§10καὶ ἀρχὴν μὲν οὐδεμίαν ἦρξεν ἐν τῇ ὀλιγαρχίᾳ· ἐπειδὴ δὲ τάχιστα ἦλθον εἰς τὴν Ἀκαδήμειαν Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ Παυσανίας, λαβὼν τὸν Νικηράτου καὶ ἡμᾶς παῖδας ὄντας, ἐκεῖνον μὲν κατέθηκεν ἐπὶ τοῖς γόνασι τοῖς Παυσανίου, ἡμᾶς δὲ παραστησάμενος ἔλεγε πρὸς ἐκεῖνον καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους τοὺς παρόντας ὅσα εἴημεν πεπονθότες καὶ οἵαις τύχαις κεχρημένοι, καὶ ἠξίου Παυσανίαν βοηθῆσαι καὶ διὰ τὴν φιλίαν καὶ διὰ τὴν ξενίαν τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν, καὶ τιμωρὸν γενέσθαι τῶν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἡμαρτηκότων.
And he held no office under the oligarchy; but as soon as the Lacedaemonians and Pausanias came to the Academy, taking the son of Niceratus and us who were children, he placed him on the knees of Pausanias, and standing us beside him, he told him and the others who were present how much we had suffered and what kind of fortunes we had experienced, and he requested Pausanias to help us both because of the friendship and the existing guest-friendship, and to become an avenger of those who had sinned against us.
§11ὅθεν Παυσανίας ἤρξατο εὔνους εἶναι τῷ δήμῳ, παράδειγμα ποιούμενος πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους Λακεδαιμονίους τὰς ἡμετέρας συμφορὰς τῆς τῶν τριάκοντα πονηρίας· δῆλον γὰρ ἅπασι τοῖς ἐλθοῦσι Πελοποννησίων ἐγεγένητο, ὅτι οὐ τοὺς πονηροτάτους τῶν πολιτῶν ἀπέκτεινον, ἀλλʼ οἷς μάλιστα προσῆκον καὶ διὰ γένος καὶ διὰ πλοῦτον καὶ διὰ τὴν ἄλλην ἀρετὴν τιμᾶσθαι.
Hence Pausanias began to be well-disposed to the people, making our misfortunes an example to the other Lacedaemonians of the wickedness of the Thirty; for it had become clear to all the Peloponnesians who came that they were putting to death not the most wicked of the citizens, but those who most deserved to be honored both because of their birth, wealth, and other virtue.
§12οὕτω δʼ ἠλεούμεθα καὶ πᾶσι δεινὰ ἐδοκοῦμεν πεπονθέναι, ὥστε Παυσανίας τὰ μὲν παρὰ τῶν τριάκοντα ξένια οὐκ ἠθέλησε λαβεῖν, τὰ δὲ παρʼ ἡμῶν ἐδέξατο.
And we were so pitied, and seemed to all to have suffered such terrible things, that Pausanias refused to accept the gifts of hospitality from the Thirty, but accepted those from us.
καίτοι δεινόν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν πολεμίων παῖδας ἡμᾶς ὄντας ἐλεεῖσθαι, οἳ τῇ ὀλιγαρχία βοηθήσοντες ἦλθον, ὑπὸ δʼ ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τοιούτους γεγενημένους τῶν ὄντων ἀποστερεῖσθαι, ὧν οἱ πατέρες ὑπὲρ τῆς δημοκρατίας ἀπέθανον.
And yet, gentlemen of the jury, is it not terrible that we, being children, were pitied by the enemy who came to help the oligarchy, but by you, gentlemen of the jury, having become such as we are, we are deprived of our possessions, when our fathers died for the democracy?
§13εὖ δʼ οἶδʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὅτι περὶ πλείστου ἂν ποιήσαιτο Πολίοχος τοῦτον τὸν ἀγῶνα κατορθῶσαι, ἡγούμενος αὑτῷ καλὴν εἶναι τὴν ἐπίδειξιν καὶ πρὸς τοὺς πολίτας καὶ τοὺς ξένους, ὅτι Ἀθήνῃσι τοσοῦτον δύναται, ὥσθʼ ὑμᾶς τοὺς αὐτούς, περὶ ὧν ὅρκους ὀμωμόκατε, ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς τὰ ἐναντία ποιεῖν ψηφίζεσθαι.
But I know well, gentlemen of the jury, that Poliochus would make it of the highest importance to succeed in this trial, thinking that it would be a fine display for him both to the citizens and to the strangers, that he has such influence at Athens as to vote to do the contrary to yourselves concerning those things about which you have sworn oaths.
§14πάντες γὰρ εἴσονται ὅτι τότε μὲν χιλίαις δραχμαῖς ἐζημιώσατε τὸν βουλόμενον τὴν ἡμετέραν γῆν δημοσίαν ποιῆσαι, νυνὶ δὲ κελεύων δημεῦσαι νενίκηκε, καὶ περὶ τούτων δὴ ἀμφοτέρων Ἀθηναῖοι, παρὰ νόμον φεύγοντος τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρός, §15τἀναντία σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἐψηφίσαντο.
For everyone will know that whereas then you fined with a thousand drachmas the one who wished to make our land public, now the one who bids to confiscate it has won, and concerning both of these matters the Athenians, although the same man is defending himself contrary to the law, voted the contrary to themselves.
οὐκ οὖν αἰσχρόν, εἰ ἃ μὲν Λακεδαιμονίοις συνέθεσθε βεβαιώσετε, ἃ δὲ αὑτοῖς ἐψηφίσασθε οὕτω ῥᾳδίως διαλύσετε, καὶ τὰς μὲν πρὸς ἐκείνους συνθήκας κυρίας ποιήσετε, τὰς δὲ πρὸς αὑτοὺς ἀκύρους;
Is it not then shameful, if you confirm what you agreed with the Lacedaemonians, but so easily dissolve what you voted for yourselves, and make the treaties with them valid, but those with yourselves invalid?
καὶ τοῖς μὲν ἄλλοις Ἕλλησιν ὀργίζεσθε, εἴ τις Λακεδαιμονίους ὑμῶν περὶ πλείονος ποιεῖται, ὑμεῖς δʼ αὐτοὶ φανήσεσθε πιστότερον πρὸς ἐκείνους ἢ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς διακείμενοι;
And you are angry with the other Greeks if anyone values the Lacedaemonians more than you, but you yourselves will be shown to be more faithfully disposed toward them than toward yourselves?
§16ἄξιον δὲ μάλιστʼ ἀγανακτῆσαι ὅτι οὕτως ἤδη οἱ τὰ τῆς πόλεως πράττοντες διάκεινται, ὥστʼ οὐχ ὅ τι ἂν τῇ πόλει βέλτιστον ᾖ, τοῦτο οἱ ῥήτορες λέγουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἀφʼ ὧν ἂν αὐτοὶ κερδαίνειν μέλλωσι, ταῦτα ὑμεῖς ψηφίζεσθε.
And it is most worthy of indignation that those who manage the affairs of the city are now so disposed, with the result that the orators do not say what would be best for the city, but you vote for those things from which they themselves are about to gain.
§17καὶ εἰ μὲν τῷ ὑμετέρῳ πλήθει συνέφερε τοὺς μὲν ἔχειν τὰ αὑτῶν, τῶν δὲ ἀδίκως δεδημεῦσθαι τὴν οὐσίαν, εἰκότως ἂν ἠμελεῖτε τῶν ὑφʼ ἡμῶν λεγομένων· νυνὶ δὲ πάντες ἂν ὁμολογήσαιτε ὁμόνοιαν μὲν μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι πόλει, στάσιν δὲ πάντῶν κακῶν αἰτίαν, διαφέρεσθαι δὲ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων μάλιστʼ, ἐὰν οἱ μὲν τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμῶσιν, οἱ δʼ ἐκ τῶν ὄντων ἐκπίπτωσι.
And if indeed it were advantageous to your multitude that some should keep their own property while the estate of others should be unjustly confiscated, you would naturally neglect what is said by us; but now you would all agree that harmony is the greatest good for a city, and faction is the cause of all evils, and that people differ with one another most from such things, if some desire what belongs to others, and others fall out of their possessions.
§18καὶ ταῦθʼ ὑμεῖς ἔγνωτε νεωστὶ κατελθόντες, ὀρθῶς βουλευόμενοι· ἔτι γὰρ ἐμέμνησθε τῶν γεγενημένων συμφορῶν, καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς εἰς ὁμόνοιαν ηὔχεσθε καταστῆναι τὴν πόλιν μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ τιμωρίαν τῶν παρεληλυθότων τραπομένων τὴν μὲν πόλιν στασιάσαι, τοὺς δὲ λέγοντας ταχέως πλουτῆσαι.
And you realized this when you recently returned, taking wise counsel; for you still remembered the misfortunes that had occurred, and you prayed to the gods that the city should be restored to harmony, rather than that, turning to the punishment of the past, the city should fall into faction, and the orators quickly grow rich.