§12ὅμως μέντοι ἵνα μὴ ὑπὸ τούτου τοιούτου ὄντος πράγματʼ ἔχοι, δοὺς ἀργύριον ἀπηλλάγη.
Nevertheless, so that he might not have trouble from such a man, Archippus got off by giving him money.
καίτοι ὁπότε οὗτος παρʼ ἑτέρου ἠξίωσε δίκην ἀσεβείας λαβεῖν, ἦ που ἑτέρους γε παρὰ τούτου λαβεῖν δίκαιον καὶ εὐσεβές ἐστιν.
And yet, since this man thought it right to exact a penalty for impiety from another, surely it is just and pious for others to exact it from him.
§13ἀλλὰ λέξει δεινὸν εἶναι, εἰ ὁ μὲν μηνυτὴς τὰ ἔσχατα πείσεται, οἱ δὲ μηνυθέντες τῶν αὐτῶν ὑμῖν ἐπίτιμοι ὄντες μεθέξουσι.
But he will say that it is a terrible thing if the informer suffers the extreme penalty, while those informed against participate with you, being in possession of their civic rights.
καίτοι οὐχ ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ ἀπολογήσεται, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κατηγορήσει.
And yet, he will not defend himself, but will also accuse others.
τοὺς μὲν οὖν ἄλλους οἱ ἐπιτάξαντες καταδέξασθαι ἀδικοῦσι καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀσεβήματος αἴτιοί εἰσιν· εἰ δʼ ὑμεῖς αὐτοκράτορες ὄντες αὐτοί ἐστε οἱ ἀφελόντες τὰς τιμωρίας τῶν θεῶν, ἀλλʼ οὐχ οὗτοι αἴτιοι ἔσονται.
Now, those who ordered the others to be received back are doing wrong and are responsible for the same impiety; but if you, who have absolute power, are yourselves the ones who remove the punishments of the gods, then not they, but you will be responsible.
ὑμεῖς οὖν μὴ βούλεσθε εἰς ὑμᾶς τὴν αἰτίαν ταύτην περιτρέψαι, ἐξὸν τὸν ἀδικοῦντα κολάσασιν ἀπηλλάχθαι.
Therefore, do not wish to turn this blame upon yourselves, when you can be free of it by punishing the wrongdoer.
§14ἔπειτα δʼ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἀρνοῦνται τὰ μεμηνυμένα, οὗτος δὲ ὁμολογεῖ ποιῆσαι.
Furthermore, while those men deny what was informed against them, this man confesses that he did it.
καίτοι καὶ ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ, ἐν τῷ σεμνοτάτῳ καὶ δικαιοτάτῳ δικαστηρίῳ, ὁμολογῶν μὲν ἀδικεῖν ἀποθνῄσκει, ἐὰν δὲ ἀμφισβητῇ, ἐλέγχεται, καὶ πολλοὶ οὐδὲν ἔδοξαν ἀδικεῖν.
And yet, even in the Areopagus, the most solemn and just court, one who confesses to doing wrong is put to death, whereas if he disputes it, he is tried, and many have been deemed to have done no wrong.
οὔκουν ὁμοίαν χρὴ γνώμην ἔχειν περί τε τῶν ἀρνουμένων καὶ περὶ τῶν ὁμολογούντων.
Therefore, one should not hold the same opinion about those who deny and those who confess.
§15δεινὸν δέ μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι· ἐὰν μέν τις ἀνδρὸς σῶμα τρώσῃ, κεφαλὴν ἢ πρόσωπον ἢ χεῖρας ἢ πόδας, οὗτος μὲν κατὰ τοὺς νόμους τοὺς ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου φεύξεται τὴν τοῦ ἀδικηθέντος πόλιν, καὶ ἐὰν κατίῃ, ἐνδειχθεὶς θανάτῳ ζημιωθήσεται· ἐὰν δέ τις τὰ αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἀδικήσῃ τὰ ἀγάλματα τῶν θεῶν, οὐδʼ αὐτῶν κωλύσετε τῶν ἱερῶν ἐπιβαίνειν ἢ εἰσιόντα οὐ τιμωρήσεσθε;
And it seems to me to be a terrible thing: if someone wounds the body of a man, his head or face or hands or feet, he will be exiled from the city of the wronged person according to the laws of the Areopagus, and if he returns, he will be indicted and punished with death; but if someone commits these very same wrongs against the statues of the gods, will you not even prevent him from entering their temples, or will you not punish him when he enters?
καὶ μὲν δὴ τούτων καὶ δίκαιον καὶ ἀγαθόν ἐστιν ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, ὑφʼ ὧν καὶ εὖ καὶ κακῶς δυνήσεσθε πάσχειν.
And indeed, it is both just and beneficial to care for those by whom you can be affected both well and ill.
§16φασὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων πολλοὺς διὰ τὰ ἐνθάδε ἀσεβήματα ἐκ τῶν παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἱερῶν ἐξείργειν.
And they say that many of the Greeks exclude him from the temples in their own lands because of his impieties here.
ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοὶ οἱ ἀδικηθέντες περὶ ἐλάττονος ποιεῖσθε τὰ παρʼ ὑμῖν νόμιμα ἢ ἕτεροι τὰ ὑμέτερα.
But you, the wronged parties themselves, value your own traditional laws less than others value yours.
§17τοσοῦτον δʼ οὗτος Διαγόρου τοῦ Μηλίου ἀσεβέστερος γεγένηται· ἐκεῖνος μὲν γὰρ λόγῳ περὶ τὰ ἀλλότρια ἱερὰ καὶ ἑορτὰς ἠσέβει, οὗτος δὲ ἔργῳ περὶ τὰ ἐν τῇ αὑτοῦ πόλει.
And this man has become so much more impious than Diagoras of Melos; for that man was impious in speech regarding foreign temples and festivals, but this man in deed regarding those in his own city.
ὀργίζεσθαι οὖν χρή, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοῖς ἀστοῖς ἀδικοῦσι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς ξένοις περὶ ταῦτα τὰ ἱερά· τὸ μὲν γὰρ ὥσπερ ἀλλότριόν ἐστιν ἁμάρτημα, τὸ δʼ οἰκεῖον.
Therefore, men of Athens, it is necessary to be angry with citizens who do wrong rather than with foreigners concerning these sacred things; for the former is, as it were, a foreign offense, but the latter is domestic.
§18καὶ μὴ οὓς μὲν ἔχετε ἀδικοῦντας ἀφίετε, τοὺς δὲ φεύγοντας ζητεῖτε συλλαμβάνειν, ἐπικηρύττοντες τάλαντον ἀργυρίου δώσειν τῷ ἀπάγοντι ἢ ἀποκτείναντι.
And do not dismiss those whom you hold guilty, while seeking to arrest those who are in exile, proclaiming that you will give a talent of silver to the one who brings them back or kills them.
εἰ δὲ μή, δόξετε τοῖς Ἕλλησι κομπάζειν μᾶλλον ἢ τιμωρεῖσθαι βούλεσθαι.
Otherwise, you will seem to the Greeks to be boasting rather than wishing to punish.
§19ἐπεδείξατο δὲ καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ὅτι θεοὺς οὐ νομίζει.
And he also demonstrated to the Greeks that he does not believe in gods.
οὐ γὰρ ὡς δεδιὼς τὰ πεποιημένα, ἀλλʼ ὡς θαρρῶν, ναυκληρίᾳ ἐπιθέμενος τὴν θάλατταν ἔπλει.
For not as one fearing what he had done, but as one being confident, he embarked on shipowning and sailed the sea.
ὁ δὲ θεὸς ὑπῆγεν αὐτόν, ἵνα ἀφικόμενος εἰς τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ προφάσει δοίη δίκην.
But the god led him on, so that having arrived at his offenses, he might pay the penalty on my pretext.
§20ἐλπίζω μὲν οὖν αὐτὸν καὶ δώσειν δίκην, θαυμάσιον δὲ οὐδὲν ἄν μοι γένοιτο, οὔτε γὰρ ὁ θεὸς παραχρῆμα κολάζει· πολλαχόθεν δὲ ἔχω τεκμαιρόμενος εἰκάζειν, ὁρῶν καὶ ἑτέρους ἠσεβηκότας χρόνω δεδωκότας δίκην, καὶ τοὺς ἐξ ἐκείνων διὰ τὰ τῶν προγόνων ἁμαρτήματα· ἐν δὲ τούτω τῷ χρόνῳ δέῃ πολλὰ καὶ κινδύνους ὁ θεὸς ἐπιπέμπει τοῖς ἀδικοῦσιν, ὥστε πολλοὺς ἤδη ἐπιθυμῆσαι τελευτήσαντας τῶν κακῶν ἀπηλλάχθαι.
Now I expect that he will indeed pay the penalty, and it would be nothing surprising to me, for the god does not punish immediately; but I can infer this from many indications, seeing that others also who committed impiety have paid the penalty in course of time, and their descendants because of the ancestral sins; and in this intervening time, the god inflicts many terrors and dangers upon the wrongdoers, so that many have already desired to die and be rid of their evils.
ὁ δὲ θεὸς τέλος τούτῳ λυμηνάμενος τῷ βίῳ θάνατον ἐπέθηκε.
And the god, having finally ruined this life, inflicts death.
§21σκέψασθε δὲ καὶ αὐτοῦ Ἀνδοκίδου τὸν βίον, ἀφʼ οὗ ἠσέβηκε, καὶ εἴ τις τοιοῦτος ἕτερός ἐστιν.
Consider also the life of Andocides himself since he committed impiety, and whether there is any other such man.
Ἀνδοκίδης γὰρ ἐπειδὴ ἥμαρτεν, ἐξ ἐπιβολῆς εἰσαχθεὶς εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον, ἔδησεν ἑαυτὸν τιμησάμενος δεσμοῦ, εἰ μὴ παραδοίη τὸν ἀκόλουθον· εὖ δʼ ἤδει οὐ δυνησόμενος παραδοῦναι,
For Andocides, when he sinned, was brought into the court under arrest, and bound himself by proposing imprisonment as his penalty, unless he should hand over his attendant; and he knew well that he would not be able to hand him over,