--- title: "Against Philocles · Κατὰ Φιλοκλέους" author: "Dinarchus" translator: "J. O. Burtt" languages: [grc, en] shelf: "Classical Greek" section: 1 of 1 url: https://scriptura.si/works/dinarchus-against-philocles/1/ cite: "Dinarchus, tr. J. O. Burtt, Against Philocles · Κατὰ Φιλοκλέους, section 1. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/dinarchus-against-philocles/1/" --- # Against Philocles · Κατὰ Φιλοκλέους *Dinarchus, tr. J. O. Burtt* A general accused of letting Harpalus into the Piraeus. > Greek: ed. J. O. Burtt, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0029.tlg006, CC BY-SA 4.0). > English: J. O. Burtt, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0029.tlg006.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included. > Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence. ## 1. Sections 1–22 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/dinarchus-against-philocles/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/dinarchus-against-philocles/1/#p-N [¶0] 1. What in Heaven's name are we to say about such men as this? How will you deal with the wickedness of Philocles, who has been convicted by the Areopagus not once only but three times, as you all know, and as you were recently informed in the Assembly? He has lied before all the Athenians and the surrounding crowd, saying that he would prevent Harpalus from putting into the Piraeus, when he had been appointed by you as general in command of Munichia and the dockyards, and he dared to take bribes against you all, against your country and your wives and children; he has broken the oath which he swore between the statue of Athena and the table; and he proposed a decree against himself imposing the death penalty on him if he had accepted any of the money which Harpalus brought into the country. > Greek: 1. τί χρὴ λέγειν πρὸς τῶν θεῶν περὶ τοιούτων ἀνθρώπων, ἢ πῶς χρήσεσθε τῇ τούτου πονηρίᾳ; ὃς οὐχ ἅπαξ ἀλλὰ τρὶς ἐξεληλεγμένος ὑπὸ τῆς ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλῆς, ὡς ὑμεῖς ἅπαντες ἴστε καὶ νῦν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ ἠκούετε, καὶ ἐψευσμένος ἁπάντων Ἀθηναίων ἐναντίον καὶ τῶν περιεστηκότων, φάσκων κωλύσειν Ἅρπαλον εἰς τὸν Πειραιᾶ καταπλεῦσαι, στρατηγὸς ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν Μουνιχίαν καὶ τὰ νεώρια κεχειροτονημένος, καὶ δῶρα τολμήσας λαβεῖν κατὰ πάντων ὑμῶν καὶ τῆς χώρας καὶ παίδων καὶ γυναικῶν, καὶ ἐπιωρκηκὼς ὃν ὤμοσεν ὅρκον μεταξὺ τοῦ ἕδους καὶ τῆς τραπέζης, καὶ γράψας καθʼ ἑαυτοῦ ψήφισμα, καὶ θανάτου τιμησάμενος ἐὰν εἰλήφῃ τι τῶν χρημάτων ὧν Ἅρπαλος εἰς τὴν χώραν ἐκόμισεν, [¶1] 3. Yet despite this he dared to come and show himself to you when you knew that he had been proved answerable on all these counts. It is not justice on which he is relying, Athenians; for what has he to do with justice? No, it is audacity and effrontery, in virtue of which he has seen fit to take bribes in the past, to the utter disregard of yourselves and the course of justice in the city, and has now come forward to explain that he is guilty of none of these things. So complete has been his contempt for your apathy. > Greek: 3. ὅμως ἐτόλμησεν εἰς τοὺς εἰδότας ὑμᾶς ἐξεληλεγμένον ἑαυτὸν ἅπασι τούτοις ἔνοχον γεγενημένον ἐλθεῖν καὶ δεῖξαι ἑαυτόν, οὐ τῷ δικαίῳ πιστεύων, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, — τί γὰρ τούτῳ δικαιοσύνης μέτεστιν; — ἀλλὰ τῇ τόλμῃ καὶ τῇ ἀναιδείᾳ, ᾗ χρώμενος πρότερον μὲν ἠξίωσε καταφρονήσας ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει δικαίων τὰ χρήματα λαβεῖν, νυνὶ δὲ ἀπολογησόμενος ἥκει ὡς οὐδὲν τούτων διαπέπρακται· τοσοῦτον τῆς ὑμετέρας ῥᾳθυμίας καταπεφρόνηκε. [¶2] 4. The law of the city, which binds us all, lays it down that if anyone breaks an agreement made in the presence of one of the citizens he shall be liable as an offender. Shall this man, who has deceived every Athenian, betrayed the trust which he did not deserve to receive from you, and so done everything in his power to ruin all the city's institutions, claim that he is coming to make his defence against the charge laid against him? > Greek: 4. καὶ ὁ μὲν κοινὸς τῆς πόλεως νόμος, ἐάν τις ⟨ἑνὸς⟩ ἐναντίον τῶν πολιτῶν ὁμολογήσας τι παραβῇ τοῦτον ἔνοχον εἶναι κελεύει τῷ ἀδικεῖν· ὁ δὲ πάντας Ἀθηναίους ἐξηπατηκώς, καὶ προδοὺς τὴν πίστιν ἣν παρʼ ὑμῶν οὐκ ἄξιος ὢν ἔλαβε, καὶ τὸ καθʼ αὑτὸν μέρος ἅπαντʼ ἀνατετροφὼς τὰ ἐν τῇ πόλει, οὗτος ἐπὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν ἥκειν φήσει τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς αἰτίας τῆς εἰς αὑτὸν γεγενημένης; [¶3] 5. It is my personal opinion, Athenians, if I am to speak the truth,—as I must,—that there is no question whether the reports bearing on Philocles are true or false; you have simply to consider now the punishment mentioned in the decree and to decide whether you ought to fine a man who has done the city so much harm or sentence him to death,—as he proposed in the decree against himself,—confiscating the property which he has amassed from perquisites like this. > Greek: 5. ἐγὼ δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες, εἰ δεῖ τἀληθῆ λέγειν — δεῖ δέ —, οὐ τὰς ἀποφάσεις οἶμαι νῦν κρίνεσθαι, πότερον ἀληθεῖς εἰσιν ἢ ψευδεῖς αἱ κατὰ Φιλοκλέους γεγενημέναι, ἀλλὰ περὶ μόνης τῆς τιμωρίας ὑμᾶς δεῖν τῆς ἐν τῷ ψηφίσματι γεγραμμένης δικάσαι νῦν, πότερα δεῖ χρημάτων τιμῆσαι τῷ τηλικαῦτα ἠδικηκότι τὴν πόλιν, ἢ θανάτῳ ζημιώσαντας, ὥσπερ οὗτος ἔγραψεν ἐν τῷ ψηφίσματι καθʼ αὑτοῦ, [ἢ] δημεῦσαι τὴν οὐσίαν τὴν ἐκ τοιούτων λημμάτων συνειλεγμένην. [¶4] 6. Do you think that this question of the gold is the first occasion when Philocles has shown his dishonesty and that he has never taken bribes against you before? You are wrong. He has been like this a long time, though you did not notice it; indeed you have been fortunate not to have met with his venality on more important occasions; for there is no greater menace than a man whose dishonesty passes unobserved. > Greek: 6. οἴεσθε τοῦτον νῦν πρῶτον ἐπὶ τούτων τῶν χρημάτων πονηρὸν γεγενῆσθαι, ἢ νῦν πρῶτον καθʼ ὑμῶν δῶρα εἰληφέναι; οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα, ἀλλὰ πάλαι τοιοῦτος ὢν ἐλάνθανεν ὑμᾶς, καὶ ηὐτυχήκαθʼ ὅτι οὐκ ἐν μείζοσι καιροῖς ἐπύθεσθε τὴν αἰσχροκέρδειαν αὐτοῦ· οὐ γάρ ἐστι χαλεπώτερον ἀνθρώπου τὴν αὑτοῦ πονηρίαν ἀγνοουμένην ἔχοντος. [¶5] 7. Athenians, will you not all unite in killing one who has plunged many of our citizens into such deep disgrace and guilt, who first opened the way for the gold that has been distributed, exposing the whole of Athens to blame? Or will you consent to hear this man, who has done so much to harm you, argue that the council of the Areopagus has falsified the reports and that, while he is just and upright and incorruptible, it has published all this in return for favors or bribes? > Greek: 7. οὐκ ἀποκτενεῖτε, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, πάντες ὁμοθυμαδὸν τὸν εἰς τοσαύτην αἰσχύνην καὶ ἀδικίαν πολλοὺς τῶν πολιτῶν ἐμβεβληκότα, τὸν ἀρχηγὸν γενόμενον τοῦ διαδεδομένου χρυσίου καὶ εἰς αἰτίαν καθιστάντα πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν; ἀλλʼ ὑπομενεῖτʼ ἀκούειν τοῦ τοσαῦτα διαπεπραγμένου καθʼ ὑμῶν, ὡς [ὅτι] τὸ συνέδριον τὸ ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ ψευδεῖς πεποίηται τὰς ἀποφάσεις, καὶ ὡς αὐτὸς μὲν δίκαιος καὶ χρηστὸς καὶ ἀδωροδόκητός ἐστιν, ἡ δʼ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ταῦτα πάντα προεῖται χάριτος ἢ λημμάτων ἕνεκα; [¶6] 8. Do you realize that, although in the case of other offences you must first consider critically and with deliberation, discovering the truth, and only then administer punishment to the offenders, nevertheless, in cases of obvious and unquestioned treason, you should give first place to anger and the vengeance that goes with it? > Greek: 8. ἆρʼ ἴσθʼ ὅτι ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἀδικημάτων σκεψαμένους ἀκριβῶς δεῖ μεθʼ ἡσυχίας καὶ τἀληθὲς ἐξετάσαντας, οὕτως ἐπιτιθέναι τοῖς ἠδικηκόσι τὴν τιμωρίαν, ἐπὶ δὲ ταῖς φανεραῖς καὶ παρὰ πάντων ὡμολογημέναις προδοσίαις πρώτην τετάχθαι τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ τὴν μετʼ αὐτῆς γιγνομένην τιμωρίαν; [¶7] 9. Do you think this man would refrain from selling any one of the things most vital in the city, when you, relying on his loyalty and honesty, had placed him in charge of it? Do you think that there are any triremes in the dockyards which he would not let go, or that he would trouble to keep anything safe, if there was a prospect of escaping detection and receiving double the amount of gold which he has now received? Nothing, gentlemen, is beyond a man of this type. > Greek: 9. τί γὰρ τοῦτον οὐκ ἂν οἴεσθε ἀποδόσθαι τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει σπουδαιοτάτων, ὅταν ὑμεῖς ὡς πιστὸν αὐτὸν καὶ δίκαιον φύλακα καταστήσητε; ποίας οὐκ ἂν προδοῦναι τριήρεις τῶν ἐν τοῖς νεωρίοις; ἢ τίνος ἂν φροντίσαι φυλακῆς, λήσειν ἐλπίσαντα καὶ λήψεσθαι διπλάσιον οὗ νῦν εἴληφε χρυσίου; οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐκ ἂν ὁ τοιοῦτος, ὦ ἄνδρες, ποιήσειεν. [¶8] 10. For if anyone values silver and gold more highly than his loyalty to you and has no more regard for an oath or for honor and right than he has for making money, then that man, in so far as he is able, will sell Munichia if he has a buyer; he will signal to the enemy and reveal your secrets, he will betray your army and your fleet. > Greek: 10. ὅστις γὰρ ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον περὶ πλείονος τῆς πρὸς ὑμᾶς πίστεως ἡγεῖται καὶ μήθʼ ὅρκου μήτʼ αἰσχύνης μήτε δικαίου πλείω λόγον ἢ τοῦ λαμβάνειν ποιεῖται, οὗτος ἀποδώσεται τὸ καθʼ αὑτὸν τὴν Μουνιχίαν, ἂν ἔχῃ τὸν ὠνησόμενον, οὗτος ἐξαγγελεῖ τοῖς πολεμίοις σύνθημα φήνας καθʼ ὑμῶν, οὗτος προδώσει τὴν πεζὴν καὶ ναυτικὴν δύναμιν. [¶9] 11. Therefore, Athenians, do not imagine that, in assessing the penalty, you are merely going to judge of the crimes which Philocles has actually committed; you will bear in mind those which he would have committed, had it been in his power. Thank the gods, now that you know the defendant's character, that you have suffered no more grievous harm at his hands, and punish him as your duty and his baseness demand. > Greek: 11. μὴ οὖν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, τὴν τίμησιν ὑπὲρ τῶν γεγενημένων μόνον ὑπὸ Φιλοκλέους ἀδικημάτων ἡγεῖσθε μέλλειν ποιεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν ἂν ἔπραξεν οὗτος κύριος γενόμενος. καὶ τοῖς μὲν θεοῖς ἔχετε χάριν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ παθεῖν τι μεῖζον ὑπὸ τούτου δεινόν, ἐγνωκότες τοῦτον οἷός ἐστιν· ἀξίως δʼ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τῆς τοῦ κρινομένου πονηρίας κολάσατε αὐτόν· [¶10] 12. This man, Athenians, has held a cavalry command, three or four times, over reputable men; he has been appointed a general by you more than ten times, unworthy though he was, and has enjoyed honor and aroused emulation because of his reputation for loyalty towards you. Yet he sold and betrayed the dignity of a command conferred by us, reducing himself to the level of Aristogiton and changing from a general into a hireling and a traitor. > Greek: 12. ὅς, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, τρὶς μὲν ἢ τετράκις ἱππαρχηκὼς ἀνδρῶν καλῶν κἀγαθῶν, πλεονάκις δʼ ἢ δεκάκις στρατηγὸς ὑφʼ ὑμῶν κεχειροτονημένος οὐκ ἄξιος ὤν, τιμώμενος καὶ ζηλούμενος διὰ τὴν πρὸς ὑμᾶς πίστιν ἀπέδοτο καὶ προέδωκε τὸ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἡγεμονίας ἀξίωμα, καὶ εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ κατέστησεν ἑαυτὸν Ἀριστογείτονι, καὶ μισθωτὸν καὶ προδότην ἀντὶ στρατηγοῦ ἐποίησεν. [¶11] 13. Is this a reason why you, the injured parties, should give way to feelings of consideration for such a person when he himself showed no consideration in treating you and your fellows as he did? Those who could justly claim your pity, Athenians, are not the like of him,—far from it,—they are those whom Philocles would have betrayed if he had had the chance of a good price; and among them are the promontory and harbors, and the dockyards which your ancestors built and left you. > Greek: 13. ἔπειθʼ ὑποστείλασθαί τι δεῖ πρὸς τὸν τοιοῦτον ὑμᾶς, καὶ αἰσχυνθῆναι τοὺς ἠδικημένους, ὃς οὐκ ᾐσχύνθη τοιαῦτα πράττων καθʼ ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων; οὐχ οἱ τοιοῦτοι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐλεοῖντʼ ἂν εἰκότως παρʼ ὑμῖν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι· πολλοῦ γε καὶ δεῖ· ἀλλʼ οἱ προδοθέντες ἂν ὑπὸ Φιλοκλέους, εἴ τινʼ οὗτος παρέλαβε καιρὸν χρημάτων πολλῶν· ἐν οἷς καὶ ἡ ἀκτὴ καὶ οἱ λιμένες εἰσὶ καὶ τὰ νεώρια, ἃ οἱ πρόγονοι κατασκευάσαντες ὑμῖν κατέλιπον. [¶12] 14. You must remember these, Athenians, and not make light of the reports published by the council. Treat this case as you treated those on which you have already passed judgement. For it is shameful to grow weary of punishing men who have proved traitors to the city, and shameful that any lawbreakers and reprobates should survive, when the gods have exposed them and surrendered them to you for punishment, having seen that the whole people had accused Philocles and handed him over first of all to meet with his deserts before you. > Greek: 14. ὧν ἀναμιμνησκομένους ὑμᾶς, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, δεῖ μὴ παρέργως ἔχειν πρὸς τὰς ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς γεγενημένας ἀποφάσεις, ἀλλʼ ἀκολούθως ταῖς πρότερον κεκριμέναις· αἰσχρὸν γὰρ ἀπειπεῖν τιμωρουμένους ἐστὶ τοὺς προδότας τῆς πόλεως γεγενημένους, καὶ ὑπολείπεσθαί τινας τῶν ἀδίκων καὶ πονηρῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅτε οἱ θεοὶ φανεροὺς ὑμῖν ποιήσαντες παρέδοσαν τιμωρήσασθαι, ἑορακότες τὸν δῆμον ἅπαντα κατήγορον τούτου γεγενημένον καὶ προκεχειρικότα πρῶτον τῶν ἄλλων ἐπὶ τὸ τὴν τιμωρίαν ἐν ὑμῖν δοῦναι. [¶13] 15. By Zeus the Savior, I am ashamed that you should need us to encourage you and goad you on before you proceed to punish the defendant now on trial. Are you not eyewitnesses of the crimes he has committed? The whole people considered that it was not safe or right to trust him with their children and so rejected him as Supervisor of the Ephebi. Will you, the guardians of democracy and law, spare a man who has behaved like this; you to whom the fortune of lot has entrusted the protection of the people by means of the judgement you will give? You are the supreme court of justice in the city. Will you acquit a man guilty of taking bribes and every other crime, who, as I said just now, is unique among criminals in that he has been reported not once merely but three times and might already have been rightly made liable three times to the death penalty by his own decree. > Greek: 15. ἀλλʼ ἔγωγε, νὴ τὸν Δία τὸν σωτῆρα, αἰσχύνομαι, εἰ προτραπέντας ὑμᾶς δεῖ καὶ παροξυνθέντας ὑφʼ ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ νῦν εἰσεληλυθότος τὴν κρίσιν τιμωρίαν ἐλθεῖν. [καὶ] οὐκ αὐτόπται ἐστὲ τῶν ὑπὸ τούτου γεγενημένων ἀδικημάτων; καὶ ὁ μὲν δῆμος ἅπας οὔτʼ ἀσφαλὲς οὔτε δίκαιον νομίζων εἶναι παρακαταθέσθαι τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ παῖδας ἀπεχειροτόνησεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ἐφήβων ἐπιμελείας, ὑμεῖς δʼ οἱ τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῶν νόμων φύλακες, οἷς ἡ τύχη καὶ ὁ κλῆρος … ὑπὲρ τοῦ δήμου δικάσοντας ἐπέτρεψεν, φείσεσθε τοῦ τοιαῦτα διαπεπραγμένου, καὶ τὸ πέρας ἔχοντες τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἁπάντων δικαίων ἀτιμώρητον ἀφήσετε τὸν δωροδόκον καὶ πάντων τῶν γεγενημένων κακῶν αἴτιον, ὅς, ὅπερ καὶ μικρῷ πρότερον εἶπον, μόνος τῶν πονηρῶν πάντων τρὶς οὐχ ἅπαξ ἀποπέφανται, καὶ τρὶς ἤδη δικαίως [ἂν] ἐζημιωμένος θανάτῳ κατὰ τὸ αὑτοῦ ψήφισμα. [¶14] 17. Then why will you wait, Athenians? What further crimes do you wish to hear of greater than those we have mentioned? Was it not you and your ancestors who made no allowance for Timotheus, though he had sailed round the Peloponnese and beaten the Spartans in the sea-fight at Corcyra, though his father was Conon who liberated Greece and he himself had taken Samos, Methone, Pydna, Potidaea, and twenty cities besides? You did not take this record into consideration at all, or allow such services to outweigh the case before you or the oaths which you swear before giving your verdict, but fined him a hundred talents, because Aristophon said he had been bribed by the Chians and Rhodians. Will you then acquit this abominable man, reported not by one individual but by the whole council of the Areopagus, after an investigation, to be holding bribes against you; who, though he has ample means and no male heirs and lacks nothing else that a normal man could need, did not withhold his hand from the bribes offered against his country or suppress his natural depravity, but destroyed entirely his reputation for loyalty towards you, by ranging himself with those whom he once professed to oppose and proving that his counterfeited honesty was sham? > Greek: 17. τί οὖν ἀναμενεῖτʼ, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι; καὶ ποῖα ἀδικήματα ζητεῖτε ἕτερα μείζω τῶν εἰρημένων ἀκοῦσαι; οὐχ ὑμεῖς ἐστε καὶ οἱ ὑμέτεροι πρόγονοι οἱ Τιμοθέῳ Πελοπόννησον περιπλεύσαντι καὶ τὴν ἐν Κερκύρᾳ ναυμαχίαν Λακεδαιμονίους νικήσαντι καὶ Κόνωνος υἱεῖ τοῦ τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἐλευθερώσαντος καὶ Σάμον λαβόντι καὶ Μεθώνην καὶ Πύδναν καὶ Ποτείδαιαν, καὶ πρὸς ταύταις ἑτέρας εἴκοσι πόλεις, οὐδὲν τούτων ὑπόλογον ποιησάμενοι; οὐδὲ τῆς τότε ἐνεστώσης κρίσεως καὶ τῶν ὅρκων οὓς ὀμωμοκότες φέρετε τὴν ψῆφον ἀντικαταλλαξάμενοι τὰς τηλικαύτας εὐεργεσίας, ἀλλʼ ἑκατὸν ταλάντων τιμήσαντες, ὅτι χρήματʼ αὐτὸν Ἀριστοφῶν ἔφη παρὰ Χίων εἰληφέναι καὶ Ῥοδίων; τὸν δὲ μιαρὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ προδότην, ὃν οὐχ εἷς ἀνὴρ ἀλλὰ πᾶσα ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ζητήσασα ἀποπέφαγκε χρήματʼ ἔχειν καθʼ ὑμῶν, ὃς οὐσίαν ἔχων πολλὴν καὶ παίδων ἀρρένων οὐκ ὄντων αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐδενὸς ἄλλου δεόμενος ὧν ⟨ἂν⟩ ἄνθρωπος μέτριος δεηθείη, οὐκ ἀπέσχετο χρημάτων διδομένων κατὰ τῆς πατρίδος, οὐδʼ ἀπεκρύψατο τὴν ἔμφυτον πονηρίαν, ἀλλʼ ἀνεῖλε πᾶσαν τὴν γεγενημένην αὑτῷ πρὸς ὑμᾶς πίστιν, καὶ οἷς πρότερον ἔφη διαφέρεσθαι, πρὸς τούτους ἔταξεν αὑτόν, καὶ ἐξήλεγξεν αὑτοῦ τὴν προσποίητον καλοκαγαθίαν, ὅτι ψευδὴς ἦν. [¶15] 19. Let every one of you bear these points in mind, Athenians, and remember the present circumstances, which call for good faith, not corruption. You must hate the wicked, wipe out such monsters from the city, and show the world that the mass of people have not been corrupted with a few orators and generals and are not cowed by their reputation; for they realize that with integrity and agreement among ourselves we shall easily triumph, by the grace of the gods, if anyone unjustly attacks us, but that with bribery and treason and the allied vices practiced by men like this no city could survive. > Greek: 19. ἃ χρὴ λογισαμένους ὑμᾶς πάντας, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ τῶν παρόντων καιρῶν ἀναμνησθέντας, οἳ πίστεως οὐ δωροδοκίας δέονται, μισεῖν τοὺς πονηρούς, ἀνελεῖν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως τὰ τοιαῦτα θηρία, καὶ δεῖξαι πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ὅτι οὐ συνδιέφθαρται τὸ τοῦ δήμου πλῆθος τῶν ῥητόρων καὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν τισιν, οὐδὲ δουλεύει ταῖς δόξαις, εἰδότας ὅτι μετὰ μὲν δικαιοσύνης καὶ τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὁμονοίας ῥᾳδίως ἀμυνούμεθα, θεῶν ἵλεων ὄντων, ἐάν τινες ἡμῖν ἀδίκως ἐπιτιθῶνται, μετὰ δὲ δωροδοκίας καὶ προδοσίας καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων τούτοις κακῶν, ἃ τοῖς τοιούτοις ἀνθρώποις πρόσεστιν, οὐδεμίʼ ἂν πόλις σωθείη. [¶16] 20. Therefore, Athenians, do not admit any request or plea for pity; do not condone the guilt which you have seen fastened upon the defendants in the plain light of facts, or invalidate the council's report; but one and all assist your country and the laws, since both are now on trial against this man's iniquity. > Greek: 20. μηδεμίαν οὖν δέησιν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, μηδʼ ἔλεον εἰς ὑμᾶς λαμβάνοντες αὐτούς, μηδὲ τὴν ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀποδεδειγμένην ὑμῖν κατὰ τῶν κρινομένων ἀδικίαν … ἄκυρον ποιήσαντες, βοηθήσατε κοινῇ τῇ πατρίδι καὶ τοῖς νόμοις· ταῦτα γὰρ ἀμφότερα διαδικάζεται νῦν πρὸς τὴν τούτου πονηρίαν. [¶17] 21. The whole country will be affected by the verdict you are about to give: the shrines which have been erected in it, the agelong traditions, and the constitution which your ancestors have handed down to you. It is not a question of Philocles alone; for he has condemned himself to death long ago. In addressing these entreaties to you I am urging a far juster plea than the men who have committed these shameful acts: I am asking you not to desert the things for which your ancestors faced many dangers, not to turn the city's honor into utter shame, and not to let personal regard for the defendants override your respect for the laws, the people's decrees, and the reports of the council. > Greek: 21. ὑπὲρ πάσης, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, τῆς χώρας νῦν μέλλετε φέρειν τὴν ψῆφον, καὶ τῶν ἐν ταύτῃ κατεσκευασμένων ἱερῶν καὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων νομίμων καὶ τῆς παραδεδομένης ὑπὸ τῶν προγόνων ὑμῖν πολιτείας, οὐχ ὑπὲρ Φιλοκλέους μόνον· οὗτος μὲν γὰρ αὑτοῦ πάλαι θάνατον κατέγνωκε. ταῦθʼ ὑμᾶς ἱκετεύων ἐγὼ δικαιοτέραν πολὺ δέησιν δέομαι τούτων τῶν τοιαῦτα πεπραχότων, μὴ ἐγκαταλιπεῖν ὑπὲρ ὧν οἱ πρόγονοι πολλοὺς ὑπέμειναν κινδύνους, μηδʼ εἰς ἀδοξίαν αἰσχρὰν ἀγαγεῖν τὸ τῆς πόλεως ἀξίωμα, μηδὲ ἀντικαταλλάξασθαι τὴν πρὸς τούτους χάριν τῶν νόμων καὶ τῶν τοῦ δήμου ⟨ψηφισμάτων⟩ καὶ τῶν τῆς βουλῆς ἀποφάσεων. [¶18] 22. >For let me make it quite clear to you, Athenians, quite clear, that you are being applauded universally in consequence of the inquiries held upon this money, and that men who have been convicted of taking bribes against their own country are regarded as wicked and injurious, haters of democracy, professing, as they do, to be your friends and to work for the city's interests, and having made their reputation thanks to you. > Greek: 22. ἀκριβῶς γὰρ ἴστε, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀκριβῶς, ὅτι ὑμεῖς μὲν παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐπαινεῖσθε ταῖς γεγενημέναις ζητήσεσιν ὑπὲρ τούτων τῶν χρημάτων, οἱ δʼ ἐξεληλεγμένοι κατὰ τῆς ἑαυτῶν πατρίδος δῶρα εἰληφότες πονηροὶ καὶ ἄδικοι καὶ μισόδημοι νομίζονται εἶναι, φιλεῖν ὑμᾶς φάσκοντες καὶ πράττειν ὑπὲρ τῶν τῆς πόλεως ἀγαθῶν, καὶ διʼ ὑμᾶς ἔνδοξοι γεγενημένοι.