§frag_3#2ὁ δʼ ἀπεκρίνατο ὅτι ἑπτακόσια τάλαντα τὰ χρήματα εἶναι τηλικαῦτα αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ δήμῳ πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰπών, ἀναφερομένων τριακοσίων ταλάντων καὶ πεντήκοντα ἀνθʼ ἑπτακοσίων, λαβὼν τὰ εἴκοσι τάλαντα οὐδένα λόγον ἐποιήσατο ἐν τῷ δήμῳ ἑπτακόσια φήσας εἶναι τάλαντα, νῦν τὰ ἡμίση ἀναφέρεις, καὶ ω ὅτι τοῦ ἀνενεχθῆναι εἰς ἀκρόπολιν ταῦτα τὰ πράγματα ονλι ἔκρινον τὸν οὔτʼ ἂν ἐπρίατο Ἅρπαλος τὰς φε οὔτʼ ἂν ἡ πόλις ἐν αἰτίαις καὶ διαβολαῖς ἦν.
And he replied that the money was seven hundred talents. Although he himself had told you in the assembly that the amount was so great, when three hundred and fifty talents were carried up instead of seven hundred, having received the twenty talents, he made no protest in the assembly. Although he had said there were seven hundred talents, (he did not say:) "now you are carrying up only half of it," and [... ] that for these things to be carried up to the Acropolis [... ] I judged that neither would Harpalus have bought [... ] nor would the city have been in blame and slander.
ἀλλὰ πάντων τούτων, ὦ Δημόσθενες ἐστίν μως ἐγ στους αἰσχυν νει χρυσίον γὰρ ὅτι νοιω του πεν ςτατῆρας ἔλαβε·
But of all these things, Demosthenes [... ]. For as for the gold, [... ] received staters.
σὺ δʼ ὁ τῷ ψηφίσματι τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ τὴν φυλακὴν καταστήσας καὶ οὔτʼ ἐκλειπομένην ἐπανορθῶν οὔτε καταλυθείσης τοὺς αἰτίους κρίνας, προῖκα δηλονότι τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον τεταμίευσαι;
But did you, who established the guard of his person by your decree, and neither corrected it when it was failing, nor prosecuted those responsible when it was broken, manage this opportunity, obviously, for nothing?
καὶ τοῖς μὲν ἐλάττοσι ῥήτορσιν ἀπέτινεν ὁ Ἅρπαλος χρυσίον, τοῖς θορύβου μόνον καὶ κραυγῆς κυρίοις, σὲ δὲ τὸν τῶν ὅλων πραγμάτων ἐπιστάτην παρεῖδεν;
And did Harpalus pay gold to the lesser orators, those who are masters only of noise and shouting, but overlooked you, the superintendent of the whole administration?
καὶ τῷ τοῦτο πιστόν;
And to whom is this credible?
τοσοῦτον δʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τοῦ πράγματος καταπεφρόνηκεν Δημοσθένης, μᾶλλον δέ, εἰ δεῖ μετὰ παρρησίας εἰπεῖν, ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν νόμων, ὥστε τὸ μὲν πρῶτον, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὁμολογεῖν μὲν εἰληφέναι τὰ χρήματα, ἀλλὰ κατακεχρῆσθαι αὐτὰ ὑμῖν προδεδανεισμένος δεδανεισμένος εἰς τὸ θεωρικόν· καὶ περιὼν Κνωσίων καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι φίλοι αὐτοῦ ἔλεγον ὅτι ἀναγκάσουσι τὸν ἄνθρωπον οἱ αἰτιώμενοι εἰς τὸ φανερὸν ἐνεγκεῖν ἃ οὐ βούλεται, καὶ εἰπεῖν ὅτι τῷ δήμῳ προδεδάνεισται τὰ χρήματα εἰς τὴν διοίκησιν.
Demosthenes has so greatly despised the matter, gentlemen of the jury, or rather, if one must speak with frankness, you and the laws, that at first, as it seems, he admitted having received the money, but claimed to have pre-lent it to you for the theatrical fund; and Knosion and his other friends went around saying that the accusers would force the man to bring to light what he does not wish, and to say that the money has been pre-lent to the people for the administration.
ἐπειδὴ δʼ ὑμῶν οἱ ἀκούσαντες πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἠγανάκτουν ἐπὶ τοῖς κατὰ τοῦ πλήθους τοῦ ὑμετέρου λόγοις, εἰ μὴ μόνον ἱκανὸν εἴη αὐτῷ ἰδίᾳ δεδωροδοκηκέναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν δῆμον οἴοιτο δεῖν ἀναπιμπλάναι λέγων καὶ αἰτιώμενος, ὅτι Ἀλεξάνδρῳ χαριζομένη ἡ βουλὴ ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν βούλεται· ὥσπερ οὐ πάντας ὑμᾶς εἰδότας, ὅτι οὐδεὶς τὸν τοιοῦτον ἀναιρεῖ, ὃν ἔστιν πρίασθαι, ἀλλʼ ὅντινα μήτε πεῖσαι ἔστιν μήτε χρήμασιν διαφθεῖραι, τοῦτον δὴ ςκοποῦσιν ὅπως ἐκ παντὸς τρόπου ἐκποδὼν ποιήσουσιν.
But when those of you who heard it were much more indignant at the arguments against your multitude, as if it were not enough for him to have taken bribes privately, but he also thought he ought to infect the people by saying and charging that the Council wants to destroy him to please Alexander; as if you did not all know that no one destroys a man of such a kind who can be bought, but they plot how to get out of the way by all means the one who can neither be persuaded nor corrupted by money.
κίνδυνος δʼ ὡς ἔοικεν ἐστίν, μὴ σύ, ὦ Δημόσθενες, ἀπαραίτητος καὶ ἄπειστος εἶ πρὸς δωροδοκίαν;
There is a danger, as it seems, Demosthenes, lest you are inexorable and unpersuadable to bribery?
μὴ νομίζετε δὲ διὰ τῆς τούτων δωροδοκίας τὰ τυχόντα τῶν πραγμάτων ἁλίςκεσθαι.
Do not think that, through the bribery of these men, ordinary matters of state are lost.
οὐ γὰρ ἄδηλόν ἐστιν ὅτι πάντες οἱ ἐπιβουλεύοντες τοῖς Ἑλληνικοῖς πράγμασιν τὰς μὲν μικρὰς πόλεις τοῖς ὅπλοις συσκευάζονται, τὰς δὲ μεγάλας τοὺς δυναμένους ἐν αὐταῖς ὠνούμενοι, οὐδʼ ὅτι Φίλιππος τηλικοῦτος ἐγένετο ἐξ ἀρχῆς χρήματα διαπέμψας εἰς Πελοπόννησον καὶ Θετταλίαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην Ἐλλάδα, καὶ τοὺς ἐν δυνάμει ὄντας ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν καὶ προεστῶτας
For it is not unclear that all those who plot against Greek affairs secure the small cities by arms, but the large ones by buying those who have power in them; nor that Philip became so great from the beginning by sending money to the Peloponnese and Thessaly and the rest of Greece, and [buying] those who were in power and presiding in the cities.