§18διαβεβλήκασι γάρ μου τὸν πατέρα, ὡς ἐξένιζεν·
For they have slandered my father, claiming that he acted like a foreigner.
καὶ ὅτι μὲν ἁλοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ὑπὸ τὸν Δεκελεικὸν πόλεμον καὶ πραθεὶς εἰς Λευκάδα, Κλεάνδρῳ περιτυχὼν τῷ ὑποκριτῇ πρὸς τοὺς οἰκείους ἐσώθη δεῦρο πολλοστῷ χρόνῳ, παραλελοίπασιν, ὥσπερ δὲ δέον ἡμᾶς διʼ ἐκείνας τὰς ἀτυχίας ἀπολέσθαι, τὸ ξενίζειν αὐτοῦ κατηγορήκασιν.
However, they have ignored the fact that, having been captured by the enemy during the Deceleian War and sold to Leucas, he met the actor Cleander and was saved after a long time, returning here to his relatives. Instead, as if we ought to be ruined because of those misfortunes, they have accused him of acting like a foreigner.
§19ἐγὼ δʼ ἐξ αὐτῶν τούτων μάλιστʼ οἶμαι ὑμῖν ἐμαυτὸν Ἀθηναῖον ὄντʼ ἐπιδείξειν.
But I think that from these very facts I shall best show to you that I am an Athenian.
καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ὡς ἑάλω καὶ ἐσώθη, μάρτυρας ὑμῖν παρέξομαι, ἔπειθʼ ὅτι ἀφικόμενος τῆς οὐσίας παρὰ τῶν θείων τὸ μέρος μετέλαβεν, εἶθʼ ὅτι οὔτʼ ἐν τοῖς δημόταις οὔτʼ ἐν τοῖς φράτερσιν οὔτʼ ἄλλοθι οὐδαμοῦ τὸν ξενίζοντʼ οὐδεὶς πώποτʼ ᾐτιάσαθʼ ὡς εἴη ξένος.
And first, I shall produce witnesses to you that he was captured and saved; next, that when he returned, he received his share of the property from his uncles; and further, that neither among the demesmen, nor among the phratry-members, nor anywhere else did anyone ever accuse him of being a foreigner on the grounds of his acting like one.
καί μοι λαβὲ τὰς μαρτυρίας. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ. §20περὶ μὲν τῆς ἁλώσεως καὶ τῆς σωτηρίας, ἣν συνέβη γενέσθαι τῷ πατρὶ δεῦρο, ἀκηκόατε.
Please take the testimonies for me. [TESTIMONIES] Concerning the capture and the rescue that happened to my father to bring him back here, you have heard.
ὡς δʼ ὑμέτερος ἦν πολίτης, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί (τὸ γὰρ ὂν καὶ ἀληθὲς οὕτως ὑπάρχει), μάρτυρας καλῶ τοὺς ζῶντας ὑμῖν τῶν συγγενῶν τῶν πρὸς πατρός.
But to show that he was your citizen (for the actual truth is indeed so), I call as witnesses for you those of his paternal relatives who are alive.
κάλει δή μοι πρῶτον μὲν Θουκριτίδην καὶ Χαρισιάδην· ὁ γὰρ τούτων πατὴρ Χαρίσιος ἀδελφὸς ἦν τοῦ πάππου τοῦ ἐμοῦ Θουκριτίδου καὶ Λυσαρέτης τῆς ἐμῆς τήθης (ἀδελφὴν γὰρ ὁ πάππος οὑμὸς ἔγημεν οὐχ ὁμομητρίαν), θεῖος δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμοῦ·
Call for me first Thoucritides and Charisiades; for their father Charisius was the brother of my grandfather Thoucritides and of my grandmother Lysarete (for my grandfather married his own half-sister by a different mother), and the uncle of my father.
§21ἔπειτα Νικιάδην· καὶ γὰρ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ Λυσανίας ἀδελφὸς ἦν τοῦ Θουκριτίδου καὶ τῆς Λυσαρέτης, θεῖος δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμοῦ·
Next, call Niciades; for his father Lysanias was the brother of Thoucritides and Lysarete, and the uncle of my father.
ἔπειτα Νικόστρατον· καὶ γὰρ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ Νικιάδης ἀδελφιδοῦς ἦν τῷ πάππῳ τῷ ἐμῷ καὶ τῇ τήθῃ, ἀνεψιὸς δὲ τῷ πατρί.
Next, call Nicostratus; for his father Niciades was the nephew of my grandfather and grandmother, and the cousin of my father.
καί μοι κάλει τούτους πάντας.
Please call all of these for me.
σὺ δʼ ἐπίλαβε τὸ ὕδωρ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ. §22τῶν μὲν τοίνυν πρὸς ἀνδρῶν τῷ πατρὶ συγγενῶν ἀκηκόατʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ μαρτυρούντων καὶ διομνυμένων Ἀθηναῖον εἶναι καὶ συγγενῆ τὸν ἐμὸν πατέρʼ αὑτοῖς·
And you, stop the water. [WITNESSES] Thus, gentlemen of Athens, you have heard the paternal relatives of my father both testifying and swearing solemn oaths that my father was an Athenian and their relative.
ὧν οὐδεὶς δήπου, παραστησάμενος τοὺς συνεισομένους αὑτῷ τὰ ψευδῆ μαρτυροῦντι, κατʼ ἐξωλείας ἐπιορκεῖ.
Surely none of these men, in the presence of those who would know that he was testifying falsely, would commit perjury under pain of utter destruction.
λαβὲ δὴ καὶ τὰς τῶν πρὸς γυναικῶν τῷ πατρὶ συγγενῶν μαρτυρίας. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ. §23οἱ μὲν τοίνυν ζῶντες οὗτοι τῶν συγγενῶν τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ πρὸς ἀνδρῶν καὶ πρὸς γυναικῶν μεμαρτυρήκασιν, ὡς ἦν ἀμφοτέρωθεν Ἀθηναῖος καὶ μετῆν τῆς πόλεως αὐτῷ δικαίως.
Take now also the testimonies of my father's maternal relatives. [TESTIMONIES] These living relatives of my father, both on the male and female sides, have thus testified that he was an Athenian on both sides and justly shared in the citizenship of the state.
κάλει δή μοι καὶ τοὺς φράτερας, ἔπειτα τοὺς γεννήτας. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.
λαβὲ δὴ καὶ τὰς τῶν δημοτῶν μαρτυρίας, καὶ τὰς τῶν συγγενῶν περὶ τῶν φρατέρων, ὡς εἵλοντό με φρατρίαρχον. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ. §24τὰ μὲν τοίνυν ὑπὸ τῶν συγγενῶν καὶ φρατέρων καὶ δημοτῶν καὶ γεννητῶν, ὧν προσήκει, μαρτυρούμενʼ ἀκηκόατε.
Call for me now also the phratry-members, and then the members of the genos. [WITNESSES] Take now also the testimonies of the demesmen, and those of the relatives concerning the phratry-members, showing that they chose me as phratriarch. [TESTIMONIES] You have therefore heard the testimonies given by the relatives, phratry-members, demesmen, and genos-members, to whom it belongs.
ἐξ ὧν ἔστιν ὑμῖν εἰδέναι, πότερόν ποτʼ ἀστὸς ἢ ξένος ἦν ᾧ ταῦθʼ ὑπῆρχεν.
From these, you can judge whether the man who possessed these rights was a citizen or a foreigner.
καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὲν εἰς ἕνʼ ἢ δύʼ ἀνθρώπους κατεφεύγομεν, εἴχομεν ἄν τινʼ ὑποψίαν παρεσκευάσθαι τούτους·
For if we had fled for refuge to only one or two men, you might have some suspicion that we had suborned them.
εἰ δʼ ἐν ἅπασιν, ὅσοισπερ ἕκαστος ὑμῶν, ἐξητασμένος φαίνεται καὶ ζῶν ὁ πατὴρ καὶ νῦν ἐγώ, λέγω φράτερσι, συγγενέσι, δημόταις, γεννήταις, πῶς ἔνεστιν ἢ πῶς δυνατὸν τούτους ἅπαντας μὴ μετʼ ἀληθείας ὑπάρχοντας κατεσκευάσθαι;
But if my father during his lifetime and I now are shown to have been tested among all those whom each of you is tested—I mean phratry-members, relatives, demesmen, and genos-members—how is it possible or conceivable that all of these could have been suborned if it were not based on the truth?
§25εἰ μὲν τοίνυν εὔπορος ὢν ὁ πατὴρ χρήματα δοὺς τούτοις ἐφαίνετο πείσας συγγενεῖς αὐτοὺς ἑαυτοῦ φάσκειν εἶναι, λόγον εἶχεν ἂν ὑποψίαν τινʼ ἔχειν ὡς οὐκ ἦν ἀστός·
If, then, my father had been wealthy and appeared to have bribed these men to declare themselves his relatives, it would be reasonable to have some suspicion that he was not a citizen.
εἰ δὲ πένης ὢν ἅμα συγγενεῖς τε παρέσχετο τοὺς αὐτοὺς καὶ μεταδιδόντας τῶν ὄντων ἐπεδείκνυε, πῶς οὐκ εὔδηλον ὅτι τῇ ἀληθείᾳ προσῆκε τούτοις;
But if, being poor, he produced the same relatives and showed that they shared their property with him, is it not clear that he truly belonged to them?
οὐ γὰρ ἂν δήπου, εἴ γε μηδενὶ ἦν οἰκεῖος, χρήματʼ αὐτῷ προστιθέντες οὗτοι τοῦ γένους μετεδίδοσαν.
For surely, if he were related to no one, they would not have given him money and shared their family descent with him.
ἀλλʼ ἦν, ὡς τό τʼ ἔργον ἐδήλωσεν καὶ ὑμῖν μεμαρτύρηται.
Rather, it was as the facts showed and has been testified to you.
ἔτι τοίνυν ἀρχὰς ἔλαχεν καὶ ἦρξεν δοκιμασθείς.
Furthermore, he was appointed to public offices by lot and served after passing the scrutiny.
καί μοι λαβὲ τὴν μαρτυρίαν. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
Take the testimony for me. [TESTIMONY]