§39ἀλλὰ νὴ Δία ταῦθʼ ἡ πόλις εἴληφεν, καὶ δεινὰ πέπονθας πολλὰ καταλελῃτουργηκώς.
But, by Zeus, (you will say) the city has received these sums, and you have suffered hardship after performing many public services.
ἀλλʼ ἃ μὲν ἐκ κοινῶν ἐλῃτούργεις τῶν χρημάτων, σὺ καὶ ἁδελφὸς ἀνηλώσατε· ἃ δʼ ὕστερον, οὐκ ἔστιν ἄξια μὴ ὅτι δυοῖν ταλάντοιν προσόδου, ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ εἴκοσι μνῶν.
However, as for the liturgies you performed from the common funds, you and your brother spent them together; and those performed subsequently are not worth even twenty minae, let alone a revenue of two talents.
μηδὲν οὖν τὴν πόλιν αἰτιῶ, μηδʼ ἃ σὺ τῶν ὄντων αἰσχρῶς καὶ κακῶς ἀνήλωκας, ὡς ἡ πόλις εἴληφεν, λέγε.
Therefore, do not blame the city at all, nor say that what you have shamefully and badly wasted of your property has been received by the city.
§40ἵνα δʼ εἰδῆτʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τό τε πλῆθος τῶν χρημάτων ὧν εἴληφε, καὶ τὰς λῃτουργίας ἃς λελῃτούργηκεν, ἀναγνώσεται ὑμῖν καθʼ ἓν ἕκαστον.
And in order that you may know, men of Athens, both the total amount of money he has received and the liturgies he has performed, he shall read them to you one by one.
λαβέ μοι τὸ βιβλίον τουτὶ καὶ τὴν πρόκλησιν ταυτηνὶ καὶ τὰς μαρτυρίας ταυτασί. ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ. ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΙΣ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.
Take for me this document, this challenge, and these depositions. ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ. ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΙΣ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.
§41τοσαῦτα μὲν τοίνυν χρήματʼ εἰληφὼς καὶ χρέα πολλῶν ταλάντων ἔχων, ὧν τὰ μὲν παρʼ ἑκόντων, τὰ δʼ ἐκ τῶν δικῶν εἰσπράττει, ἃ τῆς μισθώσεως ἔξω τῆς τραπέζης καὶ τῆς ἄλλης οὐσίας, ἣν κατέλιπεν Πασίων, ὠφείλετʼ ἐκείνῳ καὶ νῦν παρειλήφασιν οὗτοι, καὶ τοσαῦτʼ ἀνηλωκὼς ὅσʼ ὑμεῖς ἠκούσατε, οὐδὲ πολλοστὸν μέρος τῶν προσόδων, μὴ ὅτι τῶν ἀρχαίων, εἰς τὰς λῃτουργίας, ὅμως ἀλαζονεύσεται καὶ τριηραρχίας ἐρεῖ καὶ χορηγίας.
Having, therefore, received so much money and holding debts of many talents—some of which he collects from willing debtors and others through lawsuits, debts which were owed to Pasion outside the lease of the bank and the other estate he left, and which these men have now inherited—and having spent as much as you have heard, not even a tiny fraction of his income, not to speak of his principal, on the liturgies, he will nevertheless boast and talk of trierarchies and choregies.
§42ἐγὼ δʼ, ὡς μὲν οὐκ ἀληθῆ ταῦτʼ ἐρεῖ, ἐπέδειξα, οἶμαι μέντοι, κἂν εἰ ταῦτα πάντʼ ἀληθῆ λέγοι, κάλλιον εἶναι καὶ δικαιότερον τόνδʼ ἀπὸ τῶν αὑτοῦ λῃτουργεῖν ὑμῖν ἢ τούτῳ δόντας τὰ τούτου, μικρὰ τῶν πάντων αὐτοὺς μετασχόντας, τόνδε μὲν ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἐνδείαις ὁρᾶν, τοῦτον δʼ ὑβρίζοντα καὶ εἰς ἅπερ εἴωθεν ἀναλίσκοντα.
Now, I have shown that he will not be speaking the truth in these claims; but I think that even if he were speaking the absolute truth in all of them, it would be more honorable and more just for this man Phormio to perform liturgies for you from his own property than that you, by giving this man's property to Apollodorus and sharing only a small part of the whole, should see Phormio in extreme want, while Apollodorus behaves insolently and wastes it on his usual pleasures.
§43ἀλλὰ μὴν περί γε τῆς εὐπορίας, ὡς ἐκ τῶν τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ σοῦ κέκτηται, καὶ ὧν ἐρωτήσειν ἔφησθα, πόθεν τὰ ὄντα κέκτηται Φορμίων, μόνῳ τῶν ὄντων ἀνθρώπων σοὶ τοῦτον οὐκ ἔνεστʼ εἰπεῖν τὸν λόγον.
Furthermore, regarding his wealth, and your claim that he acquired it from your father's property, and your statement that you would ask where Phormio got his wealth, you are the only man in the world who is not permitted to use this argument.
οὐδὲ γὰρ Πασίων ὁ σὸς πατὴρ ἐκτήσαθʼ εὑρὼν οὐδὲ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῷ παραδόντος, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοῖς αὑτοῦ κυρίοις Ἀντισθένει καὶ Ἀρχεστράτῳ τραπεζιτεύουσι πεῖραν δοὺς ὅτι χρηστός ἐστι καὶ δίκαιος, ἐπιστεύθη.
For your father Pasion did not acquire his wealth by finding it or because his father handed it down to him, but because, having given proof of his honesty and justice while working for his masters Antisthenes and Archestratus when they were bankers, he was trusted.
§44ἔστι δʼ ἐν ἐμπορίῳ καὶ χρήμασιν ἐργαζομένοις ἀνθρώποις φιλεργὸν δόξαι καὶ χρηστὸν εἶναι τὸν αὐτὸν θαυμαστὸν ἡλίκον.
And for men in commerce and those who work with money, to be thought both industrious and honest at the same time is of astonishingly great value.
οὔτʼ οὖν ἐκείνῳ τοῦθʼ οἱ κύριοι παρέδωκαν, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸς ἔφυ χρηστός, οὔτε τῷδʼ ὁ σὸς πατήρ· σὲ γὰρ ἂν πρότερον τοῦδε χρηστὸν ἐποίησεν, εἰ ἦν ἐπʼ ἐκείνῳ.
Therefore, his masters did not hand this quality down to him, but he was honest by nature; nor did your father hand it down to this man Phormio; for he would have made you honest before him, if it had been in his power.
εἰ δὲ τοῦτʼ ἀγνοεῖς, ὅτι πίστις ἀφορμὴ πασῶν ἐστι μεγίστη πρὸς χρηματισμόν, πᾶν ἂν ἀγνοήσειας.
And if you do not know this, that trust is the greatest capital of all for business, you must be ignorant of everything.
χωρὶς δὲ τούτων πολλὰ καὶ τῷ σῷ πατρὶ καὶ σοὶ καὶ ὅλως τοῖς ὑμετέροις πράγμασι Φορμίων γέγονε χρήσιμος.
Apart from these things, Phormio has been highly useful to your father, to you, and to your affairs in general.
ἀλλʼ οἶμαι τῆς σῆς ἀπληστίας καὶ τοῦ σοῦ τρόπου τίς ἂν δύναιτʼ ἐφικέσθαι.
But I think no one could satisfy your greed and your character.
§45καὶ δῆτα θαυμάζω πῶς οὐ λογίζει πρὸς σεαυτόν, ὅτι ἔστιν Ἀρχεστράτῳ τῷ ποτὲ τὸν σὸν πατέρα κτησαμένῳ υἱὸς ἐνθάδε, Ἀντίμαχος, πράττων οὐ κατʼ ἀξίαν, ὃς οὐ δικάζεταί σοι, οὐδὲ δεινά φησι πάσχειν, εἰ σὺ μὲν χλανίδα φορεῖς, καὶ τὴν μὲν λέλυσαι, τὴν δʼ ἐκδέδωκας ἑταίραν, καὶ ταῦτα γυναῖκʼ ἔχων ποιεῖς, καὶ τρεῖς παῖδας ἀκολούθους περιάγει, καὶ ζῇς ἀσελγῶς ὥστε καὶ τοὺς ἀπαντῶντας αἰσθάνεσθαι, αὐτὸς δʼ ἐκεῖνος πολλῶν ἐνδεής ἐστιν.
Indeed, I wonder why you do not reflect in your own mind that there is here a son of Archestratus, who once owned your father, Antimachus, who is living in a manner unworthy of his rank. He does not bring lawsuits against you, nor does he say he suffers hardship, although you wear a fine cloak, have ransomed one courtesan, given away another in marriage—and that while you have a wife—and go about with three attendant slaves, and live so dissolutely that even those who meet you notice it, while he himself is in want of many things.
§46οὐδὲ τὸν Φορμίωνʼ ἐκεῖνος οὐχ ὁρᾷ.
Nor does he fail to see Phormio.
καίτοι εἰ κατὰ τοῦτʼ οἴει σοι προσήκειν τῶν τούτου, ὅτι τοῦ πατρός ποτʼ ἐγένετο τοῦ σοῦ, ἐκείνῳ προσήκει μᾶλλον ἢ σοί· ὁ γὰρ αὖ σὸς πατὴρ ἐκείνων ἐγένετο, ὥστε καὶ σὺ καὶ οὗτος ἐκείνου γίγνεσθʼ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ λόγου.
Yet, if you think you have a claim on Phormio's property on the ground that he once belonged to your father, he has a better claim than you; for your father in turn belonged to his family, so that both you and Phormio would belong to him according to this argument.
σὺ δʼ εἰς τοῦθʼ ἥκεις ἀγνωμοσύνης ὥσθʼ ἃ προσήκει σοι τοὺς λέγοντας ἐχθροὺς νομίζειν, ταῦτʼ αὐτὸς ποιεῖς ἀνάγκην εἶναι λέγειν.
But you have reached such a pitch of folly that you yourself force us to say things which you ought to consider those who say them your enemies.