§56ἐνθυμείσθω γὰρ ἕκαστος ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοὺς ἑαυτῷ προσήκοντας τίνʼ ἄλλον ἂν δύναιτʼ ἐπιδεῖξαι τρόπον ἢ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐμοί, μαρτυροῦντας, ὀμνύοντας, πάλαι τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς ὄντας; διὰ ταῦτα τοίνυν ἐγὼ πιστεύων ἐμαυτῷ κατέφυγον εἰς ὑμᾶς.
For let each of you consider, gentlemen of Athens, in what other way he could show his own relatives except in the same way as I do, with witnesses testifying, swearing, and being the same persons all along from the beginning?\nTherefore, trusting in myself, I fled to you for refuge.
ὁρῶ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐ μόνον τῶν ἀποψηφισαμένων Ἁλιμουσίων ἐμοῦ κυριώτερʼ ὄντα τὰ δικαστήρια, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ τοῦ δήμου, δικαίως· κατὰ γὰρ πάνθʼ αἱ παρʼ ὑμῖν εἰσι κρίσεις δικαιόταται. §57ἐνθυμεῖσθε τοίνυν κἀκεῖνο, ὅσοι τῶν μεγάλων δήμων ἐστέ, ὡς οὐδένʼ ἀπεστερεῖτʼ οὔτε κατηγορίας οὔτʼ ἀπολογίας.
For I see, gentlemen of Athens, that the courts have greater authority than not only the Halimusiens who voted against me, but also the council and the assembly, and justly so; for in all respects the decisions in your court are the most just.\n Consider also this, as many of you as belong to the large demes, how you deprive no one of either accusation or defense.
καὶ πόλλʼ ἀγαθὰ γένοιτο πᾶσιν ὑμῖν τοῖς δικαίως τούτῳ τῷ πράγματι χρησαμένοις, ὅτι καὶ τῶν ἀναβαλέσθαι δεομένων οὐκ ἀφῄρησθε τὸ παρασκευάσασθαι· ᾧ καὶ τοὺς συκοφαντοῦντας καὶ διʼ ἔχθραν ἐπιβουλεύοντας ἐξηλέγχετε. §58καὶ ὑμᾶς μὲν ἄξιον ἐπαινεῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοὺς δὲ καλῷ καὶ δικαίῳ πράγματι μὴ καλῶς χρησαμένους ψέγειν.
And may many blessings come to all of you who have used this matter justly, because you have not deprived even those who need to postpone of the opportunity to prepare; by which you also expose those who play the sycophant and plot out of enmity.\n And indeed it is worthy to praise you, gentlemen of Athens, and to blame those who did not use a beautiful and just institution in a beautiful way.
ἐν οὐδενὶ τοίνυν εὑρήσετε τῶν δήμων δεινότερα γεγενημένα τῶν παρʼ ἡμῖν.
You will find that in none of the demes have worse things happened than those in ours.
οὗτοι γὰρ ἀδελφῶν ὁμομητρίων καὶ ὁμοπατρίων τῶν μέν εἰσιν ἀπεψηφισμένοι, τῶν δʼ οὔ, καὶ πρεσβυτέρων ἀνθρώπων ἀπόρων, ὧν τοὺς υἱεῖς ἐγκαταλελοίπασιν· καὶ τούτων ἂν βούλησθε, μάρτυρας παρέξομαι. §59ὃ δὲ πάντων δεινότατον οἱ συνεστηκότες πεποιήκασιν (καί μοι πρὸς Διὸς καὶ θεῶν μηδεὶς ὑπολάβῃ δυσκόλως, ἐὰν τοὺς ἠδικηκότας ἐμαυτὸν πονηροὺς ὄντας ἐπιδεικνύω· νομίζω γὰρ ὑμῖν τὴν τούτων πονηρίαν δεικνὺς εἰς αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμα λέγειν τὸ γενόμενόν μοι)· οὗτοι γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, βουλομένους τινὰς ἀνθρώπους ξένους πολίτας γενέσθαι, Ἀναξιμένην καὶ Νικόστρατον, κοινῇ διανειμάμενοι πέντε δραχμὰς ἕκαστος προσεδέξαντο.
For of brothers born of the same mother and the same father, they have voted to expel some and not others, and of poor old men, whose sons they have left in the register while expelling them; and if you wish, I will present witnesses of these things.\n But the most outrageous thing of all that the conspirators have done (and by Zeus and the gods, let no one take it ill if I show that those who have wronged me are wicked; for I believe that by showing their wickedness I am speaking to the very matter of what has happened to me) — for these men, gentlemen of Athens, when certain foreign men wished to become citizens, namely Anaximenes and Nicostratus, divided five drachmae each among themselves and admitted them.
καὶ ταῦτʼ οὐκ ἂν ἐξομόσαιτʼ Εὐβουλίδης οὐδʼ οἱ μετʼ αὐτοῦ μὴ οὐκ εἰδέναι.
And Eubulides and those with him could not swear to deny that they knew this.
καὶ νῦν τούτων οὐκ ἀπεψηφίσαντο.
And now they have not voted to expel these men.
τί οὖν οὐκ ἂν οἴεσθε τούτους ἰδίᾳ ποιῆσαι, οἳ κοινῇ ταῦτʼ ἐτόλμων; §60πολλούς, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οἱ μετʼ Εὐβουλίδου συνεστῶτες καὶ ἀπολωλέκασιν καὶ σεσῴκασιν ἕνεκʼ ἀργυρίου.
What then do you think these men would not do privately, who dared to do such things in common?\n Gentlemen of the jury, the conspirators with Eubulides have both destroyed and saved many people for the sake of money.
ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ πρότερον (ἐρῶ δʼ εἰς αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι) δημαρχῶν ὁ Εὐβουλίδου πατήρ, ὥσπερ εἶπον, Ἀντίφιλος, τεχνάζει βουλόμενος παρά τινων λαβεῖν ἀργύριον, καὶ ἔφη τὸ κοινὸν γραμματεῖον ἀπολωλέναι, ὥστʼ ἔπεισε διαψηφίσασθαι τοὺς Ἁλιμουσίους περὶ αὑτῶν, καὶ κατηγορῶν δέκα τῶν δημοτῶν ἐξέβαλεν, οὓς ἅπαντας πλὴν ἑνὸς κατεδέξατο τὸ δικαστήριον.
For even previously (and I shall speak to the very matter, gentlemen of Athens), when the father of Eubulides, Antiphilus, was demarch as I said, wishing to get money from some people, he schemed and claimed that the common register was lost, so that he persuaded the Halimusiens to vote concerning themselves, and by accusing them he expelled ten of the demesmen, all of whom except one the court restored.
καὶ ταῦτα πάντες ἴσασιν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι. §61πολλοῦ γʼ ἔδεόν τινας ἐγκαταλιπεῖν τῶν μὴ Ἀθηναίων, ὅπου καὶ τοὺς ὄντας πολίτας συνιστάμενοι ἐξέβαλον, οὓς τὸ δικαστήριον κατεδέξατο.
And all the older men know these things.\n They were far from leaving out any of those who were not Athenians, seeing that they even conspired and expelled those who were real citizens, whom the court restored.
καὶ ὢν ἐχθρὸς τῷ ἐμῷ πατρὶ τότʼ οὐ μόνον οὐ κατηγόρησεν, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τὴν ψῆφον ἤνεγκεν ὡς οὐκ ἦν Ἀθηναῖος.
And though he was an enemy to my father, at that time he not only did not accuse him, but did not even cast a vote to declare that he was not an Athenian.
τῷ τοῦτο δῆλον;
By what is this clear?
ὅτι ἁπάσαις ἔδοξεν δημότης εἶναι.
Because he was approved as a demesman by all the votes.
καὶ τί δεῖ περὶ τῶν πατέρων λέγειν;
And what need is there to speak about our fathers?
ἀλλʼ Εὐβουλίδης αὐτὸς οὑτοσί, ἡνίκʼ ἐνεγράφην ἐγὼ καὶ ὀμόσαντες οἱ δημόται δικαίως πάντες περὶ ἐμοῦ τὴν ψῆφον ἔφερον, οὔτε κατηγόρησεν οὔτʼ ἐναντίαν τὴν ψῆφον ἤνεγκεν· καὶ γὰρ ἐνταῦθα πάλιν ἐμὲ πάντες ἐψηφίσαντο δημότην.
But this Eubulides himself, when I was registered and all the demesmen, having sworn, justly cast their votes concerning me, neither accused me nor cast an opposing vote; for there again they all voted for me to be a demesman.
καὶ εἴ φασίν με τοῦτο ψεύδεσθαι, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐμοῦ ὕδατος ὅστις βούλεται τούτων τἀναντία μαρτυρησάτω. §62εἰ τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοῦτο δοκοῦσιν οὗτοι λέγειν μάλιστʼ ἰσχυρόν, ὡς ἀπεψηφίσαντό μου νῦν οἱ δημόται, ἐγὼ τετράκις ἐπιδεικνύω πρότερον, ὅθʼ ὁσίως ἄνευ συστάσεως ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν πατέρα δημότας αὑτῶν εἶναι ψηφισαμένους, πρῶτον μέν γε τοῦ πατρὸς δοκιμασθέντος, εἶτʼ ἐμοῦ, εἶτʼ ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ διαψηφίσει, ὅτʼ ἠφάνισαν οὗτοι τὸ γραμματεῖον· τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον προκρίναντες ἐμὲ ἐψηφίσαντʼ ἐν τοῖς εὐγενεστάτοις κληροῦσθαι τῆς ἱερωσύνης τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ.
And if they say that I am lying about this, let any of them testify to the contrary while my water is running.\n Therefore, gentlemen of Athens, if these men think this is their strongest argument, namely that the demesmen have now voted to expel me, I show that on four previous occasions, when they voted piously and without conspiracy, they voted that both I and my father were their demesmen: first indeed when my father was scrutinized, second when I was, third in the former voting when these men made the register disappear, and lastly when they selected me as a candidate and voted that I should draw lots among the most nobly born for the priesthood of Heracles.
καὶ ταῦτα πάντα μεμαρτύρηται.
And all these things have been testified.