§321ἐκφέρειν.
to expose them.
καὶ ὅπως αὖ μή με φήσεις πικρότερα τοῦ δέοντος λέγειν.
And mind that you do not again say that I speak more bitterly than is necessary.
οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγέ τις τούτων αἴτιος, ἀλλʼ ἔδει δέχεσθαι τὴν πρόκλησιν.
For I am not the cause of any of these things, but it was necessary to accept the challenge.
αὕτη δὲ τίς ἦν;
And what was this?
τολμᾶν ἀκροᾶσθαι, ὥσπερ ἐν δικαστηρίῳ ἴσους καὶ κοινοὺς ἀμφοῖν.
To dare to listen, as in a court of justice, as equal and common hearers to both.
ἀλλὰ γὰρ ὀρθῶς ἐγὼ περὶ τούτων, ὡς ἔοικε, προεωρώμην καὶ προὔλεγον ὡς εἰ μή τις ἅπαντος τοῦ λόγου διακούσεται, οὐ μόνον οὐ τιμήσει τὰ πρέποντα, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ εἴσεται τοῦ πράγματος οὐδέν.
But indeed, I was right, as it seems, in foreseeingly predicting concerning these matters that unless one hears the whole argument through, not only will he fail to honor what is fitting, but he will not even know anything of the matter.
διὰ ταῦτα ἠξίουν ἀκροᾶσθαι διὰ τέλους ὅστις μέλλει τὸ ἀγώνισμα πᾶν ὄψεσθαι καὶ ψῆφον ὀρθὴν καὶ δικαίαν ἐποίσειν.
For these reasons I demanded that whoever is going to view the whole contest and bring a correct and just verdict should listen to the end.
οὐδὲ γὰρ, ὦ ἄριστε ἀνδρῶν, οἱ δικασταὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον κρίνουσι καὶ προοιμίου τινὸς ἢ διηγήσεως ἀκούσαντες ἀπαλλάττονται, οὐδὲ αὖ ταῦτα παρέντες πρὸς μέρος τι τῶν εἰκότων συνῆλθον, ἢ ὅσον μιᾶς τινος μαρτυρίας ἀκοῦσαι ἢ τῆς ἐπανόδου τῶν εἰρημένων, ἀλλʼ ἀκούσαντες ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς εἰς τέλος οὕτω τὴν ψῆφον φέρουσι· καὶ τοῦτο κἀκείνοις οἶμαι λυσιτελεῖ.
For, my excellent sir, judges do not decide in this manner and depart after hearing some prelude or narrative, nor again do they pass over these and assemble for some part of the probabilities, or only to hear a single testimony or the summary of what has been said, but having heard from beginning to end they thus cast their vote; and this, I think, is profitable for them as well.
πρὸς τῶν θεῶν τῶν ὁρκίων οὐδέ γε ὑμεῖς ὅταν ποιῆτε Ὀλύμπια, οὐχ οὕτως ἀγωνοθετεῖτε, τοῦ μὲν ἅπαντα ἀκούσαντες τῶν ἀγωνιστῶν, τοῦ δὲ ὅσον εἰσόδιον, ἢ τῶν μὲν ἐν μέσῳ τι, ἢ τῶν ἐν τέλει.
By the gods of oaths, not even you, when you hold the Olympic games, do you thus preside over the contest, hearing the whole of one competitor's performance, but only the entrance of another, or some middle part of some, or the end of others.
πρὸς οὖν τί τοῦτο λέγω;
To what purpose, then, do I say this?
ὅτι μικρῷ τινι τοῦ λόγου μέρει προστυχὼν ἀπὸ τούτου τὸ πᾶν ἔκρινας, προοιμίου δὲ οὐκ ἤκουσας οὐδὲ τῆς ὅλης καταστάσεως, ἣν ἐξῆν μηδὲν ἐλάττονος ἀξίαν νομίσαι τοῦ παντὸς ἀγῶνος, ὡς περὶ μέρους εἰπεῖν.
Because, having hit upon some small part of the argument, you judged the whole from this, and you did not hear the prelude nor the whole of the statement, which it was possible to consider of no less value than the whole contest, so to speak of it as a part.
τὸ γὰρ ἦθος ὅλον ἐνταῦθα ἂν μᾶλλον.
For the whole character would rather have been there.
ἐν αὐτοῖς γὰρ ἔγνως ὡς ἐπαινέσοντες πλέον τὸν ἄνδρα ἢ καθαιρήσοντες εἰσῄειμεν.
For in them you would have known that we entered upon the argument to praise the man more than to pull him down.
οὕτω πᾶσαν αἰδῶ καὶ τιμὴν ἀπεδώκαμεν αὐτῷ, ὥστε εἰ αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτὸν ἔμελλεν ἀντερεῖν, οὐκ ἄν μοι δοκοίη μᾶλλον αὑτοῦ
We paid him all respect and honor to such a degree that, if he himself were going to speak against himself, he would not, it seems to me, have spared himself more.
§322φείσασθαι. οἶμαι δὲ εἰ καὶ υἱὸς ἐκείνου ἔμελλεν ἀντερεῖν αὐτῷ, οὐκ ἂν πλείω τὴν παραίτησιν ἐποιήσατο, οὐδʼ ἂν περιφανέστερον ἐκόσμησεν εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας.
And I think that even if his son had been going to speak against him, he would not have made a greater apology, nor would he have adorned him more conspicuously before the Greeks.
σὺ δὲ τούτων ἀπολειφθεὶς ὅμοιος εἶ τῷ πρὶν ἀμφοῖν ἀκοῦσαι τὸν μῦθον δικάζοντι.
But you, being left behind in these matters, are like one who judges before hearing the story from both sides.
καίτοι ἕτερός γʼ ἂν ἔχων συνέχειαν ἐπελάθετο καὶ αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ, μὴ ὅτι τοῦ ἀντιπάλου, καὶ τὸ προκείμενον δεικνὺς οὐδὲν ἂν πλέον ἐζήτει.
And yet another, having continuity, would have forgotten even himself, not to speak of his opponent, and, showing the proposition, would have sought nothing more.
ἐγὼ δὲ ὥσπερ δεδοικὼς μὴ φαυλότερος περὶ ταῦτα ἐκεῖνος νομισθῇ, τὸ ἐκείνου σπεύδων παρὰ πάντα τὸν λόγον διαγίγνομαι· καὶ τῆς ἀποδείξεως οὕτω συνεχοῦς καὶ πυκνῆς οὔσης, ἐξέστω γὰρ εἰπεῖν, τὸ σχῆμα τῶν λόγων τῶν πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα οὐχ ἧττον ἀγαστόν ἐστιν, ὅτι οὐχ ἑτέρως μὲν τὴν κρηπῖδα ὑπέθηκα, ἑτέρως δὲ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐπήγαγον, ἀλλʼ ἀκολουθεῖ πανταχοῦ τῷ λόγῳ τὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς προορώμενον, καὶ δείκνυμεν ὅτι ἀντιλέγοντες τὰ ἀναγκαῖα κοσμοῦμεν ἐκ περιουσίας.
But I, as if fearing lest he be thought more trivial in these matters, continue through the whole argument zealously promoting his interest; and while the demonstration is thus continuous and dense—if indeed it may be permitted to say so—the form of the words addressed to the man is no less admirable, because I did not lay the foundation in one way and bring in the rest in another, but the foresight for the man follows the argument everywhere, and we show that while contradicting we adorn what is necessary out of abundance.
καίτοι ἐβουλόμην ἂν ἐκεῖνον οὕτως ἀντειπεῖν μοι δεῦρο γενόμενον, ἀλλʼ ἴσως ἧττον ἂν τοῦ τοιούτου ἐμέλησεν αὐτῷ.
And yet, I could have wished that he had come here and contradicted me thus, but perhaps he would have cared less for such a thing.
σκόπει τοίνυν καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς τελευτῆς τῶν λόγων ὡς ἀκόλουθα τῷ προοιμίῳ· τοῦτο μὲν περὶ τῶν τῷ ὄντι ῥητόρων διαλεγόμενοι, Πλάτων δʼ ἡμῖν ποῦ χοροῦ, φαμὲν, στήσεται; ἡμεῖς μὲν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ καλλίστῳ τάττειν ἕτοιμοι τοιουτοισί τισι τοῖς ῥήμασιν, οὐ γὰρ τό γʼ ἀκριβέστερον μέμνημαι· τοῦτο δὲ ἑτέρων τινῶν ἀνθρωπίσκων μνησθέντες, πρὸς δὲ δὴ Πλάτωνα, τὸν τῶν ῥητόρων πατέρα τε καὶ διδάσκαλον, οὕτως οἶμαι τὸ ἐφεξῆς εἰρήκαμεν, καὶ τοσαῦτά γʼ ἐστὶν οὐ τὸν βίον τὸν ἐκείνου καὶ τοὺς λόγους εἰς ὅσον οἷόν τε σεμνύνοντος, καὶ ταυτὶ πάντα ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀκριβολογοῦμαι καὶ διεξέρχομαι, φησὶ Δημοσθένης, ἐπεὶ τό γε τοῦ Πινδάρου πολλοὶ ὑμνοῦσι
"χρὴ δὲ πᾶν ἔρδοντʼ ἀμαυρῶσαι τὸν ἐχθρόν. "
ἐχθρὸν δέ που λέγει τὸν ἀντίπαλον.
Consider then also the things at the end of the arguments, how they agree with the prelude; on the one hand, speaking about those who are truly rhetoricians, we say, "Where in our chorus shall Plato stand?" We are ready to place him in the finest position with some such words as these—for I do not remember the exact words—and on the other hand, having mentioned some other worthless fellows, we spoke next, I think, to Plato, the father and teacher of rhetoricians, in this manner, and these words are of one who honors his life and arguments as much as possible; and "all these things I discuss accurately and go through for the sake of truth," says Demosthenes, since many sing that saying of Pindar: "One must darken the enemy, doing everything." And by "enemy" he surely means the opponent.
καὶ σχεδὸν ἔν τε ταῖς σφαιρομαχίαις καὶ τοῖς γυμνικοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀγῶσι, προσθήσω δὲ καὶ ἱππικοῖς, οὕτως ὁρῶμεν οὐ τοῖς τῶν ἀντιπάλων βουλήμασιν ἀκολουθοῦντας τοὺς περὶ τῆς νίκης ἐρίζοντας,
And indeed in ball-games and in the gymnastic contests themselves, and I will add in the equestrian ones, we see those who contend for victory acting in this way, not following the wishes of their opponents,