§10ὡς εὖ γε νὴ τὸν Ἑρμῆν καὶ κατὰ τὸν τῶν ῥητόρων νόμον πεπροοιμίασταί σοι·
By Hermes, how well and in the manner of the orators you have made your prologue!
ἔοικας γοῦν κἀκεῖνα προσθήσειν, ὡς διʼ ὀλίγου τε ὑμῖν ἡ συνουσία ἐγένετο καὶ ὡς οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἧκες πρὸς τὸν λόγον παρεσκευασμένος καὶ ὡς ἄμεινον εἶχεν αὐτοῦ ταῦτα λέγοντος ἀκούειν· σὺ γὰρ ὀλίγα καὶ ὅσα οἷόν τε ἦν, τυγχάνεις τῇ μνήμῃ συγκεκομισμένος.
At any rate, you seem likely to add those things too, how your meeting was short and how you yourself did not come prepared for the discourse and how it was better to hear these things from him speaking; for you happen to have gathered in your memory only a few things and as many as were possible.
οὐ ταῦτʼ ἐρεῖν ἔμελλες;
Were you not going to say these things?
οὐδὲν οὖν αὐτῶν ἔτι σοι δεῖ πρὸς ἐμέ· νόμισον δὲ τούτου γε ἕνεκα πάντα σοι προειρῆσθαι· ὡς ἐγὼ καὶ βοᾶν καὶ κροτεῖν ἕτοιμος.
Therefore you have no more need of any of them against me; consider that for this sake everything has already been said by you; for I am ready both to shout and to applaud.
ἢν δὲ διαμέλλῃς, μνησικακήσω γε παρὰ τὸν ἀγῶνα καὶ ὀξύτατα συρίξομαι.
But if you delay, I shall bear a grudge during the contest and hiss most sharply.
§11καὶ ταῦτα μέν, ἃ σὺ διῆλθες, ἐβουλόμην ἂν εἰρῆσθαί μοι, κἀκεῖνα δέ, ὅτι οὐχ ἑξῆς οὐδὲ ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἔλεγε, ῥῆσίν τινα περὶ πάντων ἐρῶ· πάνυ γὰρ τοῦθʼ ἡμῖν ἀδύνατον· οὐδʼ αὖ ἐκείνῳ περιθεὶς τοὺς λόγους, μὴ καὶ κατʼ ἄλλο τι γένωμαι τοῖς ὑποκριταῖς ἐκείνοις ὅμοιος, οἳ πολλάκις ἢ Ἀγαμέμνονος ἢ Κρέοντος ἢ καὶ Ἡρακλέους αὐτοῦ πρόσωπον ἀνειληφότες, χρυσίδας ἠμφιεσμένοι καὶ δεινὸν βλέποντες καὶ μέγα κεχηνότες μικρὸν φθέγγονται καὶ ἰσχνὸν καὶ γυναικῶδες καὶ τῆς Ἑκάβης ἢ Πολυξένης πολὺ ταπεινότερον.
And indeed these things, which you have gone through, I should have wished to have been said by me, and those things too, that I shall make a speech about everything, neither in order nor as he spoke; for this is altogether impossible for us; nor again by putting the words around him, lest in some other respect I become like those actors who, having often assumed the mask of Agamemnon or Creon or even Heracles himself, dressed in gold-embroidered robes and looking fierce and gaping wide, utter a small, weak, womanish voice, much more lowly than that of Hecuba or Polyxena.
ἵνʼ οὖν μὴ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐλέγχωμαι πάνυ μεῖζον τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ κεφαλῆς προσωπεῖον περικείμενος καὶ τὴν σκευὴν καταισχύνων, ἀπὸ γυμνοῦ σοι βούλομαι τοὐμοῦ προσώπου προσλαλεῖν, ἵνα μὴ συγκατασπάσω που πεσὼν τὸν ἥρωα ὃν ὑποκρίνομαι.
So that I myself may not be exposed as wearing a mask altogether too large for my own head and disgracing the costume, I wish to speak to you from my own bare face, lest falling down I drag down with me the hero whom I impersonate.
§12οὗτος ἁνὴρ οὐ παύσεται τήμερον πρός με πολλῇ τῇ σκηνῇ καὶ τῇ τραγῳδίᾳ χρώμενος.
This man will not stop today using much stage and tragedy against me.
Καὶ μὴν παύσομαί γε· πρὸς ἐκεῖνα δὲ ἤδη τρέψομαι.
And indeed I will stop; and to those things I shall now turn.
ἡ μὲν ἀρχὴ τῶν λόγων ἔπαινος ἦν Ἑλλάδος καὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν ἀνθρώπων, ὅτι φιλοσοφίᾳ καὶ πενίᾳ σύντροφοί εἰσιν καὶ οὔτε τῶν ἀστῶν οὔτε τῶν ξένων οὐδένα τέρπονται ὁρῶντες, ὃς ἂν τρυφὴν εἰσάγειν εἰς αὐτοὺς βιάζηται, ἀλλὰ κἄν τις ἀφίκηται παρʼ αὐτοὺς οὕτω διακείμενος, ἠρέμα τε μεθαρμόττουσι καὶ παραπαιδαγωγοῦσι καὶ πρὸς τὸ καθαρὸν τῆς διαίτης μεθιστᾶσιν.
The beginning of the discourse was a praise of Greece and of the men in Athens, because they are foster-brothers of philosophy and poverty, and they take no pleasure in seeing anyone, whether of the citizens or of the strangers, who forces luxury in among them, but even if someone arrives among them in such a state, they gently remodel him and discipline him and transfer him to the purity of life.
§13ἐμέμνητο γοῦν τινος τῶν πολυχρύσων, ὃς ἐλθὼν Ἀθήναζε μάλʼ ἐπίσημος καὶ φορτικὸς ἀκολούθων ὄχλῳ καὶ ποικίλῃ ἐσθῆτι καὶ χρυσῷ αὐτὸς μὲν ᾤετο ζηλωτὸς εἶναι πᾶσι τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις καὶ ὡς ἂν εὐδαίμων ἀποβλέπεσθαι· τοῖς δʼ ἄρα δυστυχεῖν ἐδόκει τὸ ἀνθρώπιον, καὶ παιδεύειν ἐπεχείρουν αὐτὸν οὐ πικρῶς οὐδʼ ἄντικρυς ἀπαγορεύοντες ἐν ἐλευθέρᾳ τῇ πόλει καθʼ ὅντινα τρόπον βούλεται μὴ βιοῦν· ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ κἀν τοῖς γυμνασίοις καὶ λουτροῖς ὀχληρὸς ἦν θλίβων τοῖς οἰκέταις καὶ στενοχωρῶν τοὺς ἀπαντῶντας, ἡσυχῆ τις ἂν ὑπεφθέγξατο προσποιούμενος λανθάνειν, ὥσπερ οὐ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον ἀποτείνων, Δέδοικε μὴ παραπόληται μεταξὺ λουόμενος· καὶ μὴν εἰρήνη γε μακρὰ κατέχει τὸ βαλανεῖον· οὐδὲν οὖν δεῖ στρατοπέδου. ὁ δὲ ἀκούων ἀεί, μεταξὺ ἐπαιδεύετο.
At any rate, he made mention of one of the very wealthy men, who having come to Athens, very conspicuous and vulgar with a crowd of attendants and colorful clothing and gold, thought himself to be envied by all the Athenians and to be looked up to as happy; but to them the little man seemed to be unfortunate, and they attempted to educate him, not bitterly nor outright forbidding him to live in whatever way he wishes in a free city; but since even in the gymnasia and baths he was troublesome, crowding with his servants and cramping those who met him, someone would whisper quietly, pretending to be unnoticed, as if not directing it toward that man himself: "He fears lest he perish in the midst of bathing; and yet a long peace holds the bathhouse; there is no need, then, of an army." And he, hearing this constantly, was educated in the meantime.
τὴν δὲ ἐσθῆτα τὴν ποικίλην καὶ τὰς πορφυρίδας ἐκείνας ἀπέδυσαν αὐτὸν ἀστείως πάνυ τὸ ἀνθηρὸν ἐπισκώπτοντες τῶν χρωμάτων, Ἔαρ ἤδη, λέγοντες, καί, Πόθεν ὁ ταὼς οὗτος; καί, Τάχα τῆς μητρός ἐστιν αὐτοῦ· καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα.
And they stripped him of that colorful clothing and those purple robes, very wittily mocking the flowery nature of the colors, saying: "It is spring already," and "Where does this peacock come from?" and "Perhaps it belongs to his mother," and such things.
καὶ τὰ ἄλλα δὲ οὕτως ἀπέσκωπτον, ἢ τῶν δακτυλίων τὸ πλῆθος ἢ τῆς κόμης τὸ περίεργον ἢ τῆς διαίτης τὸ ἀκόλαστον· ὥστε κατὰ μικρὸν ἐσωφρονίσθη καὶ παρὰ πολὺ βελτίων ἀπῆλθε δημοσίᾳ πεπαιδευμένος.
And they mocked other things too in this way, either the multitude of rings or the elaborate care of his hair or the unrestrained nature of his life; so that by degrees he was brought to his senses and went away far better, having been educated publicly.