸν ἢ τουτονί;
For if someone were to ask you what sort of person you consider your own father to be, I know well that you would say "a good man." Do you then think that you yourself are more like Pasion in character and your whole life, or this man?
ἐγὼ μὲν εὖ οἶδʼ ὅτι τοῦτον.
I know well that this man is.
εἶθʼ ὅς ἐστιν ὁμοιότερος σοῦ τῷ σῷ πατρί, τοῦτον, εἰ τὴν μητέρα τὴν σὴν ἔγημεν, ἀναίνει.
And then, although he is more like your father than you are, do you reject him because he married your mother?
§32ἀλλὰ μὴν ὅτι γε δόντος καὶ ἐπισκήψαντος τοῦ σοῦ πατρὸς ταῦτʼ ἐπράχθη, οὐ μόνον ἐκ τῆς διαθήκης ἔστιν ἰδεῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ σὺ μάρτυς αὐτὸς γέγονας.
Moreover, that this was done because your father gave her and enjoined it, can be seen, men of Athens, not only from the will, but you yourself have become a witness to it.
ὅτε γὰρ τὰ μητρῷα πρὸς μέρος ἠξίους νέμεσθαι, ὄντων παίδων ἐκ τῆς γυναικὸς Φορμίωνι τουτῳί, τόθʼ ὡμολόγεις κυρίως δόντος τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ σοῦ κατὰ τοὺς νόμους αὐτὴν γεγαμῆσθαι.
For when you demanded to divide your mother's property according to your share, although this Phormio already had children by her, you then admitted that she had been married in accordance with the laws, your father having validly given her.
εἰ γὰρ αὐτὴν εἶχε λαβὼν ἀδίκως ὅδε μηδενὸς δόντος, οὐκ ἦσαν οἱ παῖδες κληρονόμοι, τοῖς δὲ μὴ κληρονόμοις οὐκ ἦν μετουσία τῶν ὄντων.
For if he had taken her and held her unjustly without anyone giving her, the children would not have been heirs, and those who were not heirs had no share in the estate.
ἀλλὰ μὴν ὅτι ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ λέγω, μεμαρτύρηται τὸ τέταρτον μέρος λαβεῖν καὶ ἀφεῖναι τῶν ἐγκλημάτων ἁπάντων.
And indeed, that I speak the truth has been testified by your receiving the fourth share and releasing him from all claims.
§33κατʼ οὐδὲν τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, δίκαιον οὐδὲν ἔχων εἰπεῖν, ἀναιδεστάτους λόγους ἐτόλμα λέγειν πρὸς τῷ διαιτητῇ, περὶ ὧν προακηκοέναι βέλτιόν ἐσθʼ ὑμᾶς, ἕνα μὲν τὸ παράπαν μὴ γενέσθαι διαθήκην, ἀλλʼ εἶναι τοῦτο πλάσμα καὶ σκευώρημʼ ὅλον, ἕτερον δʼ ἕνεκα τούτου πάντα ταῦτα συγχωρεῖν τὸν πρὸ τοῦ χρόνον καὶ οὐχὶ δικάζεσθαι, ὅτι μίσθωσιν ἤθελεν αὐτῷ φέρειν Φορμίων πολλὴν καὶ ὑπισχνεῖτʼ οἴσειν· ἐπειδὴ δʼ οὐ ποιεῖ ταῦτα, τηνικαῦτα, φησίν, δικάζομαι. §34ὅτι δὲ ταῦτʼ ἀμφότερʼ, ἐὰν λέγῃ, ψεύσεται καὶ τοῖς ὑφʼ ἑαυτοῦ πεπραγμένοις ἐναντίʼ ἐρεῖ, σκοπεῖτʼ ἐκ τωνδί.
Therefore, men of Athens, having nothing just to say on any point, he dared to make most shameless statements before the arbitrator, about which it is better for you to be informed beforehand: one, that no will was ever made at all, but that this is an entire fiction and forgery; the other, that he consented to all these things during the preceding time and did not go to law for this reason, because Phormio wanted to pay him a large rent and promised to pay it, "but since he does not do this," he says, "now I go to law." But that in both of these statements, if he makes them, he will be speaking falsely and contradicting his own actions, consider from the following.
ὅταν μὲν τοίνυν τὴν διαθήκην ἀρνῆται, ἐκ τίνος τρόπου πρεσβεῖα λαβὼν τὴν συνοικίαν κατὰ τὴν διαθήκην ἔχει, τοῦτʼ ἐρωτᾶτʼ αὐτόν.
When, therefore, he denies the will, ask him this: in what way did he receive the lodging-house as a special bequest and hold it in accordance with the will?
οὐ γὰρ ἐκεῖνό γʼ ἐρεῖ, ὡς ἃ μὲν πλεονεκτεῖν τόνδʼ ἔγραψεν ὁ πατήρ, κύριʼ ἐστὶν τῆς διαθήκης, τὰ δʼ ἄλλʼ ἄκυρα.
For surely he will not say that those parts of the will in which his father wrote that he should have an advantage are valid, but that the other parts are invalid.
§35ὅταν δʼ ὑπὸ τῶν τοῦδʼ ὑποσχέσεων ὑπάγεσθαι φῇ, μέμνησθʼ ὅτι μάρτυρας ὑμῖν παρεσχήμεθα, οἳ χρόνον πολὺν τοῦδʼ ἀπηλλαγμένου μισθωταὶ τούτοις ἐγίγνοντο τῆς τραπέζης καὶ τοῦ ἀσπιδοπηγείου.
And when he says that he was led astray by this man's promises, remember that we have produced witnesses for you, who for a long time after Apollodorus had retired from the business became lessees of the bank and the shield-factory under them.
καίτοι τόθʼ, ὁπηνίκʼ ἐμίσθωσεν ἐκείνοις, τῷδʼ ἐγκαλεῖν παραχρῆμʼ ἐχρῆν, εἴπερ ἀληθῆ ἦν ὑπὲρ ὧν τότʼ ἀφεὶς νῦν τούτῳ δικάζεται.
And yet at that time, when he leased them to those men, he ought to have brought his charge against Phormio immediately, if there were any truth in the claims for which, though he then released them, he is now suing him.
ὡς τοίνυν ἀληθῆ λέγω, καὶ πρεσβεῖά τε τὴν συνοικίαν ἔλαβεν κατὰ τὴν διαθήκην, καὶ τῷδʼ οὐχ ὅπως ἐγκαλεῖν ᾤετο δεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐπῄνει, λαβὲ τὴν μαρτυρίαν. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
To prove, then, that I am speaking the truth, and that he both received the lodging-house as a special bequest in accordance with the will, and, so far from thinking he ought to accuse this man, actually praised him, take the deposition. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
§36ἵνα τοίνυν εἰδῆτʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅσα χρήματʼ ἔχων ἐκ τῶν μισθώσεων καὶ ἐκ τῶν χρεῶν ὡς ἀπορῶν καὶ πάντʼ ἀπολωλεκὼς ὀδυρεῖται, βραχέʼ ἡμῶν ἀκούσατε.
In order, therefore, that you may know, men of Athens, what large sums of money he has received from the leases and the debts, while he will lament as if he were destitute and had lost everything, hear a brief statement from us.
οὗτος γὰρ ἐκ μὲν τῶν χρεῶν ὁμοῦ τάλαντʼ εἴκοσιν εἰσπέπρακται ἐκ τῶν γραμμάτων ὧν ὁ πατὴρ κατέλιπεν, καὶ τούτων ἔχει πλέον ἢ τὰ ἡμίσεα (πολλῶν γὰρ τὰ μέρη τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀποστερεῖ).
For from the debts alone this man has collected altogether twenty talents from the books which his father left, and of this he holds more than half (for in many cases he deprives his brother of his share).
§37ἐκ δὲ τῶν μισθώσεων, ὀκτὼ μὲν ἐτῶν ἃ Φορμίων εἶχε τὴν τράπεζαν, ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἑκάστου, τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς ὅλης μισθώσεως· καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐστὶ δέκα τάλαντα καὶ τετταράκοντα μναῖ· δέκα δὲ τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα, ὧν ἐμίσθωσαν ὕστερον Ξένωνι καὶ Εὐφραίῳ καὶ Εὔφρονι καὶ Καλλιστράτῳ, τάλαντον τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἑκάστου.
And from the leases, during the eight years that Phormio held the bank, eighty minae each year, being half of the whole rent; and this amounts to ten talents and forty minae; and for the ten years after that, during which they later leased it to Xenon, Euphraeus, Euphron, and Callistratus, one talent each year.
§38χωρὶς δὲ τούτων, ἐτῶν ἴσως εἴκοσι τῆς ἐξ ἀρχῆς νεμηθείσης οὐσίας, ἧς αὐτὸς ἐπεμελεῖτο, τὰς προσόδους, πλέον ἢ μνᾶς τριάκοντα.
And besides these, from the estate originally partitioned, which he managed himself, for perhaps twenty years, he has received the revenues, amounting to more than thirty minae a year.
ἐὰν δʼ ἅπαντα συνθῆτε, ὅσʼ ἐνείματο, ὅσʼ εἰσεπράξατο, ὅσʼ εἴληφε μίσθωσιν, πλέον ἢ τετταράκοντα τάλαντʼ εἰληφὼς φανήσεται, χωρὶς ὧν οὗτος εὖ πεποίηκεν, καὶ τῶν μητρῴων, καὶ ὧν ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης ἔχων οὐκ ἀποδίδωσι πένθʼ ἡμιταλάντων καὶ ἑξακοσίων δραχμῶν.
If you add all together, what he divided, what he collected, and what he has received in rent, he will be shown to have received more than forty talents, quite apart from the benefits this man has conferred upon him, and his mother's property, and the two talents and a half and six hundred drachmae which he holds from the bank and does not repay.