§481εἰκότως ἡγεῖται.
He reasonably thinks so.
εἰ μὲν οὖν οὐδʼ ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἔρχεται, ἀλλὰ ψεύδεται κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ μέρος, θάτερον αὐτῷ πιστεύετε, ὡς οὐδὲν ὑμῖν γε ὑπεναντίον πράξει·
If, therefore, he is not even marching against us, but is lying in this respect, believe the other thing of him: that he will do nothing hostile to you.
εἰ δʼ οἷς γε ὡμολόγηκεν οὐκ εἰκὸς ἀπιστεῖν, τοῖς αὐτοῖς καὶ περὶ ὧν ἔξαρνός ἐστιν ἐλέγχεται.
But if it is not reasonable to disbelieve what he has admitted, he is convicted by those very same things also regarding what he denies.
ὥστε δυοῖν θάτερον, εἰ μὲν οὐ πολεμήσετε, δουλεύσετε, εἰ δʼ οὐκ ἀξιώσετε δουλεύειν, πολεμήσετε.
So, one of two things: if you will not fight, you will be slaves; but if you do not think it fit to be slaves, you must fight.
καὶ μὴν εἰ μὲν τὸ φιλανθρώπως ἔχειν ποτὲ κωλύει τὰς ἐπιβουλὰς, οὐδὲ πρὸς ἡμᾶς αὐτῷ νῦν ἐστι πόλεμος, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἡμῖν αἰχμαλώτους ποτʼ ἀφῆκε καὶ φιλίας συνέθετο·
And indeed, if his ever having behaved benevolently prevents hostile designs, then he has no war against us now either, since he once released prisoners to us and concluded a friendship.
εἰ δʼ ἡ πλεονεξία δεινὸν, τί λέγειν δεῖ τοὺς Φωκέας;
But if greed is a terrible thing, what must we say of the Phocians?
οὐ γὰρ ὑπὲρ τῶν ὑμῖν συμφερόντων ἀνεῖλε τοὺς Φωκέας, οὒ, ἀλλʼ ἀφορμῆς ἕνεκα τοῖς αὑτοῦ πράγμασιν, οὐδʼ ἵνʼ ὑμᾶς ἰσχυροτέρους ποιήσειεν, ἀλλʼ ἵνα τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἀσθενεστέρους κοινῇ, εἰ μὴ καὶ δύο καὶ τριάκοντα πόλεις ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἀνῃρηκέναι φήσει, καὶ Θετταλίαν ἅπασαν ἔχειν φρουραῖς καὶ τετραδαρχίαις κατειληφὼς, ἵνʼ ὑμεῖς ἀκριβῶς τὴν πολιτείαν φυλάττητε, καὶ Μεγάροις ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἐπιχειρῆσαι, καὶ τὴν Εὔβοιαν ἀφαρπάζειν διʼ ὑμᾶς, καὶ τἀν Πελοποννήσῳ σκευωρεῖσθαι καὶ σφαγὰς ποιεῖν, ἵνʼ ὑμεῖς ὡς ἥκιστα κινδυνεύητε, καὶ Παίοσί γε καὶ Τριβαλλοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἔξω τῶν ἄρκτων ἐνοχλεῖν καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις παρέχειν πράγματα, ἵνʼ ἡ τῶν Θηβαίων πόλις εὐθενῇ καὶ μηδὲν αὐτῇ φοβερόν ποτʼ ἐκ τῆς ὑπερορίας ἐπιστῇ, καὶ νῦν ἐπʼ Ἀθηναίους ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἔρχεται·
For it was not for your interests that he destroyed the Phocians—no—but for the sake of a starting-point for his own affairs, nor in order to make you stronger, but to make the Greeks weaker as a whole, unless he will also claim that he destroyed thirty-two cities in Thrace for your sake, and that he has occupied the whole of Thessaly with garrisons and tetrarchies so that you might strictly preserve your constitution, and that he made an attempt on Megara for your sake, and is snatching Euboea because of you, and is intriguing in the Peloponnese and causing massacres so that you might run the least possible risk, and is harassing the Paeonians and Triballians and those beyond the North and causing trouble to all mankind so that the city of the Thebans might flourish and nothing terrible from beyond the borders might ever come upon it, and that now he is marching against the Athenians for your sake!
πάνυ γε ὡς ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων δείκνυται.
Assuredly so, as is shown by the rest of his actions!
τί ποτʼ οὖν βουλόμενος οὐ προσομολογεῖ τὸ καθʼ ὑμῶν, ἀλλʼ ἀποκρύπτεται;
Why on earth, then, with what intention, does he not also admit his design against you, but hides it?
μάλιστα μὲν, ὦ ἄνδρες Θηβαῖοι, Φίλιππος ἐξῄρηκε τοὺς κήρυκας ἐκ τῶν πολέμων καὶ μέχρι τοῦ θεάτρου μόνου χρῆται.
In the first place, O men of Thebes, Philip has banished heralds from his wars, and employs them only as far as the theatre.
ἡγεῖται γὰρ, οἶμαι, πολλὴν εἶναι φλυαρίαν ἐν μὲν τοῖς γυμνικοῖς· ἀγῶσι μὴ προλέγειν τὰ παλαίσματα μηδὲ τί δεῖ φυλάξασθαι, ἐν δὲ κατασκευῇ πολέμου καὶ συστάσει πραγμάτων προπέμπειν τὸν κωλυτὴν ὥσπερ δεδοικότα ὑπὲρ τῶν πολεμίων.
For he thinks, I believe, that while it is great folly in athletic contests not to announce the wrestling-moves beforehand nor what one must guard against, yet in the preparation of war and the combination of affairs, to send ahead someone who will prevent it is like fearing for the enemies.
οὔκουν οὔτʼ Ὀλυνθίοις προεῖπεν ἃ ἐβούλετο, πρὶν ὥσπερ τι νόσημα αὐτῶν καὶ δὴ τῶν σωμάτων ἥπτετο, εἴς τε Φωκέας §482παριὼν τὴν τοῦ φίλος αὐτοῖς ἔρχεσθαι δόξαν προκαθίει.
Therefore he did not announce to the Olynthians what he intended, until, like some disease, it had already laid hold of their very bodies; and when passing into the territory of the Phocians, he sent ahead the reputation of coming as their friend.
εἰ μὲν οὖν, οἶμαι, καὶ νῦν ὑμῖν οἷός τʼ ἦν σιωπῇ προσελθεῖν, πλείστου τοῦτʼ ἂν ἐτιμήσατο, ἐπεὶ δʼ ἀναγκαῖον ἦν φανερὸν γενέσθαι διὰ τῆς Βοιωτίας βαδίζοντα, τὰ μὲν τῆς ἀνάγκης ἥττηται, τὰ δὲ τῇ φύσει χρῆται, καὶ φησὶν ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἔρχεσθαι, οὐχ ἵνʼ ἐξείπῃ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἀλλʼ ἵνα τὸν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐπικρύψηται, νομίζων οὐ μικρὸν διαφέρειν πρὸς ἀμφοτέρους, ἢ πρὸς τοὺς ἑτέρους ἀγωνίζεσθαι.
If, then, I believe, he were able even now to approach you in silence, he would have valued this most highly; but since it was necessary for him to become visible as he marched through Boeotia, he has yielded on the points of necessity, but on others he follows his nature, and says he is marching against us—not in order to declare the war against us, but in order to conceal the war against you, thinking that it makes no small difference to fight against both together, or against one of the two.
ἂν δὲ δὴ καὶ τοῦτʼ αὐτῷ προσυπάρξῃ τὸ πρὸς οὓς ἔδει κινδυνεύειν αὐτὸν μεθʼ ἡμῶν ὄντας, μετὰ τούτων ἡμῖν ἐπέρχεσθαι θαυμαστὸν εἶναι τὸ εὕρημα.
And if indeed this further advantage should be his, that those with whom he ought to run risks, were they on our side, should instead march with him against us, he would consider this a marvelous piece of luck.
διὰ ταῦτʼ ἐκεῖνο μὲν ὡμολόγηκε, τοῦτο δʼ ἀρνεῖται.
For this reason he has admitted the former but denies the latter.
πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ὑπελάμβανεν, εἰ μὲν ἄντικρυς ὑμῖν πολέμου νόμῳ συμπλέκοιτο, ἡμᾶς ἀφίξεσθαι καὶ διακωλύσειν, εἰ δὲ διαστήσαι τὰς πόλεις, ὑμᾶς μὲν ἕξειν πρὶν ἀντᾶραι, πρὸς δὲ ἡμᾶς παρατάξεσθαι μόνους.
In addition to this, he assumed that if he should clash openly with you according to the law of war, we would arrive and prevent it, but if he should separate the cities, he would have you before you could resist, and would face us alone.
πράττει δὲ οὐ νῦν πρῶτον τοῦτο, ἀλλʼ ἐξ ἅπαντος τοῦ χρόνου καὶ διὰ πάντων πραγμάτων, ὅπως μηδέποθʼ αἱ πόλεις ἐν ταὐτῷ γενήσονται·
And he does this not now for the first time, but has done so through all time and in all affairs, so that the cities might never be united.
ἐπεὶ καὶ τῶν περὶ Φωκέας τότε πραγμάτων προϊόντων εἰς χρόνον, προειδὼς ὅτι χρήσεσθε ἡμῖν συμμάχοις ὥσπερ εἰώθειτε, ἀμφοτέρους ἐξέκρουσεν, ἡμῖν μὲν εἰρήνην προβαλὼν, ὑμᾶς δʼ ὡς φίλους προσέμενος.
Since, when the affairs concerning the Phocians were dragging on in time, knowing beforehand that you would employ us as allies as you were accustomed to do, he warded off both of us, holding out peace to us, and receiving you as friends.
τότε μὲν τοίνυν ἀρχαϊκῶς ἀμφότεροι καὶ φαύλως ὑπήχθημεν, νῦν δὲ φανῶμεν μὴ χείρους ἐκείνου λογίζεσθαι.
At that time, therefore, we were both led astray in an old-fashioned and simple-minded way, but now let us show ourselves to be not worse than him in calculating.
ἀλλʼ ὅμως ἀπαιτεῖ χάριν ὑμᾶς τῆς αὑτοῦ πλεονεξίας αὐτὸς ἅπασαν ἀνῃρηκὼς τὴν χάριν.
But nevertheless, he demands gratitude from you for his own greed, though he himself has destroyed all ground for gratitude.
ὃς γὰρ ἀνθʼ ὧν τότε μικρὸν ἔδωκε, νῦν ἥκει πάνθʼ ἁπλῶς ὑμᾶς ἀφαιρησόμενος, τίνʼ αὑτῷ λέλοιπε παρʼ ὑμῖν χάριν;
For he who, in return for the small things he gave then, has now come to deprive you of absolutely everything, what gratitude has he left for himself in your eyes?
ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ καὶ Φωκέας ἐπιχειροῖ χάριν ὧν πεπόνθασιν ἀπαιτεῖν.
Just as if he should also attempt to demand gratitude from the Phocians for what they have suffered!
οὐ γὰρ εἰ καὶ Φωκέας ἀνεῖλε, διὰ τοῦθʼ ὑμῖν εὐμενῶς ἔχειν αὐτὸν ἡγεῖσθαι προσήκει, ἀλλʼ ὅτι καὶ Φωκέας ἀνεῖλε καθʼ ὑμῶν, καὶ νῦν ὑμῖν ὡς τότʼ ἐκείνοις βούλεται χρῆσθαι καὶ φυλάξασθαι καὶ μὴ διʼ ἐκεῖνα καὶ ταῦτα συγχωρεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐκ τῶν νῦν τούτων κἀκεῖνα μισῆσαι.
For it is not because he destroyed the Phocians that you should believe him to be well-disposed to you, but rather because he destroyed the Phocians to your detriment, and now he wishes to treat you as he did them then; you must be on your guard and not yield to these things because of those, but from these present facts, hate those past actions too.