§3.28ὅλως δὲ κοινόν ἐστιν ὄνειδος ἁπάντων, ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ὅλης τῆς πόλεως συμφορά, τὸν φθόνον δοκεῖν μεῖζον ἰσχύειν παρʼ ὑμῖν ἢ τὰς τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν χάριτας, καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ μὲν νοσήματος ὄντος, τῶν δʼ ἐν τοῖς θεοῖς ἀποδεδειγμένων.
On the whole, men of Athens, it is a common reproach to all and a misfortune of the entire city that envy seems to have greater power among you than the gratitude for benefactions—and that too when the former is a disease, while the latter is shown to belong to the gods.
§3.29καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ τὸν Πυθέαν παραλείψω τὸν μέχρι τῆς παρόδου δημοτικόν, μετὰ ταῦτα δʼ ἕτοιμον εἰς τὰ καθʼ ὑμῶν πάντα.
Moreover, I shall not pass over Pytheas either, who was a democrat until his appearance, but after that was ready for anything against you.
τίς γὰρ οὐκ οἶδεν τοῦτον, ὅτε μὲν τὴν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν τάξιν ἔχων εἰς τὸ πολιτεύεσθαι παρῄει, ὡς δοῦλον ἐλαυνόμενον καὶ γραφὴν ξενίας φεύγοντα καὶ μικροῦ πραθένθʼ ὑπὸ τούτων οἷς νῦν ὑπηρετῶν τοὺς κατʼ ἐμοῦ λόγους ἔγραφεν, §3.30ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἃ κατηγόρει τότε τῶν ἄλλων, νῦν αὐτὸς πράττει, εὐποροῦντα μὲν οὕτως ὥστε δύʼ ἔχειν ἑταίρας, αἳ μέχρι φθόης καλῶς ποιοῦσαι προπεπόμφασιν αὐτόν, πέντε τάλαντα δʼ ὀφλόντα ῥᾷον ἐκτεῖσαι ἢ πέντε δραχμὰς ἂν ἔδειξε πρότερον, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις παρʼ ὑμῶν, τοῦ δήμου, οὐ μόνον τῆς πολιτείας μετειληφότα, ὃ κοινὸν ὄνειδός ἐστιν ἅπασιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ θύονθʼ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν τὰς πατρίους θυσίας ἐν Δελφοῖς;
For who does not know him, when he came forward to participate in politics holding the post on your behalf, being driven like a slave and escaping a prosecution for alien status, and almost sold by those whom he now serves in writing speeches against me, but since he now himself does what he then accused others of, who does not know that he is so wealthy as to keep two courtesans, who, acting kindly, have escorted him until his decline, and that, having been fined five talents, he paid it off more easily than he would have shown himself able to pay five drachmae before, and in addition to this, that he has not only received citizenship from you, the people (which is a common reproach to all), but also performs your ancestral sacrifices on your behalf in Delphi?
§3.31ὅταν οὖν τοιαῦτα καὶ τηλικαῦτα πᾶσιν ἰδεῖν ᾖ παραδείγματα, ἀφʼ ὧν ἃ λυσιτελεῖ προελέσθαι πᾶς τις ἂν κρίναι, φοβοῦμαι μήποτʼ ἔρημοι τῶν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἐρούντων γένησθε, ἄλλως τε καὶ ὅταν τῶν δημοτικῶν τοὺς μὲν ἡ καθήκουσα μοῖρα καὶ ἡ τύχη καὶ ὁ χρόνος παραιρῆται, οἷον Ναυσικλέα καὶ Χάρητα καὶ Διότιμον καὶ Μενεσθέα καὶ Εὔδοξον, ἔτι δʼ Εὐθύδικον καὶ Ἐφιάλτην καὶ Λυκοῦργον, τοὺς δʼ ὑμεῖς προῆσθε, ὥσπερ Χαρίδημον καὶ Φιλοκλέα καὶ ἐμέ.
When, therefore, there are such and so great examples for all to see, from which anyone might judge what is profitable to choose, I fear lest you may some day become destitute of those who will speak on your behalf, especially when the fitting fate, fortune, and time are taking away some of the democrats, such as Nausicles, Chares, Diotimus, Menestheus, and Eudoxus, and still Euthydicus, Ephialtes, and Lycurgus, while you yourselves have abandoned others, just like Charidemus, Philocles, and me.
§3.32ὧν ἑτέρους εὐνουστέρους οὐδʼ αὐτοὶ νομίζετε· εἰ δʼ ὁμοίους τινάς, οὐ φθονῶ, βουλοίμην δʼ ἄν, εἴπερ ὑμεῖς δικαίως αὐτοῖς προσοίσεσθε καὶ μὴ ταὔθʼ ἅπερ ἡμεῖς πείσονται, ὡς πλείστους αὐτοὺς γενέσθαι.
Of whom you yourselves do not think there are others more well-disposed; but if there are some similar, I do not begrudge it, but would wish, if indeed you will treat them justly and they do not suffer the same things as we have, that they become as numerous as possible.
ἀλλʼ ὅταν γε τοιαῦθʼ οἷα τὰ νῦν, παραδείγματʼ ἐκφέρητε, τίς ἔστιν ὅστις εἰς ταύτην τὴν τάξιν ἑαυτὸν γνησίως ὑμῖν ἐθελήσει δοῦναι;
But when you display such examples as those of the present, who is there who will willingly give himself to this post for you with sincerity?
§3.33ἀλλὰ μὴν τῶν γε προσποιησομένων οὐκ ἀπορήσετε· οὐδὲ γὰρ πρότερον.
And indeed, you will not lack those who will pretend to do so; for neither did you before.
μὴ γένοιτο δʼ ἰδεῖν ἐξελεγχθέντας αὐτοὺς ὁμοίως ἐκείνοις, οἳ φανερῶς ἃ τότʼ ἠρνοῦντο νῦν πολιτευόμενοι οὐδένʼ ὑμῶν οὔτε δεδοίκασιν οὔτʼ αἰσχύνονται.
But may it not happen to see them exposed in the same manner as those who, openly conducting politics now in ways they then denied, neither fear nor feel ashamed before any of you.
ἃ χρὴ λογιζομένους, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, μήτε τῶν εὔνων ὀλιγωρεῖν μήτε τοῖς προάγουσιν ἐς πικρίαν καὶ ὠμότητα τὴν πόλιν πείθεσθαι.
Reflecting on these things, men of Athens, you must neither neglect those who are well-disposed nor believe those who lead the city into bitterness and cruelty.
§3.34πολὺ γὰρ μᾶλλον εὐνοίας καὶ φιλανθρωπίας τὰ παρόντα πράγματα δεῖται ἢ ταραχῆς καὶ δυσμενείας, ὧν ὑπερβολῇ χρώμενοί τινες ἐργολαβοῦσι καθʼ ὑμῶν εἰς ὑποδοχὴν πραγμάτων, ὧν διαψεύσειεν αὐτοὺς ὁ λογισμός.
For the present situation needs goodwill and humanity much more than confusion and ill-will, by the excess of which some men work against you to make you receive affairs in which I pray their calculation may deceive them.
εἰ δέ τις ὑμῶν διασύρει ταῦτα, πολλῆς ἐστιν εὐηθείας μεστός.
But if anyone of you disparages these things, he is full of great folly.
εἰ γάρ, ἃ μηδεὶς ἂν ἤλπισεν, ὁρῶν γεγενημένα, ἃ καὶ πρότερον γέγονε τοῦ δήμου πρὸς τοὺς ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ λέγοντας ὑπʼ ἀνθρώπων ἐγκαθέτων διαβληθέντος, νῦν μὴ ἂν οἴεται γενέσθαι, πῶς οὐ τετύφωται;
For if, seeing things happen which no one would have hoped for, he thinks that what also happened before to the people, when they were slandered by planted men against those who spoke on their behalf, could not happen now, how is he not utterly infatuated?
§3.35ταῦτʼ εἰ μὲν παρῆν, λέγων ἂν ὑμᾶς ἐδίδασκον· ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἐν τοιούτοις εἰμὶ ἐν οἷς, εἴ τις ἐμοῦ κατέψευσται ἐφʼ οἷς ἀπόλωλα, γένοιτο, γράψας ἐπέσταλκα, πρώτου μὲν καὶ πλεῖστον λόγον ποιούμενος τοῦ καλοῦ καὶ τοῦ συμφέροντος ὑμῖν, δεύτερον δʼ ὅτι τὴν αὐτὴν εὔνοιαν ἣν πρὸς ζῶντα Λυκοῦργον εἶχον, δίκαιον εἶναι νομίζω καὶ πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ φαίνεσθαι ἔχων.
If I were present, I would instruct you by speaking of these things; but since I am in such circumstances in which—if anyone has lied against me concerning the things for which I was ruined, so be it—I have sent this after writing it, making first and greatest account of what is honorable and advantageous for you, and secondly because I think it is just to appear holding the same goodwill toward his children which I had toward Lycurgus when he was alive.
§3.36εἰ δέ τῳ παρέστηκεν ὡς πολύ μοι περίεστιν τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ πραγμάτων, οὐκ ἂν ὀκνήσαιμι πρὸς τοῦτον εἰπεῖν ὅτι τῶν συμφερόντων ὑμῖν καὶ τοῦ μηδένα τῶν φίλων ἐγκαταλείπειν ὁμοίως ὥσπερ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ σωτηρίας φροντίζω.
And if it has occurred to anyone that I have a great superfluity of my own affairs, I would not hesitate to say to him that I care for your advantages and for not abandoning any of my friends in the same way as for my own safety.
οὔκουν ἐκ τοῦ περιόντος ταῦτα ποιῶ, ἀλλʼ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς σπουδῆς καὶ προαιρέσεως καὶ ταῦτα κἀκεῖνα μιᾷ γνώμῃ πραγματεύομαι.
Therefore, I do not do these things from a superfluity, but from the same zeal and purpose I manage both these and those with one mind.
περίεστιν δέ μοι τοιαῦτα, οἷα τοῖς κακόν τι νοοῦσιν ὑμῖν περιγένοιτο.
And if I have any such superfluity, may it fall upon those who intend evil against you.
καὶ περὶ μὲν τούτων ἱκανά.
And concerning these matters, enough.