33. I found the defendant there and the trierarchs and those who were to succeed them, and some others of our citizens; and on coming in I spoke at once to Polycles in the presence of the general, and called upon him to take over the ship from me, and to pay me for the disbursements made during the period since my term of service had expired; and I asked him about the ship’s equipment, whether he would take it over, or whether he had brought equipment of his own with him.
33. καταλαμβάνω οὖν καὶ τοῦτον ἐκεῖ καὶ τοὺς τριηράρχους καὶ τοὺς διαδόχους καὶ ἄλλους τινὰς τῶν πολιτῶν, καὶ εἰσελθὼν εὐθὺς ἐναντίον τοῦ στρατηγοῦ λόγους πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐποιούμην, καὶ ἠξίουν αὐτὸν τήν τε ναῦν μοι παραλαμβάνειν καὶ τοῦ ἐπιτετριηραρχημένου χρόνου ἀποδιδόναι μοι τὰ ἀναλώματα, καὶ περὶ τῶν σκευῶν ἠρώτων αὐτόν, πότερα παραλήψεται ἢ ἴδια σκεύη ἔχων ἥκοι ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν.
34. When I thus challenged him, he asked me why I was the only one of the trierarchs who had equipment of my own, and whether the state did not know that there were some people able to provide equipment for their ships, so that the state itself did not need to do it. “Or have you,” he said, “so far surpassed the others in wealth as to be the only one of the trierarchs to have equipment of your own and gilded ornaments?”
34. ταῦτα δέ μου προκαλουμένου αὐτόν, ἠρώτα με διʼ ὅ τι σκεύη τε ἴδια μόνος ἔχοιμι τῶν τριηράρχων, καὶ πότερα ἡ πόλις οὐκ εἰδείη τινὰς δυναμένους σκεύη παρασχεῖν ταῖς ναυσίν, ὥστε αὐτὴ μὴ παρέχειν. ἢ σὺ τοσοῦτον ἔφη ὑπερπέπαικας πλούτῳ τοὺς ἄλλους, ὥστε καὶ σκεύη ἴδια ἔχειν καὶ κόσμον χρυσόπαστον μόνος τῶν τριηράρχων;
35. “Who,” he continued, “could endure your madness and extravagance, a crew corrupted and accustomed to receive large sums in advance and to enjoy exemption from services normally required on board a ship, and able also to make use of the baths, and marines and rowers rendered luxurious by high wages paid in full? Bad ways,” he said, “are these you have taught the army. It is partly your fault that the troops of the other trierarchs have become more unruly, seeking to have the same treatment that yours enjoy; you ought to have done the same as the other trierarchs.”
35. τίς ἂν οὖν δύναιτʼ ἔφη τὴν σὴν μανίαν καὶ πολυτέλειαν ὑπομεῖναι, διεφθαρμένον μὲν πλήρωμα καὶ εἰωθὸς ἀργύριον πολὺ προλαμβάνειν καὶ ἀτελείας ἄγειν τῶν νομιζομένων ἐν τῇ νηὶ λῃτουργιῶν καὶ λοῦσθαι ἐν βαλανείῳ, τρυφῶντας δʼ ἐπιβάτας καὶ ὑπηρεσίαν ὑπὸ μισθοῦ πολλοῦ καὶ ἐντελοῦς; κακῶν δʼ, ἔφη, διδάσκαλος γέγονας ἐν τῷ στρατεύματι, καὶ αἴτιος εἶ μέρος τι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τριηράρχοις πονηροτέρους εἶναι τοὺς στρατιώτας, ζητοῦντας ταὐτὰ τοῖς παρὰ σοί· ἔδει γὰρ σὲ ταὐτὰ ποιεῖν τοῖς ἄλλοις τριηράρχοις.
36. Upon his saying this, I answered that the reason I had taken no equipment from the docks was because, “You,” said I, “have brought the stores into bad repute. However, if you like, take this equipment of mine; if not, provide equipment for yourself. As for the sailors and marines and rowers, if you say that they have been corrupted by me, take over the ship, and get sailors and marines and rowers for yourself, who will sail with you without pay. But take over the ship, for it is not my place to serve any longer; the term of my trierarchy has expired, and I have served four months beyond it.”
36. λέγοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα, ἀπεκρινάμην αὐτῷ ὅτι σκεύη μὲν διὰ τοῦτο οὐ λάβοιμι ἐκ τοῦ νεωρίου, ὅτι σὺ ἀδόκιμα ἐποίησας αὐτά. ἀλλʼ εἰ μὲν βούλει, ταῦτα παράλαβε· εἰ δὲ μή, σκεύη σαυτῷ παρασκεύαζε. περὶ δὲ τῶν ναυτῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπιβατῶν καὶ τῆς ὑπηρεσίας, εἰ φὴς ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ αὐτοὺς διεφθάρθαι, παραλαβὼν τὴν τριήρη αὐτὸς σαυτῷ κατασκεύασαι καὶ ναύτας καὶ ἐπιβάτας καὶ ὑπηρεσίαν, οἵτινές σοι μηδὲν λαβόντες συμπλεύσονται. τὴν δὲ ναῦν παράλαβε· οὐ γὰρ ἔτι μοι προσήκει τριηραρχεῖν· ὅ τε γὰρ χρόνος ἐξήκει μοι τῆς τριηραρχίας, καὶ ἐπιτετριηράρχηκα τέτταρας μῆνας.
37. When I said this to him, he answered that his colleague in the trierarchy had not come to the ship. “So,” said he, “I will not take over the ship alone.” To prove that I am telling you the truth in this, that in the market-place he made the answer mentioned above, that he cared nothing for what I was saying, and that in the house where Timomachus lodged he declared that he would not take over the ship alone—the clerk shall read you the depositions bearing on these facts. The Depositions After this, men of the jury, when the defendant would neither take over the ship from me nor pay the expenses for the period beyond my term, and the general ordered me to set sail, I approached him in the harbor in Thasos, and in the presence of the general, when the ship was fully manned, and made a proposal, which was not indeed fair, since the advantage was all on his side, but which was forced upon me by the circumstances.
37. λέγοντος δέ μου ταῦτα, ἀποκρίνεταί μοι ὅτι ὁ συντριήραρχος αὐτῷ οὐχ ἥκοι ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν· οὔκουν παραλήψομαι μόνος τὴν τριήρη. ὡς οὖν ἀληθῆ ταῦτα λέγω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἐν μὲν τῇ ἀγορᾷ ἀπεκρίνατό μοι τὰ πρότερον, ὅτι οὐδὲν αὐτῷ μέλοι ὧν λέγοιμι, ἐν δὲ τῇ οἰκίᾳ οὗ ὁ Τιμόμαχος κατήγετο, ὅτι μόνος οὐ παραλήψεται τὴν ναῦν, τούτων ὑμῖν ἀναγνώσεται τὰς μαρτυρίας. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ. μετὰ ταῦτα τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὡς οὔτε οὗτος ἤθελέ μοι τὴν ναῦν διαδέχεσθαι, οὔτε τὰ ἀναλώματα ἀπεδίδου τοῦ ἐπιτετριηραρχημένου χρόνου, ὅ τε στρατηγὸς προσέταττέ μοι ἀνάγεσθαι, προσελθὼν αὐτῷ ἐν Θάσῳ ἐν τῷ λιμένι ἐναντίον τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, πλήρους οὔσης τῆς τριήρους, ἔλεγον ἃ δίκαια μὲν οὐκ ἦν, ἀλλὰ πλεονεκτήματα τούτου, ἀναγκαῖα δέ μοι ἐκ τῶν παρόντων εἰπεῖν, ἐπειδή σοι φής, ὦ Πολύκλεις, τὸν συντριήραρχον οὐχ ἥκειν, τοῦ μὲν ἐπιτετριηραρχημένου χρόνου ἐκεῖνον ἐγὼ πράξομαι τὰ ἀναλώματα, ἂν δύνωμαι, τῶν τεττάρων μηνῶν·
39. “Since you say, Polycles, that your associate in the trierarchy has not come, I will get from him, if I can, the amount expended during my extra time of service, the four months; but do you take over the ship, and first serve as trierarch for your term, the six months; then, if your colleague shall have arrived in the interim, you will give over the ship, having fulfilled your term of service; and, if he does not come, you will suffer no great harm in serving two months beyond your term.”
39. σὺ δὲ παραλαβὼν τὴν ναῦν πρῶτον μὲν τὸν ὑπὲρ σεαυτοῦ χρόνον τριηράρχησον, τοὺς ἓξ μῆνας· ἔπειτʼ ἐὰν μέν σοι ἔλθῃ ἐν τούτῳ ὁ συντριήραρχος, ἐκείνῳ παραδώσεις λῃτουργήσας, ἐὰν δὲ μή, οὐδὲν δεινὸν πείσει δύο μῆνας ἐπιτριηραρχήσας.
40. “Or, am I, who have served for my own term and that of my colleague, to have performed extra service as trierarch for you and your associate, and are you, who have incurred no expense, to refuse either to take over the ship and serve your own term, or to reimburse me for the expenses I have borne?” When I said this, he answered that I was romancing. Then the general ordered me to go on board my ship and put to sea with him. To prove that he did give me this answer,(to the clerk) please read the deposition. The Deposition I wish now to mention a matter to you, to the end that you may understand how flagrantly I have been wronged.
40. ἢ ἐγὼ μὲν ὁ τόν τε ὑπὲρ ἐμαυτοῦ χρόνον καὶ τοῦ συντριηράρχου λελῃτουργηκὼς ἐπετριηράρχησα ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, σὺ δʼ οὐδὲν ἀνηλωκὼς οὐκ ἀξιοῖς οὐδὲ τὸν ὑπὲρ σεαυτοῦ χρόνον, παραλαβὼν τὴν ναῦν, λῃτουργῆσαι, οὐδὲ τὰ ἀναλώματʼ ἀποδοῦναι; λέγοντος δέ μου ταῦτα, ἀπεκρίνατό μοι ὅτι μύθους λέγοιμι. ὁ δὲ στρατηγὸς ἐμβαίνειν με ἐκέλευεν εἰς τὴν ναῦν καὶ ἀνάγεσθαι μεθʼ ἑαυτοῦ. ὡς οὖν ταῦτʼ ἀπεκρίνατο, ἀνάγνωθί μοι τὴν μαρτυρίαν. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
41. For about the same time Mnesilochus of Perithoidae and Phrasierides of Anaphlystus were appointed to succeed Hagnias and Praxicles. But, since Phrasierides did not arrive to join the ship, Mnesilochus went to Thasos and took over the trireme from Hagnias, and paid to Hagnias what the latter convinced him was due for the expenses he had incurred on their behalf while serving as trierarch beyond his time, and hired from Hagnias the ship’s equipment, and assumed himself the duties of trierarch.
41. βούλομαι δʼ ὑμῖν καὶ τεκμήριόν τι εἰπεῖν, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε ὅτι περιφανῶς ἠδίκημαι. Ἁγνίᾳ γὰρ καὶ Πραξικλεῖ ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον κατέστησαν διάδοχοι Μνησίλοχός τε ὁ Περιθοίδης καὶ Φρασιηρίδης ὁ Ἀναφλύστιος. οὐκ ἀφικομένου δὲ τοῦ Φρασιηρίδου ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν, ὁ Μνησίλοχος ἐλθὼν εἰς τὴν Θάσον παρέλαβέ τε παρὰ τοῦ Ἁγνίου τὴν τριήρη, καὶ τὸ ἐπιτριηράρχημα ἀπέδωκεν τῷ Ἁγνίᾳ τοῦ χρόνου οὗ ἐπανήλωσεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, ὅσον ἔπεισεν, καὶ τὰ σκεύη παρὰ τοῦ Ἁγνίου ἐμισθώσατο, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐτριηράρχει.
42. Afterwards, when the men from Phrasierides came, they paid his share of the expenses to Mnesilochus, and for the remainder of the term joined in meeting whatever expenditures he required for the ship. (To the clerk.) Read, please, the deposition establishing these facts. The Deposition Perhaps, now, men of the jury, you want to hear for what possible reason the general failed to compel the defendant to take over the ship, when he came to it as my successor, the laws on the matter being so strict.
42. ὕστερον δʼ οἱ παρὰ τοῦ Φρασιηρίδου ἐλθόντες τῶν τε ἀνηλωμένων τὸ μέρος ἀπέδοσαν τῷ Μνησιλόχῳ, καὶ τοῦ λοιποῦ χρόνου ὅσα ἐδεῖτο εἰς τὴν ναῦν συνανήλισκον. καί μοι τούτων ἀνάγνωθι τὴν μαρτυρίαν. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.
43. In regard to this I wish to show you clearly why it was. For Timomachus, men of the jury, wished above all things to have the trireme well equipped for every service. He knew, however, that the defendant, if he took over the ship, would manage wretchedly as trierarch; that he would get service neither from the crew nor the marines nor the rowers, for not one of them would stay with him. Besides, he knew that, if he ordered him to sail without giving him money, he would not put out to sea at his bidding, as I should do, but would make trouble. And in addition to this he borrowed from him thirty minae on the understanding that he would not force him to take over the ship.
43. ἴσως οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ποθεῖτε ἀκοῦσαι, διὰ τί ποτε ὁ στρατηγὸς οὐκ ἠνάγκαζε τοῦτον παραλαμβάνειν τὴν ναῦν, διάδοχον ἥκοντα ἐπʼ αὐτήν, τῶν νόμων οὕτως ἰσχυρῶν ὄντων. περὶ δὴ τούτων βούλομαι ὑμᾶς σαφῶς διδάξαι τὸ αἴτιον. Τιμόμαχος γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, πρῶτον μὲν ἐβούλετο εὖ κατεσκευασμένῃ τῇ τριήρει πρὸς ἅπαντα χρῆσθαι. ᾔδειν οὖν ὅτι οὗτος μὲν παραλαβὼν αὐτὴν κακῶς ἔμελλε τριηραρχήσειν· οὔτε γὰρ τῷ τριηραρχήματι οὔτε τοῖς ἐπιβάταις καὶ τῇ ὑπηρεσίᾳ χρήσοιτο· οὐδεὶς γὰρ αὐτῷ παραμενεῖ. ἔτι δὲ πρὸς τούτοις, ὁπότε μὴ διδοὺς ἀργύριον προστάττοι πλεῖν, οὐκ ἔμελλεν αὐτῷ ἀνάξεσθαι ὥσπερ ἐγώ, ἀλλὰ πράγματα παρέξειν. πρὸς δὲ τούτῳ δανείζεται παρʼ αὐτοῦ τριάκοντα μνᾶς, ὥστε μὴ ἀναγκάσαι παραλαβεῖν τὴν ναῦν.
45. But why it was that he was especially incensed against me and treated me despitefully, and would never on any occasion listen to a word from me regarding any matter, I wish to show you clearly, that you may understand that I cared less at that time for my own comfort or for the general’s power than for the people of Athens and the laws, and that I endured ill-treatment and abuse, which were far more grievous to me than the expenses I incurred.
45. ἐξ ὧν δὲ μάλιστά μοι ὀργισθεὶς ἐπηρέαζε καὶ οὐδὲ λόγον ἑκάστοτε ἐδίδου οὐδὲ περὶ ἑνός, βούλομαι ὑμῖν σαφῶς διηγήσασθαι, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε ὅτι οὐ περὶ πλείονος ἐποιούμην οὔτε τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ ῥᾳστώνην ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ χρόνῳ οὔτε τὴν ἐκείνου ῥώμην τοῦ δήμου τοῦ Ἀθηναίων καὶ τῶν νόμων, ἀλλʼ ἠνειχόμην καὶ ἔργῳ ἀδικούμενος καὶ λόγῳ προπηλακιζόμενος, ἃ πολλῷ μοι βαρύτερα ἦν τῶν ἀναλωμάτων.
46. For, while the fleet was lying at Thasos, a despatch-boat came from Methonê in Macedonia to Thasos, bringing a man with letters from Callistratus to Timomachus, which, as I afterward learned, contained a request that he should send the swiftest-sailing ship he had to bring Callistratus to him. At once, then, at daybreak the next morning, the officer from the general came and ordered me to summon my crew to the ship.
46. ὡς γὰρ ἐν Θάσῳ διατριβαὶ τοῦ ναυτικοῦ ἐγίγνοντο, ἀφικνεῖται ἐκ Μεθώνης τῆς Μακεδονίας ὑπηρετικὸν εἰς Θάσον ἄγον ἄνδρα καὶ ἐπιστολὰς παρὰ Καλλιστράτου ὡς Τιμόμαχον, ἐν αἷς ἦν, ὡς ὕστερον ἐγὼ ταῦτʼ ἐπυθόμην, ἀποπέμψαι αὐτῷ τριήρη τὴν ἄριστα πλέουσαν, ἵνʼ ἀφίκηται ὡς αὐτόν. εὐθὺς οὖν τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ ὑπηρέτης ἐλθὼν ἐκέλευέ με καλεῖν εἰς τὴν ναῦν τοὺς ναύτας.
47. When it was manned, Callippus, the son of Philon, of Aexonê, came on board, and ordered the pilot to steer the course for Macedonia. When we had reached a place on the opposite mainland, a trading post of the Thasians, and had gone ashore and were getting our dinner, one of the sailors, Callicles, the son of Epitrephes, of Thria, came up to me, and said that he wished to speak to me about a matter which concerned myself. I bade him speak on, and he said that he wanted to make what return he could for the help I had given him in his need.
47. ἐπεὶ δὲ πλήρης ἦν, ἀναβαίνει Κάλλιππος ὁ Φίλωνος ὁ Αἰξωνεύς, καὶ φράζει πρὸς τὸν κυβερνήτην τὸν ἐπὶ Μακεδονίας πλοῦν πλεῖν. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀφικόμεθα εἰς χωρίον τι ἐν τῇ ἀπαντικρὺ ἠπείρῳ, Θασίων ἐμπόριον, καὶ ἐκβάντες ἠριστοποιούμεθα, προσέρχεταί μοι τῶν ναυτῶν Καλλικλῆς Ἐπιτρέφους Θριάσιος, λέγων ὅτι βούλοιτό μοι διαλεχθῆναι ἐμόν τι πρᾶγμα. κελεύσαντος δέ μου, λέγει ὅτι βούλοιτό μοι χάριν ἀποδοῦναι καθʼ ὅ τι δύναται ὧν αὐτῷ ἀπορηθέντι ἔδωκα·
48. “Do you know, then,” he asked, “for what purpose you are making this voyage, and where you are going?” When I replied that I did not know, he said, “Then I will tell you; for you must learn this in order to plan your action aright. You are going,” said he, “to bring Callistratus, an exile whom the Athenians have twice condemned to death, from Methonê to Thasos to Timomachus, his kinsman by marriage. I have found this out,” he said, “from the servants of Callippus. For your own part, then, if you are wise, you will not permit any exile to come on board the ship; for the laws forbid it.”
48. σὺ οὖν, ἔφη, τὸν πλοῦν τοῦτον οἶσθα ἐφʼ ὅ τι πλεῖς ἢ ποῖ; ἀποκριναμένου δέ μου ὅτι οὐκ εἰδείην, ἀλλʼ ἐγώ σοι, ἔφη, ἐρῶ· δεῖ γάρ σε ἀκούσαντα ὀρθῶς βουλεύσασθαι. μέλλεις γάρ, ἔφη, ἄγειν ἄνδρα φυγάδα, οὗ Ἀθηναῖοι θάνατον δὶς κατεψηφίσαντο, Καλλίστρατον ἐκ Μεθώνης εἰς Θάσον ὡς Τιμόμαχον τὸν κηδεστήν, ὡς ἐγώ, ἔφη, πέπυσμαι τῶν παίδων τῶν Καλλίππου. σὺ οὖν, ἐὰν σωφρονῇς, οὐδένα τῶν φευγόντων ἐάσεις ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν ἀναβαίνειν· οὐ γὰρ ἐῶσιν οἱ νόμοι.
49. On hearing this from Callicles, I approached Callippus, and asked him to what place he was sailing, and whom he was going to fetch. He spoke roughly to me and threatened me in a way you can easily understand (for you are not without experience of the ways of Callippus), and I said to him, “I hear that you are sailing to fetch Callistratus. Now, I will transport no exile, nor will I go to fetch him; for the laws forbid anyone to give harborage to any exile, and make one who does so liable to the same punishment. I shall, therefore, sail back to the general in Thasos.”
49. ἀκούσας δʼ ἐγὼ ταῦτα τοῦ Καλλικλέους προσέρχομαι τῷ Καλλίππῳ, καὶ ἐρωτῶ αὐτὸν ὅποι τε τὸν πλοῦν ποιεῖται καὶ ἐπὶ τίνα. διαχλευάσαντος δʼ αὐτοῦ με καὶ ἀπειλήσαντος ἃ οὐδʼ ἂν ὑμεῖς ἀγνοήσαιτε (τοῦ γὰρ τρόπου τοῦ Καλλίππου οὐκ ἀπείρως ἔχετε), λέγω αὐτῷ ὅτι ἀκούω σε πλεῖν ἐπὶ Καλλίστρατον. ἐγὼ οὖν τῶν φευγόντων οὐδένα ἄξω, οὐδὲ πλεύσομαι ἐπʼ αὐτόν· οἱ γὰρ νόμοι οὐκ ἐῶσιν ὑποδέχεσθαι τῶν φευγόντων οὐδένα, ἢ ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς κελεύουσιν ἐνέχεσθαι τὸν ὑποδεχόμενον τοὺς φεύγοντας. ἀποπλεύσομαι οὖν πάλιν ὡς τὸν στρατηγὸν εἰς Θάσον.
50. So, when the sailors came on board, I ordered the pilot to sail back to Thasos. Callippus protested, and bade him sail for Macedonia in accordance with the general’s commands; but Posidippus, the pilot, answered him that I was trierarch of the ship, and the one responsible, and that he got his pay from me; he would sail, therefore, whither I bade him sail—to Thasos, to the general.
50. καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐνέβησαν οἱ ναῦται, λέγω τῷ κυβερνήτῃ ἀποπλεῖν εἰς τὴν Θάσον. ἀντιλέγοντος δὲ τοῦ Καλλίππου καὶ κελεύοντος πλεῖν εἰς τὴν Μακεδονίαν, οἷ προσέταξεν ὁ στρατηγός, ἀποκρίνεται αὐτῷ Ποσείδιππος ὁ κυβερνήτης ὅτι τριήραρχός τε ἐγὼ τῆς νεὼς εἴην καὶ ὑπεύθυνος, καὶ τὸν μισθὸν παρʼ ἐμοῦ λαμβάνοι· πλεύσοιτο οὖν οἷ ἐγὼ κελεύω, εἰς Θάσον ὡς τὸν στρατηγόν.
51. When we reached Thasos the next day, Timomachus sent for me to come to the place where he lodged outside the wall. I was afraid that he would put me under arrest on false charges preferred by Callippus, so did not obey the summons in person, but told the officer that, if he had anything to say to me, I should be in the market-place; and I sent my servant with him, in order that, if the general had any orders to give he might hear and report to me.
51. ἀφικομένων δʼ ἡμῶν τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ εἰς τὴν Θάσον, μεταπέμπεταί με ὁ Τιμόμαχος, οὗ κατήγετο ἔξω τείχους. φοβούμενος δʼ ἐγὼ μὴ δεθείην διαβληθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ Καλλίππου, αὐτὸς μὲν οὐχ ὑπακούω, ἀλλὰ λέγω τῷ ὑπηρέτῃ ὅτι εἴ τι βούλοιτό μοι διαλέγεσθαι, ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ ἔσομαι, τὸν δὲ παῖδα συμπέμπω αὐτῷ, ἵνʼ εἴ τί μοι προστάττοι, ἀκούσας ἀπαγγείλαι μοι.
52. It was for this reason, which I have stated to you, men of the jury, that Timomachus did not force the defendant to take over the ship, and besides, he wanted the use of the ship for himself, as she was the best sailer. As for the trireme of Thrasylochus of Anagyrus, on board which he was himself sailing, he induced Thrasylochus to let his trierarchy to Callippus, that Callippus, being in full control of the ship, might carry Callistratus about, as he pleased. Timomachus himself came on board my ship, and sailed around here and there until he reached the Hellespont.
52. διὰ μὲν ταύτας τὰς αἰτίας, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ἃς εἴρηκα πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ὁ Τιμόμαχος οὐκ ἠνάγκαζε παραλαμβάνειν τοῦτον τὴν ναῦν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ βουλόμενος αὐτὸς χρῆσθαι τῇ νηὶ ὡς ἄριστα πλεούσῃ. τὴν μὲν γὰρ [τοῦ] Θρασυλόχου τοῦ Ἀναγυρασίου τριήρη, ἐφʼ ἧς αὐτὸς ἔπλει, τὸν Θρασύλοχον τῷ Καλλίππῳ μισθῶσαι τὴν τριηραρχίαν ἔπεισεν, ἵνʼ αὐτοκράτωρ ὢν ὁ Κάλλιππος τῆς νεὼς ἄγοι τὸν Καλλίστρατον· αὐτὸς δʼ ἀναβὰς ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ναῦν περιέπλει πανταχοῖ, ἕως ἀφίκετο εἰς Ἑλλήσποντον.
53. When he had no longer need of ships of war, he put on board my vessel Eucinus of Pallenê, as commander, and, enjoining upon him to give the sailors money every day, ordered me to sail for home. When, then, on our homeward voyage we were in Tenedos, and Lucinus, despite the orders given him by Timomachus, was furnishing no money for sustenance to the sailors (he said he had none, but should get some from Mytilenê), and the men had nothing with which to buy provisions, and without food could not have continued rowing, again taking some of our citizens as witnesses I approached the defendant in Tenedos, and bade him take over the ship as my successor, and to reimburse me for the expenses I had incurred while I serving as trierarch in his stead beyond my term. I did this in order that he might not make use of the pretext, in his defence before you, that I refused to hand over the ship to him because I was ambitious to sail home in a fast-sailing ship and show off to you my lavish expenditure.
53. ἐπειδὴ δʼ οὐκέτι χρεία ἦν αὐτῷ τριήρων, ἐμβιβάσας μοι Λυκῖνον τὸν Παλληνέα ἄρχοντα εἰς τὴν ναῦν, καὶ προστάξας αὐτῷ καθʼ ἡμέραν ἀργύριον διδόναι τοῖς ναύταις, ἀποπλεῖν οἴκαδέ με ἐκέλευεν. ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν καταπλέοντες οἴκαδε ἦμεν ἐν Τενέδῳ, καὶ οὔτε ὁ Λυκῖνος, ᾧ προσέταξεν ὁ Τιμόμαχος, ἐδίδου τοῖς ναύταις σιτηρέσιον (οὐ γὰρ ἔφη ἔχειν, ἀλλʼ ἐκ Μυτιλήνης λήψεσθαι), οἵ τε στρατιῶται εἶχον οὐδὲν ὅτου ἂν ἐπεσιτίσαντο, ἄσιτοι δὲ οὐκ ἂν ἐδύναντο ἐλαύνειν, πάλιν παραλαβὼν ἐγὼ μάρτυρας τῶν πολιτῶν, προσελθὼν Πολυκλεῖ τουτῳὶ ἐν Τενέδῳ, ἐκέλευον αὐτὸν τήν τε ναῦν παραλαμβάνειν ὡς διάδοχον ὄντα, καὶ τὸ ἐπιτριηράρχημα ἀποδιδόναι τοῦ χρόνου οὗ ἐπανήλωσα ὑπὲρ τούτου ἐπιτριηραρχῶν, ἵνα μὴ πρόφασις αὐτῷ γένοιτο ἀπολογίας πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ὡς ἐγὼ διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἤθελον αὐτῷ παραδοῦναι τὴν ναῦν φιλοτιμούμενος, ἵνα καταπλεύσαιμι οἴκαδε ἐπὶ νεὼς εὖ πλεούσης καὶ ἐνδειξαίμην ὑμῖν τὰ ἀναλώματα.
55. Since he refused to take over the ship, and the sailors were asking for money that they might buy supplies, I came up to him again, having witnesses with me, and asked whether he had come out with money with the purpose of taking over the ship from me, or not. On his replying that he had brought money with him, I urged him to lend me some on the security of the ship’s equipment, that I might distribute it among the sailors and bring the ship home, seeing that he refused to take over the ship, although he was my successor.
55. οὐκ ἐθέλοντος δʼ αὐτοῦ παραλαμβάνειν, τῶν δὲ ναυτῶν ἀργύριον αἰτούντων ἵνα ἀγοράσωνται τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, πάλιν αὐτῷ προσέρχομαι μάρτυρας ἔχων, καὶ ἠρώτων αὐτὸν εἰ ἀναπλεύσειεν ἔχων ἀργύριον ὡς διαδεξόμενός μοι τὴν ναῦν, ἢ οὔ. ἀποκριναμένου δʼ αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἔχων ἀργύριον ἥκοι, ἐκέλευον αὐτόν μοι δανεῖσαι ὑποθέμενον τὰ σκεύη τῆς νεώς, ἵνʼ ἔχοιμι διαδοῦναι τοῖς ναύταις καὶ κατακομίσαι τὴν ναῦν, ἐπειδὴ οὐ βούλεται παραλαβεῖν διάδοχος ὤν.
56. To this request of mine he replied that he would not lend me a farthing. Accordingly I borrowed from Cleanax and Eperatus, friends of my father in Tenedos, and gave the sailors their provision-money; for on account of my being Pasion’s son, and the fact that he was connected by ties of hospitality with many, and was trusted throughout the Greek world, I had no difficulty in borrowing money wherever I needed it. To prove that the statements I am making to you are true, I shall produce for you the depositions establishing these facts. The Depositions The clerk has read the depositions of all those whom I was able to produce, who were present in person, to prove that I again and again offered to give over the ship to Polycles, and that he refused to take it.
56. δεομένου δέ μου ταῦτα, ἀπεκρίνατό μοι ὅτι οὐδʼ ἀκαρῆ δανείσοι. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν παρὰ ξένων Τενεδίων τοῦ πατρός, Κλεάνακτος καὶ Ἐπηράτου, ἐδανεισάμην καὶ ἔδωκα τοῖς ναύταις τὸ σιτηρέσιον· διὰ γὰρ τὸ Πασίωνος εἶναι καὶ ἐκεῖνον ἐπεξενῶσθαι πολλοῖς καὶ πιστευθῆναι ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι οὐκ ἠπόρουν, ὅπου δεηθείην, δανείσασθαι. ὡς οὖν ταῦτα ἀληθῆ πρὸς ὑμᾶς λέγω, τούτων ὑμῖν τὰς μαρτυρίας παρέξομαι. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.
57. More than that, I have shown by convincing circumstantial evidence, why it was that he refused to take over the ship. I desire now to have read to you the law also regarding those appointed to succeed others in the trierarchy, that you may know how severe the penalties are when a man fails to take over a ship from his predecessor within the appointed time, and how Polycles scoffed, not at me only, but at you and at the laws.
57. ὅσων μὲν τοίνυν ὑμῖν ἐδυνάμην τὰς μαρτυρίας παρασχέσθαι τῶν παραγενομένων, ὡς παρεδίδουν τὴν ναῦν Πολυκλεῖ πολλάκις, οὗτος δὲ οὐκ ἤθελεν παραλαβεῖν, ἀνέγνωκεν ὑμῖν· ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἐκ τεκμηρίων ἱκανῶν δεδήλωκα ὑμῖν, διʼ ὅ τι οὐκ ἤθελεν παραλαβεῖν τὴν ναῦν. βούλομαι δʼ ὑμῖν καὶ τὸν νόμον ἀναγνωσθῆναι τὸν περὶ τῶν διαδόχων, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε ἡλίκων τῶν ἐπιτιμίων ὄντων, ἐάν τις μὴ διαδέξηται τὴν ναῦν ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τῷ εἰρημένῳ, κατεφρόνησεν οὐκ ἐμοῦ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν νόμων.
58. So far as he is concerned, all measures undertaken by the state and her allies have failed; for he neither joined his ship, as the law commands, nor, when he did come, was he willing to take over the ship from his predecessor; whereas I served for my own term and that of my associate in the trierarchy, and when my term of service had expired and I was ordered by the general to sail to Hieron, I convoyed the grain for our people, that they might buy in a plentiful market, and that, so far as depended on me, there should be no lack; and I performed for the general every other service which he desired either of myself or of my trireme, not only spending my property, but risking my life as well through always making the voyage in person, although my domestic affairs were in such a condition at that time that you would pity me, if you heard them.
58. καὶ διὰ μὲν τοῦτον πάντα τῇ πόλει ἄπρακτα γέγονεν καὶ τοῖς συμμάχοις· οὔτε γὰρ ἀφίκετο ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν κατὰ τὸν νόμον, οὔτʼ ἐπειδὴ ἦλθεν ἠθέλησε διαδέξασθαι· ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ ἐμαυτοῦ ὑμῖν χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ συντριηράρχου ἐλῃτούργησα, καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐξῆλθέ μοι ὁ χρόνος τῆς τριηραρχίας, προστάττοντός μοι τοῦ στρατηγοῦ πλεῖν ἐφʼ Ἱερὸν παρέπεμψα τῷ δήμῳ τὸν σῖτον, ἵνα ἔχητε ἄφθονον ὠνεῖσθαι καὶ μηδὲν ὑμῖν ⟨τὸ⟩ κατʼ ἐμὲ ἐλλείπηται, καὶ ἄλλα ὅσα ἢ ἐμοὶ ἢ τῇ τριήρει ἐβουλήθη ὁ στρατηγὸς χρῆσθαι, παρέσχον αὐτῷ, οὐ μόνον τὴν οὐσίαν ἀναλίσκων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ σώματι κινδυνεύων συνεπιπλέων, τῶν οἰκείων μοι πραγμάτων τοιούτων συμβεβηκότων ἐν τῷ τότε καιρῷ, ὥστε ὑμᾶς ἂν ἀκούσαντας ἐλεῆσαι.
60. My mother lay sick, and was at the point of death while I was abroad, so that she was unable any longer to help in the depletion of my resources save to a slight extent. I had been but six days at home, when, after she had seen and greeted me, she breathed her last, being no longer mistress of her property, so as to give me I as much as she wished. She had often sent for me before this, begging me to come to her by myself if I could not come in my ship.
60. ἡ μέν γε μήτηρ ἔκαμνε καὶ ἐπιθάνατος ἦν ἐμοῦ ἀποδημοῦντος, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι [ἂν] ἔτι αὐτὴν βοηθῆσαι τοῖς ἐμοῖς πράγμασιν ἀνηλωμένοις ἀλλʼ ἢ βραχέα. ἑκταῖος γὰρ ἥκων ἐτύγχανον, καὶ ἐκείνη ἰδοῦσά με καὶ προσειποῦσα τὴν ψυχὴν ἀφῆκεν, οὐκέτι τῶν ὄντων κυρία οὖσα ὥστε δοῦναι ὅσα ἐβούλετό μοι. πολλάκις δὲ πρότερον μετεπέμπετό με, ἀφικέσθαι δεομένη αὐτόν, εἰ μὴ τῇ τριήρει οἷόν τε εἴη.
61. My wife, too, to whom I am deeply attached, was in poor health for a long time during my absence; my children were small and my estate was in debt; my land not only produced no crops, but that year, as you all know, the water even dried up in the wells, so that not a vegetable grew in the garden; and my creditors at the expiration of the year came to collect their interest, unless the principal was paid to them according to the contract.
61. ἡ δὲ γυνή, ἣν ἐγὼ περὶ πλείστου ποιοῦμαι, ἀσθενῶς διέκειτο πολὺν χρόνον ἐν τῇ ἐμῇ ἀποδημίᾳ· τὰ δὲ παιδία μικρά, ἡ δὲ οὐσία ὑπόχρεως· ἡ δὲ γῆ οὐχ ὅπως τινὰ καρπὸν ἤνεγκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ, ὡς πάντες ἴστε, ἐκ τῶν φρεάτων ἐπέλιπεν, ὥστε μηδὲ λάχανον γενέσθαι ἐν τῷ κήπῳ· οἱ δὲ δεδανεικότες ἧκον ἐπὶ τοὺς τόκους, ἐπειδὴ ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς ἐξῆλθεν, εἰ μή τις ἀποδοίη αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὰς συγγραφάς.
62. When I heard these facts from the lips of those who came and also through letters from my relatives, how do you think I must have felt, and how many tears must I have shed, while I reckoned up my present troubles and was longing to see my children and my wife, and my mother whom I had little hope of finding alive? For what is sweeter to a man than these, or why should one wish to live, if deprived of them?
62. ὧν ἀκούοντά με καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἀφικνουμένων λόγῳ, τὰ δὲ καὶ διʼ ἐπιστολῶν παρὰ τῶν οἰκείων, τίνα με οἴεσθε ψυχὴν ἔχειν ἢ πόσα δάκρυα ἀφιέναι, τὰ μὲν ἐκλογιζόμενον περὶ τῶν παρόντων, τὰ δὲ καὶ ποθοῦντα ἰδεῖν παιδία καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ μητέρα, ἣν ἐγὼ οὐ πολλὰς ἐλπίδας εἶχον ζῶσαν καταλήψεσθαι; ὧν τί ἥδιόν ἐστιν ἀνθρώπῳ, ἢ τοῦ ἕνεκʼ ἄν τις εὔξαιτο τούτων στερηθεὶς ζῆν.
63. Although the misfortunes which had befallen me were thus grievous, I did not count my private interests of so much importance as your interests, but felt that I ought to rise above the wasting of my fortune, the neglect of my household affairs, and the sickness of my wife and my mother, so that no one could accuse me of deserting my post or letting my ship be useless to the state.
63. τοιούτων τοίνυν μοι συμβεβηκότων τῶν πραγμάτων, οὐ περὶ πλείονος ἐποιησάμην τὰ ἐμαυτοῦ ἴδια ἢ τὰ ὑμέτερα, ἀλλʼ ἡγούμην δεῖν καὶ χρημάτων ἀναλισκομένων κρείττων εἶναι καὶ τῶν οἴκοι ἀμελουμένων καὶ γυναικὸς καὶ μητρὸς νοσούσης, ὥστε μήτε τὴν τάξιν αἰτιᾶσθαί μέ τινα λιπεῖν μήτε τὴν τριήρη τῇ πόλει ἄχρηστον γενέσθαι.
64. In return for all this I now implore you, that, as I showed myself obedient and useful in your service, so you will now take thought of me, and, remembering all that I have told you, the depositions which I have produced and the decrees, you will succor me when I am being wronged, will mete out punishment in your own interest, and will exact repayment of the funds expended in the defendant’s behalf. Or who will wish to be zealous on your service, when men see that you neither reward those who are honest and obedient, nor punish those who are dishonest and disobedient?
64. ἀνθʼ ὧν ἁπάντων νῦν ὑμῶν δέομαι, ὥσπερ ἐγὼ ὑμῖν εὔτακτον καὶ χρήσιμον ἐμαυτὸν παρέσχον, οὕτω καὶ ὑμᾶς νυνὶ περὶ ἐμοῦ πρόνοιαν ποιησαμένους, καὶ ἀναμνησθέντας ἁπάντων ὧν τε διηγησάμην πρὸς ὑμᾶς, τῶν τε μαρτυριῶν ὧν παρεσχόμην καὶ τῶν ψηφισμάτων, βοηθῆσαι μὲν ἐμοὶ ἀδικουμένῳ, τιμωρήσασθαι δʼ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ⟨αὐτῶν⟩, εἰσπρᾶξαι δὲ τὰ ὑπὲρ τούτου ἀνηλωμένα. ἢ τίς ἐθελήσει φιλοτιμεῖσθαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ὅταν ὁρῶσι μήτε τοῖς χρηστοῖς καὶ εὐτάκτοις χάριν οὖσαν, μήτε τοῖς πονηροῖς καὶ ἀκοσμοῦσιν τιμωρίαν παρʼ ὑμῶν.
65. The clerk shall read you the law and an account of my expenses in detail for the period during which I served as trierarch beyond my term on the defendant’s behalf, and the sums which the several deserters took with them when they ran away from the ship, and where they went, in order that you may be assured that neither now nor at any time before have I made false statements to you. I count it my duty to serve you in a manner above reproach for the period prescribed by law, and as regards those who scorn you and the laws, and will not obey the laws, to convict them and get them punished in your courts.
65. ἀναγνώσεται δὲ καὶ τὸν νόμον ὑμῖν καὶ τὰ ἀναλώματα τοῦ χρόνου οὗ ἐπετριηράρχησα ὑπὲρ τούτου, καθʼ ἕκαστον, καὶ τοὺς λιπόνεως, ὅσον ἕκαστος ἔχων ἀργύριον ἀπέδρα καὶ ὅπου, ἵνα εἰδῆτε ὅτι οὔτε νῦν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ψεῦδος οὐδὲν λέγω οὔτε ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν χρόνῳ, ἡγοῦμαί τε δεῖν τὸν μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν νόμων χρόνον ὡρισμένον ἀμέμπτως ὑμῖν λῃτουργεῖν, τοὺς δὲ καταφρονοῦντας καὶ ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν νόμων καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντας πείθεσθαι τοῖς νόμοις ἐξελέγξας ἀδικοῦντας ἐν ὑμῖν τιμωρήσασθαι.
66. Be assured that it will be no more in my interest than in your own that you will punish Polycles, nor will you be showing concern merely for those who have served as trierarchs in the past; no, you will be taking thought also for those who are to serve in the future, so that those who perform public services may not be discouraged, and those who are designated as their successors may not show contempt toward the laws, but may go to their ships when they are appointed. These matters you should bear in mind, and reach a fair and just decision regarding all the points at issue.
66. εὖ δʼ ἴστε ὅτι οὐ περὶ τῶν ἐμῶν ἰδίων μᾶλλον τιμωρήσεσθε Πολυκλέα ἢ οὐχ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν, οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν παρεληλυθότων τριηράρχων ἐπιμέλειαν ποιήσεσθε μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῶν μελλόντων πρόνοιαν, ὥστε μήτε τοὺς λῃτουργοῦντας ἀθυμεῖν, μήτε τοὺς διαδόχους καταφρονεῖν τῶν νόμων, ἀλλʼ ἀπιέναι ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς, ὅταν κατασταθῶσιν. ἃ προσήκει ὑμᾶς ἐνθυμηθέντας ὀρθῶς καὶ δικαίως διαγνῶναι περὶ ἁπάντων.
67. I should gladly ask you, men of the jury, what opinion you would have had of me, if, when my term of service had expired and the defendant had not come to take over the ship, I had refused to serve longer when the general so ordered, but had sailed away. Would you not have been indignant and have thought that I was wronging you? If, then, you would have been indignant in that case, because I refused to serve beyond my term, should you not now exact from the defendant the money expended by me on his behalf, seeing that he did not take over the ship?
67. ἡδέως δʼ ἂν ὑμῶν πυθοίμην, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τίνʼ ἄν ποτε γνώμην περὶ ἐμοῦ εἴχετε, εἰ τοῦ τε χρόνου ἐξήκοντος καὶ τούτου μὴ ἥκοντος ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν μὴ ἐπετριηράρχησα κελεύοντος τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, ἀλλὰ πλέων ᾠχόμην. ἆρʼ οὐκ ἂν ὠργίζεσθέ μοι καὶ ἡγεῖσθε ἂν ἀδικεῖν; εἰ τοίνυν ἂν ἐμοὶ τότε ὠργίζεσθε, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπετριηράρχησα, πῶς οὐχὶ νῦν προσήκει ὑμᾶς τοῦτον εἰσπρᾶξαί μοι τὰ ἀναλώματα, ἃ ἐγὼ ὑπὲρ τούτου ἀνήλωσα, τὸν οὐ διαδεξάμενον τὴν ναῦν.
68. To prove that it is not in my case only that he failed to take over his ship, but that on a former occasion also, when he was the associate of Euripides in the trierarchy and there was an agreement between them that each should sail for six months, when Euripides had sailed and the term had expired, Polycles did not take over the ship from him,—to prove this, I say, the clerk shall read the deposition. The Deposition.
68. ὅτι δʼ οὐκ ἐμοὶ μόνῳ οὐ διεδέξατο τὴν ναῦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρότερον Εὐριπίδῃ συντριήραρχος ὢν καὶ συνθηκῶν οὐσῶν αὐτοῖς τοὺς ἓξ μῆνας ἑκάτερον πλεῖν, ἐπειδὴ Εὐριπίδης ἐξέπλευσεν καὶ ὁ χρόνος ἐξῆκεν, οὐ διεδέξατο τὴν ναῦν αὐτῷ, ἀναγνώσεται τὴν μαρτυρίαν. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.