§495ἐφʼ ὑμῖν ὄντα, καὶ τοσούτῳ χείρους Φιλίππου γενέσθαι περὶ ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς ὥσθʼ ὁ μὲν εἰ καὶ μὴ τοῦτʼ ἐβούλετο, ἀλλʼ οὖν τινά γʼ ὑμῖν ἔπραξεν εἰς καιρὸν, ὑμεῖς δʼ ὧν οὐκ ἂν ἔχοιτε μείζω, ταῦθʼ ἑκόντες εἰς ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς ἐξαμαρτήσεσθε, καὶ τοσοῦτον ἀφέξετε τοῦ μιμεῖσθαι ἐκεῖνον, ὥσθʼ ὁ μὲν ὑμῖν τοὺς πολεμίους παρέδωκεν, ὑμεῖς δʼ ἐὰν ἃ πείθουσιν οὗτοι ποιῆτε, ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς τοῖς πολεμίοις παραδώσετε.
[surrender all your affairs] which are in your power, and to become so much worse than Philip towards yourselves that, while he, even if he did not wish this, yet at least did some things for you in season, you will willingly commit errors against yourselves in those things than which you could have nothing greater, and you will fall so far short of imitating him, that while he delivered up your enemies to you, you, if you do what these men persuade, will deliver yourselves up to your enemies.
τίνος οὖν ἕνεκʼ εἰπέ μοι λοιπὸν τῷ Φιλίππῳ χάριν ἕξετε, εἰ μηδὲν ὑμῖν τοῦ σώζεσθαι μέλει;
For what reason, tell me, then, will you feel gratitude to Philip hereafter, if you care nothing for your own safety?
ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ἡγοῦμαι τῇ τότε κοινωνίᾳ τὴν νῦν ἐναντίαν εἶναι.
For I indeed think, from both points of view, that the present situation is contrary to the alliance of that time.
εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς εὔνους ὢν ὑμῖν ἐκεῖνα προὐθυμεῖτο, αἰσχρὸν ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἐπαινεῖν τῆς προθυμίας, ὑμῶν δʼ αὐτῶν ἀμελῆσαι· εἰ δὲ πεῖρα καθʼ ὑμῶν ἦν καὶ παρασκευὴ τοῦ μέλλοντος χρόνου, δυοῖν, οὐχ ἑνὸς ὑμῖν ὀφείλει δίκην, τοῦ τʼ ἐπʼ ἐκείνων φενακίζειν καὶ τοῦ νῦν μεθʼ ὅπλων ἐπέρχεσθαι.
For if he was eager for those things being truly well-disposed to you, it is shameful to praise him for his eagerness, but to neglect yourselves; but if it was a trial against you and a preparation for the future time, he owes you punishment for two things, not for one: both for deceiving you then, and for coming against you now with arms.
ὥστʼ οὐ διʼ ἐκεῖνα ταῦθʼ ὑπακουστέον, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ ἀμφοῖν τῇ τιμωρίᾳ χρηστέον ἡνίκʼ εἴληπται.
Therefore, you must not obey him now because of those things, but must exact punishment for both, since he has been caught.
εὖ δʼ ἂν ἔχοι τῇ πονηρίᾳ τοῦ Φιλίππου χρησαμένους ὃ πρόσεστι ζημίας αὐτῇ φυλάξασθαι.
And it would be well, using the wickedness of Philip, to guard against the damage that is attached to it.
οὐδεὶς ἀντιλέγει τὸ μὴ οὐ δικαίως Φωκέας ἀπολωλέναι, ἀλλʼ οὐ διὰ τοῦτο δίκαιος πιστεύεσθαι Φίλιππος.
No one denies that the Phocians perished justly, but not on this account is Philip just to be trusted.
ἀλλʼ εἴ τι δεῖ καὶ περὶ Φωκέων εἰπεῖν, τῷ μὲν καθʼ αὑτοὺς μέρει δικαίως ταῦτα πεπόνθασιν, ὅσα δʼ εἰς Φίλιππον οὐκ ὀρθῶς.
But if it is necessary to say something also about the Phocians, on their own part indeed they have suffered these things justly, but as far as concerns Philip, not rightly.
ὅταν γὰρ μὴ τοῦ θεοῦ χάριν μηδʼ ὑμῶν, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ τῆς αὑτοῦ πλεονεξίας, ἣν ἐν ἅπασι δείκνυσι, φαίνηται ταῦτα συμπράξας, ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἴσως δικαίως ἀπολώλασιν, οὗτος δʼ οὐχὶ δικαίως ἀνῄρηκε.
For when he is shown to have helped in doing these things not for the sake of the god nor of you, but for his own aggrandizement, which he displays in all things, they indeed have perhaps perished justly, but he has not justly destroyed them.
μὴ τοίνυν τῷ Φωκέας εἰκότως ἀπολωλέναι τὰ ὑμέτερʼ αὐτῶν εἰκῆ πρόησθε, μηδὲ συγκαταγνῶτε ὑμῶν αὐτῶν παθεῖν ἅπερ Φωκεῖς.
Do not, therefore, because the Phocians perished reasonably, surrender your own possessions in vain, nor condemn yourselves to suffer the very things that the Phocians did.
καὶ γὰρ ἐκείνους μὲν ἔχοιμεν ἂν εἰπεῖν ὡς προσήκοντα ἔπαθον πλημμελήσαντες περὶ τὸν θεὸν, ὑμεῖς δʼ ἀνθʼ ὅτου ταύτην ὑφέξετε νῦν τὴν δίκην οὐχὶ σύνισμεν ἡμεῖς γε.
For indeed we could say of them that they suffered what was fitting, having sinned against the god, but as for you, we at least do not know for what reason you will now undergo this punishment.
δεινὸν δέ μοι φαίνεται καὶ τοῦτο εἰ Φωκεῖς μὲν ὤφειλον δίκην, ἐπειδὴ τὸ ἱερὸν τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς §496κατέλαβον, ὁ δʼ οὐ μόνον τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς ἱερὸν σεσυληκὼς, ἀλλʼ ἀντὶ μὲν τοῦ συλῆσαι τὸ ἱερὸν ἄγων τὰ Πύθια καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐξηγούμενος τὰ μηδὲν ἑαυτῷ προσήκοντα, ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς μόνον συλῆσαι δύο μὲν καὶ τριάκοντα ὁμοῦ πόλεων ἱερὰ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης οὐ σεσυληκὼς, ἀλλʼ ἀνῃρηκὼς, χωρὶς δὲ τούτων ἅπασαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα συλῶν καὶ οὐδὲν ἐξαίρετον ποιούμενος, οὐ νεὼς, οὐκ ἀναθήματα, οὐ τείχη, οὐχ ἵππους, οὐχ ὅπλα, οὐ χρήματα, οὐ σώματα, οὐ λιμένας, οὐ πολιτείαν, ἀλλὰ πάντα ὥσπερ ὑπὸ βροντῆς κινῶν, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἄρδην ἀφανίζων, τοῖς δʼ ὅ τι ἂν βούληται χρώμενος, οὗτος δʼ οὐχὶ δίκην ὀφείλειν δόξει τούτων, ἀλλʼ ὡς εὐεργέτης στεφανώσεται, καὶ ταῦθʼ ὑφʼ ὑμῶν, ὧν τῇ τάξει λελύμανται.
And this also seems to me terrible, if the Phocians owed punishment because they seized the temple in Delphi, but he, who has not only plundered the temple in Delphi, but, instead of plundering the temple, conducts the Pythian games and dictates to the Greeks in matters that do not concern him at all, and, instead of plundering only the one in Delphi, has not merely plundered but utterly destroyed the temples of thirty-two cities together in Thrace, and apart from these things, plundering the whole of Greece and making nothing exempt—not temples, not votive offerings, not walls, not horses, not arms, not money, not persons, not harbors, not constitution, but shaking everything as if by a thunderbolt, and utterly vanishing some things, while treating others in whatever way he wishes—if he shall not be thought to owe punishment for these things, but shall be crowned as a benefactor, and that too by you, whose position he has ruined!
εἰ δὲ μὴ, πότε βέλτιον ἐπράττετε, ὅπως δὲ μηδὲν ἀχθεσθῆτε, πότερον ἡνίκα Ἐπαμεινώνδας καὶ Γοργίδας καὶ Πελοπίδας ὑμῶν ἡγοῦντο καὶ Φίλιππον ὁμηρεύοντα ἐγιγνώσκετε, ἢ τούτου παρελθόντος εἰς τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ ἡνίχʼ ὑμῶν οὗτος ἡγεῖτο τοσαῦτα χαριζόμενος, διʼ ὧν ἔμελλεν εἰσαῦθις ἀσθενεστέροις χρήσεσθαι;
Otherwise, when were you faring better—and mind you do not take offence—was it when Epaminondas, Gorgidas, and Pelopidas were leading you, and you knew Philip as a hostage, or when he succeeded to the rule and when he was leading you, granting so many favors by means of which he was going to make you weaker in the future?
οἶμαι δʼ εἰ κατʼ ἀρχὰς εὐθὺς τοῦτον μισθὸν ὑμᾶς Φίλιππος ᾔτησε τῆς βοηθείας, ὑποκύψαι καὶ παραδοῦναι τὴν πόλιν αὑτῷ, μηδένα ἂν τοσούτου τιμήσασθαι τὴν πρὸς Φωκέας φιλονεικίαν.
And I think that if at the very beginning Philip had asked you for this reward for his assistance, namely, to submit and surrender your city to him, no one would have valued their rivalry against the Phocians so highly.
μὴ τοίνυν ἅ γʼ ἐξ ἀρχῆς οὐκ ἂν ἠνέσχεσθε, ταῦτα νῦν ἀντʼ ἐκείνων δῶτε, ἀλλʼ ἐνθυμεῖσθʼ ὅτι πρῶτον μὲν οὐδὲν ἧττον ὑμῖν ἃ βούλεσθε πέπρακται, ὥστε μηδὲν σφόδρα τούτου δεῖν ἔτι· ἔπειτʼ εἰ καὶ δυοῖν αἵρεσις ἦν, ἄμεινον Φωκεῦσι πολεμεῖν ἢ τοῦτον εἰσφρήσεσθαι.
Do not, therefore, give now in exchange for those things what you would not have tolerated from the beginning, but reflect that, in the first place, what you wished has been accomplished for you no less, so that there is no great need of him anymore; next, even if there were a choice of two, it would be better to war with the Phocians than to let this man in.
ἐκείνων μὲν γὰρ ἂν καὶ καθʼ ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς ἐκρατήσατε καὶ μεθʼ ἡμῶν, ὥσπερ Λακεδαιμονίων πρότερον, καί τινʼ ἄλλον ἴσως τρόπον· εἰ δʼ ἅπαξ οὗτος ἐγκρατὴς ὑμῶν ἔσται, οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅ τι μεῖζον παρʼ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν εἰσαῦθις εὑρήσετε.
For over them you would have prevailed both by yourselves and with us, just as over the Lacedaemonians previously, and perhaps in some other way; but if once this man becomes master of you, I do not know what greater thing you will hereafter obtain from yourselves.
εἶτα κἀκεῖνο μὲν ἦν ἂν μὴ λαβεῖν δίκην παρὰ Φωκέων, τοῦτο δʼ αὐτοὺς σῶσαι μὴ βεβουλῆσθαι.
And then, that indeed would have been a failure to exact punishment from the Phocians, but this would be a failure to wish to save yourselves.
βέλτιον δὲ δήπουθεν ἄλλων φείσασθαι διʼ αὑτοὺς ἢ διʼ ἄλλους αὑτοὺς ἀξιοῦν ἀπολωλέναι.
And it is surely better to spare others for one's own sake than to think it right to perish oneself for the sake of others.
οὐ τοίνυν οὐδʼ ὅσʼ ἐβλασφήμησαν οὗτοι περὶ ἡμῶν οὐδένα νοῦν ἔχει.
Furthermore, not even what these men have slandered about us has any sense.
τί γὰρ ἂν γένοιτο ἀλογώτερον ἢ
For what could be more irrational than...