§46πότερον ἐγράψατο ἂν παρανόμων τὸν ταῦτʼ εἰπόντα, ἢ οὔ;
Would he have prosecuted for illegal proposals the one who said these things, or not?
εἰ μὲν γὰρ μή, πῶς χρὴ πιστεύειν αὐτῷ λέγοντι, ὡς φυλάττει τοὺς παράνομα γράφοντας;
For if he would not, how is one to believe him when he says that he guards against those who propose illegal measures?
εἰ δʼ ἐγράψατʼ ἄν, πῶς οὐ δεινόν ἐστιν ἑτέρου μὲν γράψαντος κωλύειν ἂν τέλος ἔχειν τὸ ψήφισμα, ἵνα μὴ πάντες τοῦτο ποιῶσι, καὶ γραφὴν ἀπενεγκόντα παραγραψάμενον σαφῶς τοὺς νόμους κωλύειν τὸ πρᾶγμα, §47νυνὶ δὲ αὐτὸν τοῦτον, μήτε πείσαντα τὸν δῆμον μήτε κοινὸν καταστήσαντα τὸ πρᾶγμα, γράφεσθαι τῶν νόμων αὐτῷ ἀπαγορευόντων (καὶ δεινὰ φήσει αὐτίκα δὴ μάλα πάσχειν, εἰ μὴ ταῦτʼ ἐξέσται ποιεῖν αὐτῷ, καὶ διέξεισι τὰς ἐκ τῶν νόμων ζημίας, αἷς ἔνοχος ἐὰν ἁλῷ γενήσεται) τῶν δὲ νόμων μὴ φροντίζειν, ἀλλʼ ἀξιοῦν αὑτῷ τηλικαύτην δωρεὰν δεδόσθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν, ὅσην οὐδʼ αἰτῆσαι τετόλμηκεν οὐδείς;
But if he would have prosecuted, how is it not outrageous that, on the one hand, when another proposed it, he would have prevented the decree from taking effect, so that all might not do this, and by bringing an indictment and clearly citing the laws in opposition, would have prevented the matter, but on the other hand, now, he himself, without having persuaded the people nor having made the matter common to all, brings indictments although the laws forbid him to do so (and he will say very shortly that he is suffering outrageous treatment if he is not to be allowed to do these things, and he will go through the penalties under the laws to which he will be liable if convicted), yet he pays no regard to the laws, but demands that so great a gift be granted to him by you, as no one else has ever dared even to ask for?
§48ὅτι μὲν οὖν περὶ τῆς ἐνδείξεως οὐδὲν ἕξει δίκαιον λέγειν οὔτε Θεοκρίνης οὔτε τῶν ὑπὲρ τούτου λεγόντων οὐδείς, σχεδὸν εἰδέναι πάντας ὑμᾶς νομίζω.
Therefore, that neither Theocrines nor any of those speaking on his behalf will have anything just to say concerning the information, I think almost all of you know.
οἶμαι δʼ αὐτοὺς ἐπιχειρήσειν λέγειν, ὡς οὐδʼ εἰσὶν ἐνδείξεις τούτων ὅσοι μὴ ἐν ἀκροπόλει ἐγγεγραμμένοι εἰσίν, οὐδʼ ἐστὶ δίκαιον τούτους ὑπολαμβάνειν ὀφείλειν ὧν οὐδεὶς παρέδωκε τοῖς πράκτορσι τὰ ὀνόματα, §49ὥσπερ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοήσοντας τὸν νόμον, ὃς ὀφείλειν κελεύει ἀπʼ ἐκείνης τῆς ἡμέρας, ἀφʼ ἧς ἂν ὄφλῃ ἢ παραβῇ τὸν νόμον ἢ τὸ ψήφισμα, ἢ οὐ πᾶσι δῆλον ὂν ὅτι πολλαχῶς καὶ ὀφείλουσι τῷ δημοσίῳ καὶ ἐκτίνουσιν οἱ βουλόμενοι τοῖς νόμοις πείθεσθαι, καὶ τοῦτο ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ νόμου δῆλον.
But I think they will attempt to say that there are not even informations against those who are not registered on the Acropolis, nor is it just to suppose that those owe whose names no one has handed over to the collectors, as if you were going to be ignorant of the law, which commands that one owes from that day on which one incurs the debt or violates the law or the decree, or as if it were not clear to all that in many ways people both owe to the public treasury and pay if they wish to obey the laws; and this is clear from the law itself.
καί μοι πάλιν λαβὲ τὸν νόμον τοῦτον.
Take this law for me again.
ΝΟΜΟΣ.
ἀκούεις, ὦ μιαρὸν σὺ θηρίον, ὅ τι κελεύει;
LAW. Do you hear, you abominable beast, what it commands?
ἀφʼ ἧς ἂν ὄφλῃ ἢ τὸν νόμον παραβῇ. §50ἀκούω τοίνυν αὐτοὺς κἀκεῖνον ὑμῖν μέλλειν δεικνύναι τὸν νόμον, ὃς ἀπαλείφειν κελεύει τοῖς ἐγγεγραμμένοις ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀφλήματος καθʼ ὅ τι ἂν ἐκτίνῃ, καὶ ἐρήσεσθαι πῶς ἀπὸ τοῦ μηδʼ ἐγγεγραμμένου ἀπαλείψουσιν, ὥσπερ οὐ περὶ μὲν τῶν ἐγγεγραμμένων τοῦτον κείμενον, περὶ δὲ τῶν μὴ ἐγγεγραμμένων ὀφειλόντων δʼ ἐκεῖνον, ὃς κελεύει ἀπʼ ἐκείνης ὀφείλειν τῆς ἡμέρας, ἀφʼ ἧς ἂν ὄφλῃ ἢ παραβῇ τὸν νόμον ἢ τὸ ψήφισμα.
'From the day on which one incurs the debt or violates the law.' I hear, then, that they and he are going to show you that law which commands to erase from the debt for those registered according to whatever one pays, and to ask how they will erase from one who is not even registered—as if this law were not enacted concerning those registered, and that other law concerning those who are not registered but owe, which commands to owe from that day on which one incurs the debt or violates the law or the decree.
§51τί οὖν οὐκ ἀγραφίου με, φήσει, γράφει, τὸν ὀφείλοντα καὶ μὴ ἐγγεγραμμένον; ὅτι ὁ νόμος οὐ κατὰ τῶν ὀφειλόντων καὶ μὴ ἐγγραφέντων κελεύει τὰς γραφὰς τοῦ ἀγραφίου εἶναι, ἀλλʼ οἵτινες ἂν ἐγγραφέντες καὶ μὴ ἐκτείσαντες τῇ πόλει τὸ ὄφλημα ἐξαλειφθῶσι.
'Why then,' he will say, 'does he not indict me for non-registration, since I owe and am not registered?' Because the law does not command that indictments for non-registration be against those who owe and are not registered, but against those who, having been registered and not having paid the debt to the city, are erased.
καί μοι λαβὲ τὸν νόμον καὶ ἀνάγνωθι.
Take the law for me and read it.
ΝΟΜΟΣ.
LAW.
§52ἀκούετε τοῦ νόμου, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὅτι διαρρήδην λέγει, ἐάν τις τῶν ὀφειλόντων τῷ δημοσίῳ μὴ ἐκτείσας τὸ ὄφλημα τῇ πόλει ἐξαλειφθῇ, εἶναι κατʼ αὐτοῦ τὰς γραφὰς πρὸς τοὺς θεσμοθέτας τοῦ ἀγραφίου, καὶ οὐ κατὰ τοῦ ὀφείλοντος καὶ μὴ ἐγγεγραμμένου, ἀλλʼ ἔνδειξιν κελεύει καὶ ἄλλας τιμωρίας κατὰ τούτων εἶναι.
You hear the law, gentlemen of the jury, that it says explicitly that if anyone of those who owe to the public treasury, without having paid the debt to the city, is erased, the indictments for non-registration before the thesmothetae shall be against him, and not against the one who owes and is not registered, but it commands that information and other punishments be against these.
ἀλλὰ σὺ τί διδάσκεις με πάντας τοὺς τρόπους οἷς δεῖ με τιμωρήσασθαι τοὺς ἐχθρούς, ἀλλʼ οὐ καθʼ ὃν εἰσελήλυθα, τοῦτον ἀπολογεῖ;
But you, why do you teach me all the ways in which I must punish my enemies, instead of defending yourself against this one by which I have entered court?
§53Μοιροκλῆς τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὁ τὸ ψήφισμα γράψας κατὰ τῶν τοὺς ἐμπόρους ἀδικούντων, καὶ πείσας οὐ μόνον ὑμᾶς ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς συμμάχους φυλακήν τινα τῶν κακουργούντων ποιήσασθαι, οὐκ αἰσχυνεῖται αὐτίκα μάλα λέγων ὑπὲρ Θεοκρίνου ἐναντία τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ψηφίσμασιν, §54ἀλλὰ τολμήσει πείθειν ὑμᾶς ὡς χρὴ τὸν οὕτως φανερῶς ἐξεληλεγμένον φάσεις ποιούμενον ἀδίκους κατὰ τῶν ἐμπόρων ἀφεῖναι καὶ μὴ τιμωρήσασθαι, ὥσπερ ἕνεκα τούτου γράψας καθαρὰν εἶναι τὴν θάλατταν, ἵνα σωθέντες οἱ πλέοντες ἐκ τοῦ πελάγους ἐν τῷ λιμένι χρήματα τούτοις ἀποτίνωσιν, ἢ διαφέρον τι τοῖς ἐμπόροις, ἂν μακρὸν διαφυγόντες πλοῦν Θεοκρίνῃ περιπέσωσιν.
Therefore Moyrocles, gentlemen of the jury, who proposed the decree against those who wrong the merchants, and persuaded not only you but also the allies to establish a certain guard against the wrongdoers, will not be ashamed very shortly to speak on behalf of Theocrines contrary to his own decrees, but he will dare to persuade you that you ought to acquit and not to punish one who has been so clearly convicted of making unjust denunciations against the merchants—as if he had proposed that the sea be safe for this purpose, so that those who sail, having escaped the open sea, might pay money to these men in the harbor; or as if it made any difference to the merchants whether, after escaping a long voyage, they fall into the hands of Theocrines.