§1.1Τὸ μὲν ἀργύριον ἀνεπέμψαμέν σοι πάλιν, ὅπερ ἡμῖν Ἀμφίας ἐκόμιζεν, οὐ δόξαν κενὴν θηρώμενοι, εἰ μή γε καὶ ἀχθεσθήσεσθαί σε μᾶλλον ἢ ἀποδέξεσθαι ἡμᾶς δι’ αὐτὸ ἐνομίζομεν, τοὺς δ’ ἄλλους αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο καὶ μάλιστα πάντων συκοφαντεῖν ἐπιχειρήσειν ὡς ἐπίδειξιν οὖσαν τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ πρόσχημα μᾶλλον εἰς τοὺς πολλούς, οὐ μεγαλοφροσύνην οὐδεμίαν.
We have sent the money back to you which Amphias brought us, not because we are hunting after empty glory, but because we thought that, if we did not, you would be vexed rather than well-disposed toward us because of it, and that others would attempt to slander this very thing of all, as if the matter were a mere show and pretext for the multitude, and not any greatness of soul.
ὥστε τούτοιν μὲν ἀμφοῖν ἕνεκα κἂν ἐδεξάμεθα (καὶ Κλίτων δὲ ἐπέστειλεν ἡμῖν, ὅπως λάβοιμεν, ἀπειλήσας ὀργιεῖσθαι μὴ λαβοῦσιν), ἀλλ’ ὡς τὸ μὲν αὔταρκες ἡμῖν τε καὶ τοῖς φίλοις παρόν, τὸ δὲ ὑπὸ σοῦ πεμφθὲν πλεῖον ἢ ὅσον ἥ τε κτῆσις ἥρμοζε καὶ ἦν ἡμῖν ἡ φυλακὴ ῥᾳδία.
Therefore, for both of these reasons we might indeed have accepted it (and Cleiton too wrote to us that we should receive it, threatening to be angry if we did not), but because what is sufficient is present to us and to our friends, while that which was sent by you was more than what was suitable for us to possess and easy for us to keep.
§1.2(2) περὶ δὲ τῶν Πελλαίων νεανίσκων καὶ πρότερον ἤδη ἐπεστείλαμέν σοι δεόμενοι, καὶ νῦν δεόμεθα σῶσαί τε αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀνεῖναι τῶν δεσμῶν· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀδικεῖν ἐοίκασιν ἢ οὐδὲν βλάψειν ἀφεθέντες ἔτι.
(2) Concerning the young men of Pella, we have already written to you before with our request, and we request you now also to save them and to release them from their bonds; for they seem to have done no wrong, nor are they likely to do any harm if they are released now.
μέτριον δὲ καὶ τὸ χαρίσασθαι δεομένοις ἡμῖν καὶ τὸ ἐλεῆσαι δὲ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν γέροντα, ὡς ἔστι πυνθάνεσθαι τῶν εὐγενεστάτων ἐν Πέλλῃ καὶ κατὰ τἄλλα δοκίμων, ὃς αὐτὸς ἐλθὼν Ἀθήναζε ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς κατέφυγεν, ἐλπίσας δύνασθαί τι παρὰ σοί, καὶ ἐδεήθη ταῦτα ἐπιστεῖλαί σοι.
It is reasonable both to grant this favor to us who request it, and to pity their old father, as can be learned from the most noble and otherwise esteemed men in Pella. He himself, having come to Athens, fled to us for refuge, hoping that we would have some influence with you, and begged us to write these things to you.
ἀλλὰ μὴ φαυλότερος γένῃ περὶ ἡμᾶς ἢ ἐκεῖνος ὑπέλαβεν.
Therefore, do not show yourself less kind to us than he supposed you to be.