§9ὡς ἐὰν ἀκροᾶσθε αὐτῶν ἀποψηφιεῖσθε· ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἂν ἡγοῦμαι αὐτοὺς δίκην ἀξίαν δεδωκέναι, εἰ ἀκροασάμενοι αὐτῶν καταψηφίσαισθε.
as that you will acquit them if you listen to them; rather, I do not believe they would have paid a worthy penalty even if you should condemn them after listening to them.
πῶς γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οἷς οὐδὲ ταὐτὰ καὶ ὑμῖν συμφέρει;
For how could it be, gentlemen of the jury, since the same things are not advantageous both to them and to you?
οὗτοι μὲν γὰρ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ ἐκ πενήτων πλούσιοι γεγόνασιν ἐκ τῶν ὑμετέρων, ὑμεῖς δὲ διὰ τούτους πένητες.
For these men during the war have become rich from your property instead of being poor, while you are poor because of them.
§10καίτοι οὐ ταῦτα ἀγαθῶν δημαγωγῶν ἐστι, τὰ ὑμέτερα ἐν ταῖς ὑμετέραις συμφοραῖς λαμβάνειν, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ὑμῖν διδόναι.
And yet, it is not the part of good popular leaders to take your property in your misfortunes, but to give their own to you.
καὶ γάρ τοι εἰς τοσοῦτον ἥκομεν, ὥσθʼ οἳ πρότερον ἐν τῇ εἰρήνῃ οὐδὲ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἐδύναντο τρέφειν, νῦν ὑμῖν εἰσφορὰς εἰσφέρουσι καὶ χορηγοῦσι καὶ οἰκίας μεγάλας οἰκοῦσι.
And indeed, we have come to such a pass that those who previously in peacetime could not even feed themselves are now paying war taxes to you, serving as choregoi, and living in great houses.
§11καίτοι ἑτέροις ὑμεῖς ἔστιν ὅτε τὰ πατρῷα κεκτημένοις ταῦτα ποιοῦσιν ἐφθονεῖτε· νῦν δʼ οὕτως ἡ πόλις διάκειται, ὥστε οὐκέτι ὧν οὗτοι κλέπτουσιν ὀργίζεσθε, ἀλλʼ ὧν αὐτοὶ λαμβάνετε χάριν ἴστε, ὥσπερ ὑμεῖς τὰ τούτων μισθοφοροῦντες, ἀλλʼ οὐ τούτων τὰ ὑμέτερα κλεπτόντων.
And yet, there were times when you envied others who possessed ancestral wealth for doing these very things; but now the city is in such a state that you no longer feel anger at what these men steal, but rather feel grateful for what you yourselves receive, as if you were receiving wages from their property, and not they stealing your own.
§12τὸ δὲ πάντων ὑπερφυέστατον, ὅτι ἐν μὲν τοῖς ἰδίοις οἱ ἀδικούμενοι δακρύουσι καὶ ἐλεινοί εἰσιν, ἐν δὲ τοῖς δημοσίοις οἱ μὲν ἀδικοῦντες ἐλεινοί, ὑμεῖς δʼ οἱ ἀδικούμενοι ἐλεεῖτε.
But the most monstrous thing of all is that while in private suits the victims weep and are pitied, in public ones the wrongdoers are pitied, and you, the victims, do the pitying.
καὶ νῦν ἴσως ποιήσουσιν ἅπερ καὶ πρότερον ἦσαν εἰθισμένοι καὶ δημόται καὶ φίλοι, κλαίοντες ἐξαιτεῖσθαι αὐτοὺς παρʼ ὑμῶν.
And now perhaps, as they have been accustomed to do before, both their fellow-demesmen and friends will, weeping, beg them off from you.
§13ἐγὼ δʼ οὕτως ἀξιῶ γενέσθαι· εἰ μὲν ἀδικεῖν τούτους μηδὲν νομίζουσιν, ἀποδείξαντας ὡς ψευδῆ τὰ κατηγορημένα, οὕτως πείθειν ὑμᾶς ἀποψηφίσασθαι· εἰ δὲ νομίσαντες ἀδικεῖν αἰτήσονται, δῆλον ὅτι τοῖς ἀδικοῦσιν εὐνούστεροί εἰσιν ἢ ὑμῖν τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις, ὥστʼ οὐ χάριτος ἄξιοι τυχεῖν ἀλλὰ τιμωρίας, §14ὁπόταν ὑμεῖς δύνησθε.
But I demand that it be done in this way: if they believe that these men have done no wrong, let them prove that the accusations are false, and in this way persuade you to acquit them; but if, believing them to have done wrong, they make their petition, it is clear that they are well-disposed to the wrongdoers rather than to you, the victims, so that they deserve to meet not with favor but with punishment, whenever you are able to inflict it.
ἔτι δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἡγεῖσθαι χρὴ καὶ τῶν κατηγόρων σφόδρα δεδεῆσθαι, νομίζοντας πολὺ ἂν θᾶττον παρʼ ἡμῶν ὀλίγων ὄντων ταύτην τὴν χάριν λαμβάνειν ἢ παρʼ ὑμῶν, ἔτι δὲ ῥᾷον ἄλλους τινὰς τὰ ὑμέτερα καταχαρίζεσθαι ἢ ὑμᾶς αὐτούς γε.
Furthermore, you must believe that these same men have also made strong entreaties to the accusers, thinking that they would much more quickly receive this favor from us, who are few, than from you, and that it is much easier for some others to give away your property than for you yourselves to do so.
§15ἡμεῖς μὲν τοίνυν οὐκ ἠθελήσαμεν προδοῦναι, ἀξιοῦμεν δὲ μηδʼ ὑμᾶς, ἐνθυμουμένους ὅτι σφόδρʼ ἂν ἡμῖν ὠργίζεσθε καὶ ἐτιμωρεῖσθε, ὅπου παρεπίπτομεν, ὡς εἰκὸς τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας, εἰ ἡμεῖς παρὰ τούτων ἢ χρήματα λαβόντες ἢ ἄλλῳ τινὶ τρόπῳ διηλλάγημεν.
We, then, refused to betray you, and we demand that you do not do so either, bearing in mind that you would have been exceedingly angry with us and would have punished us, wherever we fell into your hands, as is natural for wrongdoers, if we had either taken money from these men or become reconciled in some other way.
καίτοι εἰ τοῖς μὴ δικαίως ἐπεξιοῦσιν ὀργίζεσθε, ἦ που σφόδρα χρὴ αὐτοὺς τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας τιμωρεῖσθαι.
And yet, if you are angry with those who do not prosecute justly, surely you must exceedingly punish the wrongdoers themselves.
§16νῦν τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καταψηφισάμενοι Ἐπικράτους τῶν ἐσχάτων τιμήσατε, καὶ μή, ὥσπερ ἐν τῷ τέως χρόνῳ εἰθισμένοι ἐστέ, ἐπειδὰν καταψηφισάμενοι ἐξελέγξητε τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας, ἐν τῷ τιμήματι ἀζημίους ἀφίετε, ἔχθραν, οὐ δίκην παρὰ τῶν ἀδικούντων λαμβάνοντες, ὥσπερ τοῦ ὀνείδους ἀλλʼ οὐ τῆς ζημίας αὐτοῖς μέλον, εὖ εἰδότες ὅτι ἐν μὲν τῇ ψήφῳ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ποιεῖτε ἢ ὀνειδίζετε τοῖς ἀδικοῦσιν, ἐν δὲ τῷ τιμήματι τιμωρεῖσθε τοὺς ἐξαμαρτάνοντας.
Now therefore, gentlemen of the jury, condemn Epicrates and sentence him to the extreme penalty; and do not, as you have been accustomed to do in the past, after you have condemned and convicted the wrongdoers, let them off without penalty in the assessment, thereby receiving enmity and not satisfaction from the wrongdoers, as if they cared for the disgrace and not for the loss, knowing well that in your vote you do nothing else than reproach the wrongdoers, but in the assessment you punish the offenders.