§32νὴ Δίʼ, ἀπράγμων γάρ τις ἴσως ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπος καὶ οὐ φιλόδικος.
By Zeus, because perhaps he is some peaceable man and not fond of lawsuits.
ἐβουλόμην τἄν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τοιοῦτον αὐτὸν εἶναι.
I could wish indeed, O judges, that he were such a man.
νυνὶ δὲ ὑμεῖς μὲν οὕτως ἐστὲ κοινοὶ καὶ φιλάνθρωποι, ὥστε οὐδὲ τοὺς τῶν τριάκοντα υἱεῖς φυγαδεῦσαι ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἠξιώσατε· οὗτος δὲ ἐμοὶ μετὰ Μενεκλέους τοῦ πάντων τούτων ἀρχιτέκτονος ἐπιβουλεύσας, καὶ ἐξ ἀντιλογίας καὶ λοιδορίας πληγὰς συναψάμενος, ἐπιτεμὼν τὴν κεφαλὴν τὴν αὑτοῦ τραύματος εἰς Ἄρειον πάγον με προσεκαλέσατο, ὡς φυγαδεύσων ἐκ τῆς πόλεως.
But now, while you are so impartial and humane that you did not even think fit to banish the sons of the Thirty from the city, this man, having plotted against me with Menecles, the architect of all these schemes, and having engaged in blows arising from an altercation and abusive language, having cut his own head, summoned me before the Areopagus on a charge of wounding, with the intention of banishing me from the city.
§33καὶ εἰ μὴ Εὐθύδικος ὁ ἰατρός, πρὸς ὃν οὗτοι τὸ πρῶτον ἦλθον δεόμενοι ἐπιτεμεῖν τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, πρὸς τὴν ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴν εἶπεν τὴν ἀλήθειαν πᾶσαν, τοιαύτην ἂν δίκην οὗτος εἰλήφει παρʼ ἐμοῦ τοῦ μηδὲν ἀδικοῦντος, ἣν ὑμεῖς οὐδὲ κατὰ τῶν τὰ μέγιστʼ ἀδικούντων ὑμᾶς ἐπιχειρήσαιτʼ ἂν ποιήσασθαι.
And if Euthydicus the physician, to whom these men first went, begging him to cut his head, had not told the whole truth to the Council of Areopagus, this man would have exacted such a punishment from me, who had done no wrong, as you would not even attempt to inflict upon those who do you the greatest wrongs.
ἵνα δὲ μὴ δοκῶ διαβάλλειν αὐτόν, ἀνάγνωθί μοι τὰς μαρτυρίας.
And so that I may not seem to be slandering him, read the depositions for me.
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.
DEPOSITIONS.
§34τοῦτον μὲν τοίνυν οὕτω μέγαν καὶ φοβερὸν ἀγῶνά μοι οὐχ ὡς εὐήθης ὤν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐπίβουλος καὶ κακοῦργος κατεσκεύασεν.
This great and terrible contest, then, he prepared against me, not because he is simple-minded, but because he is scheming and mischievous.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀνόματος οὗ ἔθετο αὐτῷ ὁ πατὴρ Βοιωτόν, ὥσπερ καὶ πρὸς ὑμᾶς μεμαρτύρηται, ἐπειδὴ ἐκεῖνος ἐτελεύτησε, Μαντίθεον ἑαυτὸν ἐγγράψας εἰς τοὺς δημότας, καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐμοὶ καὶ πατρὸς καὶ δήμου προσαγορευόμενος, οὐ μόνον τὴν δίκην ταύτην, περὶ ἧς νυνὶ δικάζομαι, ἀνάδικον ἐποίησεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ χειροτονησάντων ὑμῶν ἐμὲ ταξίαρχον, ἧκεν αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τὸ δικαστήριον δοκιμασθησόμενος, δίκην δὲ ἐξούλης ὠφληκώς, ταύτην οὐκ αὐτὸς ὠφληκέναι φησίν, ἀλλʼ ἐμέ.
After this, instead of the name Boeotus, which his father gave him, as has also been testified to you, after he died, having registered himself in the demesmen as Mantitheus, and being addressed by the same father and deme as I, he not only made this lawsuit, about which I am now suing, subject to a new trial, but also, when you had elected me taxiarch, he himself came to the court to be examined for the office, and having lost a suit of ejectment, he claims not that he lost it, but I.
§35ὡς δʼ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν, κακά μοι παρέχων ἠνάγκασέ με λαχεῖν αὑτῷ δίκην περὶ τοῦ ὀνόματος, οὐχ ἵνα χρήματα παρʼ αὐτοῦ λάβω, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ἀλλʼ ἵνα, ἐὰν ὑμῖν δοκῶ δεινὰ πάσχειν καὶ βλάπτεσθαι μεγάλα, οὑτοσὶ καλῆται Βοιωτός, ὥσπερ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῷ ἔθετο.
To speak in brief, by causing me trouble he compelled me to bring a suit against him concerning the name, not that I might get money from him, O judges, but so that, if I seem to you to suffer terrible things and to be greatly harmed, this man might be called Boeotus, just as his father gave him.
ὅτι τοίνυν ἀληθῆ καὶ ταῦτα λέγω, λαβέ μοι καὶ τὰς περὶ τούτων μαρτυρίας.
That I speak the truth in these things too, take the depositions concerning them.
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.
DEPOSITIONS.
§36πρὸς τούτοις τοίνυν καὶ ὅτι ἐγὼ στρατευόμενος καὶ μετὰ Ἀμεινίου ξενολογήσας, ἄλλοθέν τε χρήματα εὐπορήσας καὶ ἐκ Μυτιλήνης παρὰ τοῦ ὑμετέρου προξένου Ἀπολλωνίδου καὶ παρὰ τῶν φίλων τῆς πόλεως λαβὼν τριακοσίους στατῆρας Φωκαιᾶς, ἀνήλωσα εἰς τοὺς στρατιώτας, ἵνα πρᾶξίς τις πραχθείη καὶ ὑμῖν καὶ ἐκείνοις συμφέρουσα, §37περὶ τούτων μοι δικάζεται ὡς πατρικὸν κεκομισμένῳ χρέως παρὰ τῆς πόλεως τῆς Μυτιληναίων, Καμμῦ τῷ τυραννοῦντι Μυτιλήνης ὑπηρετῶν, ὃς καὶ ὑμῖν κοινῇ καὶ ἐμοὶ ἰδίᾳ ἐχθρός ἐστιν.
In addition to these, and because when I was on campaign and was raising mercenaries with Ameinias, having obtained money from other sources and having received from Mytilene, from your proxenus Apollonides and from the friends of the city, three hundred Phocaean staters, I spent it on the soldiers, so that some enterprise profitable both to you and to them might be achieved, concerning these things he brings a suit against me, claiming that I have recovered a paternal debt from the city of the Mytilenaeans, acting in the interest of Cammys, the tyrant of Mytilene, who is an enemy to you in common and to me individually.
ὅτι δὲ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν, ἣν ἐψηφίσαντο αὐτῷ δωρεὰν οἱ Μυτιληναῖοι, εὐθὺς αὐτὸς ἐκομίσατο, καὶ ὡς οὐδὲν ὠφείλετο αὐτῷ χρέως ἐν Μυτιλήνῃ, τῶν ὑμετέρων φίλων παρέξομαι μαρτυρίαν.
And that our father himself immediately recovered the gift which the Mytilenaeans voted to him, and that no debt was owed to him in Mytilene, I will present the testimony of your friends.
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
DEPOSITION.
§38ἔχων τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ λέγειν, ἃ οὗτος καὶ εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ εἰς ὑμῶν ἐνίους ἡμάρτηκεν, ἀναγκάζομαι διὰ τὸ ὀλίγον εἶναί μοι τὸ ὕδωρ παραλιπεῖν.
Having, therefore, O judges, many other terrible things to say, which this man has committed both against me and against some of you, I am forced to omit them because my water is scarce.
νομίζω δὲ καὶ ἐκ τούτων ὑμῖν ἱκανῶς ἐπιδεδεῖχθαι, ὡς οὐ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐστίν, ἀγῶνα μέν μοι περὶ φυγῆς κατασκευάζειν καὶ δίκας οὐδὲν προσηκούσας δικάζεσθαι, πρὸς δὲ τὸν διαιτητὴν ἀπαντᾶν ἀπαράσκευον.
But I think that from these things too it has been sufficiently shown to you that it does not belong to the same man to prepare a trial involving exile against me and to bring lawsuits that do not concern him at all, and yet to meet the arbitrator unprepared.
ὥστε περὶ μὲν τούτων ἂν ἐπιχειρῇ λέγειν, οὐκ οἴομαι ὑμᾶς ἀποδέξεσθαι.
So that if he attempts to speak about these things, I do not think you will accept it.