§18καὶ ταῦτα ὅτι ἀληθῆ ἐστιν, τὸν δόντα τὸ ἀργύριον Φορμίωνα ὑμῖν μάρτυρα παρέξομαι, ἐπειδὰν καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἄλλου συμβολαίου διηγήσωμαι ὑμῖν, ἵνα τῇ αὐτῇ μαρτυρίᾳ περὶ ὅλου τοῦ χρέως ἀκούσαντες εἰδῆτε ὅτι ἀληθῆ λέγω.
And that these things are true, I will present to you Phormio, who paid the money, as a witness, as soon as I have also related to you about the other transaction, so that having heard about the whole debt through the same testimony you may know that I speak the truth.
καλῶ δʼ ὑμῖν καὶ τὸν Ἀντιφάνην τὸν δανείσαντα τὸ ἀργύριον τούτῳ, τὰς χιλίας δραχμάς, ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ, καὶ παρόντα ὅτε ἀπέλαβε Φίλιππος τὸ ἀργύριον παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἐνθάδε.
I also call for you Antiphanes, who lent him the money, the one thousand drachmas, in Calauria, and who was present when Philippus received the money here from my father.
§19τοῦ μὲν γὰρ μαρτυρίαν με ἐμβαλέσθαι πρὸς τὸν διαιτητὴν παρεκρούσατο, φάσκων ἀεί μοι μαρτυρήσειν εἰς τὴν κυρίαν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡ δίαιτα ἦν, προσκληθεὶς ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκίας (οὐ γὰρ ἦν φανερός), ἔλιπε τὴν μαρτυρίαν πεισθεὶς ὑπὸ τούτου.
For as to entering his deposition before the arbitrator, he eluded me, constantly saying that he would testify for me at the principal trial; but when the arbitration was being held, though summoned from his house (for he was not openly visible), he failed to give his testimony, having been persuaded by this man.
τιθέντος δέ μου αὐτῷ τὴν δραχμὴν τοῦ λιπομαρτυρίου κατὰ τὸν νόμον, ὁ διαιτητὴς οὐ κατεδιῄτα, ἀλλʼ ἀπιὼν ᾤχετο ἀποδιαιτήσας τούτου τὴν δίαιταν, ἑσπέρας ἤδη οὔσης.
When I laid down for him the one drachma for the failure to testify according to the law, the arbitrator did not decide against him, but departed and went away, having decided the arbitration in favor of this man, as it was already evening.
§20νυνὶ δὲ τῷ Ἀντιφάνει εἴληχα βλάβης ἰδίαν δίκην, ὅτι μοι οὔτʼ ἐμαρτύρησεν οὔτʼ ἐξωμόσατο κατὰ τὸν νόμον.
But now, I have brought a private suit for damages against Antiphanes, because he neither testified for me nor took the oath of disclaimer according to the law.
καὶ ἀξιῶ αὐτὸν ἀναβάντα εἰπεῖν ἐναντίον ὑμῶν διομοσάμενον, πρῶτον μὲν εἰ ἐδάνεισε Τιμοθέῳ ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ χιλίας δραχμάς, δεύτερον δʼ εἰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς Φίλιππος ἀπέλαβεν ἐνθάδε τοῦτο τὸ ἀργύριον.
And I demand that he come forward and say under oath before you, first, whether he lent Timotheus one thousand drachmas in Calauria, and second, whether Philippus received this money here from my father.
§21σχεδὸν μὲν οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς οὗτος ὡμολόγει πρὸς τῷ διαιτητῇ ἀποδοῦναι τῷ Φιλίππῳ τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν τὰς χιλίας δραχμάς, οὐ μέντοι αὑτῷ γέ φησιν δανεῖσαι, ἀλλὰ τῷ Βοιωτίῳ ναυάρχῳ, καὶ ὑποθεῖναί φησιν αὐτὸν τούτου τοῦ ἀργυρίου χαλκόν.
Indeed, even this man himself almost admitted before the arbitrator that my father had paid the one thousand drachmas to Philippus, but he says that he did not lend it to him, but to the Boeotian admiral, and he says that he gave bronze as security for this money.
ὡς δὲ οὐκ ἀληθῆ ἔλεγεν, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸς δανεισάμενος ἀποστερεῖ, ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς διδάξω, ἐπειδὰν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν ὀφείλει καθʼ ἕκαστον ὑμῖν διηγήσωμαι.
But that he was not speaking the truth, but having himself borrowed it is now defrauding us, I will show you, as soon as I have also related to you in detail about the other things which he owes.
§22ἀφικομένου γὰρ Ἀλκέτου καὶ Ἰάσονος ὡς τοῦτον ἐν τῷ μαιμακτηριῶνι μηνὶ τῷ ἐπʼ Ἀστείου ἄρχοντος ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν τούτου, βοηθησόντων αὐτῷ, καὶ καταγομένων εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τὴν ἐν Πειραιεῖ τὴν ἐν τῇ Ἱπποδαμείᾳ ἑσπέρας ἤδη οὔσης, ἀπορούμενος ὑποδέξασθαι αὐτούς, πέμψας ὡς τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν Αἰσχρίωνα τὸν ἀκόλουθον τὸν αὑτοῦ, ἐκέλευσεν αἰτήσασθαι στρώματα καὶ ἱμάτια καὶ φιάλας ἀργυρᾶς δύο, καὶ μνᾶν ἀργυρίου δανείσασθαι.
For when Alcetas and Jason arrived at his house in the month of Maimacterion in the archonship of Asteius, for his trial, to help him, and lodged in his house in Peiraeus, the one in the Hippodameia, as it was already evening, being at a loss how to entertain them, he sent his attendant Aeschrion to my father and ordered him to ask for bedding and cloaks and two silver bowls, and to borrow a mina of silver.
§23ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐμὸς τοῦ Αἰσχρίωνος τοῦ ἀκολούθου τοῦ τούτου τούς τε ἀφιγμένους καὶ τὴν χρείαν εἰς ἣν ᾐτεῖτο, ἐφʼ ἅ τε ἦλθεν ἔχρησεν, καὶ τὴν μνᾶν τοῦ ἀργυρίου, ἣν ἐδανείζετο, ἐδάνεισεν.
My father, having heard from Aeschrion, this man's attendant, both about those who had arrived and the need for which he made the request, lent the things for which he came, and also lent the mina of silver which he wished to borrow.
ἀπολελυμένῳ τοίνυν τῆς αἰτίας πολλὴ συνέβαινεν αὐτῷ μετὰ ταῦτα χρημάτων ἀπορία εἴς τε τὰς ἰδίας χρείας καὶ εἰς τὰς δημοσίας εἰσφοράς, ἃ ὁρῶν ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐμὸς οὐκ ἐτόλμα τοῦτον εὐθὺς ἀπαιτεῖν τὸ ἀργύριον· §24οὔτε γὰρ ἂν τοῦτον εὐπορήσανθʼ ἡγεῖτο ἀδικῆσαι αὑτόν, οὔτʼ ἂν αὐτὸς ἀποροῦντα τοῦτον ἔχειν ὁπόθεν εἰσπράξειεν.
Now, after he had been acquitted of the charge, great distress for money befell him after this, both for his private needs and for the public taxes, seeing which my father did not have the heart to demand the money from him immediately; for on the one hand, he did not think that this man, when prosperous, would wrong him, and on the other, he did not know from what source he could collect it from him while he was in distress.
ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν ἀπῆλθον ὅ τε Ἀλκέτας καὶ ὁ Ἰάσων, τὰ μὲν στρώματα καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια πάλιν ἀπήνεγκεν ὁ Αἰσχρίων ὁ ἀκόλουθος ὁ τούτου, τὰς δὲ φιάλας τὰς δύο οὐκ ἀπήνεγκεν, ἃς ᾐτήσατο ὅτεπερ καὶ τὰ στρώματα καὶ τὴν μνᾶν τοῦ ἀργυρίου ἐδανείσατο, ἀφικομένων ὡς τοῦτον Ἀλκέτου καὶ Ἰάσονος.
Now, when both Alcetas and Jason had departed, the attendant Aeschrion brought back the bedding and the cloaks, but he did not bring back the two bowls, which he had asked for at the very time when he also borrowed the bedding and the mina of silver when Alcetas and Jason arrived at his house.
§25μέλλων τοίνυν ἀποδημεῖν ὡς βασιλέα, καὶ διαπραξάμενος ἐκπλεῦσαι ὡς βασιλεῖ στρατηγήσων τὸν ἐπʼ Αἴγυπτον πόλεμον, ἵνα μὴ δῷ ἐνθάδε λόγον καὶ εὐθύνας τῆς στρατηγίας, μεταπεμψάμενος τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν εἰς τὸ Παράλιον τῶν τε προϋπηργμένων εἰς αὑτὸν ἐπῄνει,
Being then about to go abroad to the King, and having arranged to sail out to act as general for the King in the Egyptian war, so that he might not render an account and audit of his generalship here, having sent for my father to the Paralium, he praised him for the services previously rendered to him,