53. And indeed, sir, had you taken their advice and consented to sail away with your friends, neither willingly nor unwillingly would you have taken the lives of so many Athenians. But the fact is that, seduced by certain persons who then made it worth your while, you had only to mention the names of the generals and commanders, and you could count on obtaining a handsome reward from them. So I see no reason there for your receiving any indulgence from us, since those men received none either from you, when you took their lives.
53. καίτοι εἰ ἐκείνοις ἐπίθου καὶ ἠθέλησας ἐκπλεῦσαι μετʼ ἐκείνων, οὔτʼ ἂν ἑκὼν οὔτε ἄκων τοσούτους Ἀθηναίων ἀπέκτεινας· νῦν δὲ πεισθεὶς ὑφʼ ὧν τότε ἐπείσθης, εἰ τῶν στρατηγῶν καὶ τῶν ταξιάρχων τὰ ὀνόματα μόνον εἴποις, μέγα τι ᾤου παρʼ αὐτῶν διαπράξεσθαι. οὔκουν τούτου ἕνεκα δεῖ σε παρʼ ἡμῶν συγγνώμης τινὸς τυχεῖν, ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ ἐκεῖνοι παρὰ σοῦ οὐδεμιᾶς ἔτυχον, οὓς σὺ ἀπέκτεινας.
54. And Hippias of Thasos, and Xenophon of Curium, who were summoned by the Council on the same charge as this man, were put to death,—the one, Xenophon, after suffering on the rack, the other, Hippias, in the manner …; because in the eyes of the Thirty they did not deserve to be saved,—they had not destroyed one Athenian! But Agoratus was let off, because in their eyes he had done what was most agreeable to them.
54. καὶ Ἱππίας μὲν ὁ Θάσιος καὶ Ξενοφῶν ὁ Κουριεύς, οἳ ἐπὶ τῇ αὐτῇ αἰτία τούτῳ ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς μετεπέμφθησαν, οὗτοι μὲν ἀπέθανον, ὁ μὲν στρεβλωθείς, Ξενοφῶν, ὁ δὲ Ἱππίας οὕτω …, διότι οὐκ ἄξιοι ἐδόκουν τοῖς τριάκοντα σωτηρίας εἶναι (οὐδένα γὰρ Ἀθηναίων ἀπώλλυσαν)· Ἀγόρατος δὲ ἀφείθη, διότι ἐδόκει ἐκείνοις τὰ ἥδιστα πεποιηκέναι.
55. I am told that he attributes these depositions in part to Menestratus. But the affair of Menestratus was like this: Menestratus was informed against by Agoratus, and was arrested and put in prison. Hagnodorus of Amphitrope, a fellow townsman of Menestratus, was a kinsman of Critias, one of the Thirty. Well, when the Assembly was being held in the theater at Munichia, this man, with the double aim of saving the life of Menestratus and of causing, by means of depositions, the destruction of as many people as possible, brought him before the people, when they contrived to give him impunity under the following decree.
55. ἀκούω δʼ αὐτὸν καὶ εἰς Μενέστρατον ἀναφέρειν τι περὶ τῶν ἀπογραφῶν τούτων. τὸ δὲ τοῦ Μενεστράτου πρᾶγμα τοιοῦτον ἐγένετο. ὁ Μενέστρατος οὗτος ἀπεγράφη ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀγοράτου καὶ συλληφθεὶς ἐδέδετο· Ἁγνόδωρος δʼ ἦν Ἀμφιτροπαιεύς, δημότης τοῦ Μενεστράτου, Κριτίου κηδεστὴς τοῦ τῶν τριάκοντα. οὗτος οὖν, ὅτε ἡ ἐκκλησία Μουνιχίασιν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ ἐγίγνετο, ἅμα μὲν βουλόμενος τὸν Μενέστρατον σωθῆναι, ἅμα δὲ ὡς πλείστους ἀπογραφέντας ἀπολέσθαι, παράγει αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν δῆμον, καὶ εὑρίσκονται αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸ ψήφισμα τουτὶ ἄδειαν.
56. Decree As soon as this decree had been passed, Menestratus turned informer, and added some more names of citizens to those already deposed. The Thirty, of course, let him off as they did Agoratus here, accepting his report as true: but you long afterwards had him before you in court as an actual murderer, and justly condemned him to death; you handed him over to the executioner, and he suffered death on the plank.
56. Ψήφισμα ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ψήφισμα ἐγένετο, μηνύει ὁ Μενέστρατος καὶ προσαπογράφει ἑτέρους τῶν πολιτῶν. τοῦτον μέντοι οἱ μὲν τριάκοντα ἀφεῖσαν ὥσπερ Ἀγόρατον τουτονί, δόξαντα τἀληθῆ εἰσαγγεῖλαι, ὑμεῖς δὲ πολλῷ χρόνω ὕστερον λαβόντες ἐν δικαστηρίῳ ὡς ἀνδροφόνον ὄντα, θάνατον δικαίως καταψηφισάμενοι τῷ δημίῳ παρέδοτε καὶ ἀπετυμπανίσθη.
57. Yet, if that man was put to death, surely Agoratus will be put to death with justice; for since he deposed against Menestratus he is responsible for his death, while, as to those who were deposed against by Menestratus, who is more responsible than the man who placed him under the necessity of such a step?
57. καίτοι εἰ ἐκεῖνος ἀπέθανεν, ἦ που Ἀγόρατός γε δικαίως ἀποθανεῖται, ὅς γε τόν τε Μενέστρατον ἀπογράψας αἴτιος ἐκείνῳ ἐστὶ τοῦ θανάτου, καὶ τοῖς ὑπὸ Μενεστράτου ἀπογραφεῖσι τίς αἰτιώτερος ἢ ὁ εἰς τοιαύτην ἀνάγκην ἐκεῖνον καταστήσας;
58. And his behavior was, I consider, quite unlike that of Aristophanes of Cholleis, who went surety for him at that time, provided the vessels at Munichia, and was ready to accompany him on the voyage. Thus, so far as it lay with him, you were saved, and then you would neither have destroyed any Athenian nor have brought your own self into such serious dangers.
58. ἀνόμοιος δέ μοι δοκεῖ Ἀριστοφάνει γενέσθαι τῷ Χολλείδῃ, ὃς ἐγγυητὴς τότε τούτου ἐγένετο καὶ τὰ πλοῖα παρασκευάσας Μουνιχίασιν ἕτοιμος ἦν συνεκπλεῖν μετὰ τούτου. καὶ τό γε ἐπʼ ἐκεῖνον εἶναι ἐσώθης, καὶ οὔτʼ ἂν Ἀθηναίων οὐδένα ἀπώλεσας οὔτʼ ἂν αὐτὸς σὺ εἰς τοιούτους κινδύνους κατέστης·
59. But no: you not only had the face to depose against your own deliverer, but by making your deposition you sent both him and your other sureties to their death. Some, indeed, desired that Aristophanes should be put to the torture, as one who was not of pure Athenian stock, and they prevailed on the people to pass the following decree.
59. νῦν δὲ καὶ τὸν σωτῆρα τὸν σαυτοῦ ἐτόλμησας ἀπογράψαι, καὶ ἀπογράψας ⟨ἀπέκτεινας⟩ καὶ ἐκεῖνον καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐγγυητάς. τοῦτον μέντοι ὡς οὐ καθαρῶς Ἀθηναῖον ὄντα ἐβούλοντό τινες βασανισθῆναι, καὶ τουτὶ τὸ ψήφισμα τὸν δῆμον ἀναπείθουσι ψηφίζεσθαι.
60. Decree Well, after that the persons who then had control of affairs came to Aristophanes and appealed to him to save himself by a denunciation, and not to run the risk of the extreme penalty by standing his trial on the count of alien birth. But he said—“Never!” Such was his loyalty both to the men who had been imprisoned and to the Athenian people that he chose to suffer death rather than denounce and destroy anyone unjustly.
60. Ψήφισμα μετὰ τοῦτο τοίνυν προσιόντες τῷ Ἀριστοφάνει οἱ πράττοντες τότε τὰ πράγματα ἐδέοντο αὐτοῦ κατειπεῖν καὶ σῴζεσθαι, καὶ μὴ κινδυνεύειν ἀγωνισάμενον τῆς ξενίας τὰ ἔσχατα παθεῖν. ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἔφη οὐδέποτε· οὕτω χρηστὸς ἦν καὶ περὶ τοὺς δεδεμένους καὶ περὶ τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων, ὥστε εἵλετο μᾶλλον ἀποθανεῖν ἢ κατειπεῖν καὶ ἀδίκως τινὰς ἀπολέσαι.
61. So this was the character shown by that man, even when you were bringing him to destruction; and you, when you knew nothing against those persons, but had been seduced with the promise to you of a share in the government then being established if they should be destroyed, made your deposition and sent to their death a large number of good Athenians.
61. ἐκεῖνος μὲν τοίνυν καὶ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἀπολλύμενος τοιουτοσὶ ἐγένετο [καὶ Ξενοφῶν ὁ στρεβλωθεὶς καὶ Ἱππίας ὁ Θάσιος]. σὺ δʼ οὐδὲν τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἐκείνοις συνειδώς, πεισθεὶς δὲ ὡς σύ γε, ἐὰν ἐκεῖνοι ἀπόλωνται, μεθέξεις τῆς τότε πολιτείας καθισταμένης, ἀπέγραψας καὶ ἀπέκτεινας Ἀθηναίων πολλοὺς καὶ ἀγαθούς.
62. But I wish now, gentlemen of the jury, to represent to you the character of the men of whom Agoratus has bereft you. Had they been merely a few, one might mention them to you separately; but, as it is, I must cover them all in one brief account. Some had served you several times as generals, and then had handed on the city with added greatness to their successors in authority;
62. βούλομαι δʼ ὑμῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ἐπιδεῖξαι οἵων ἀνδρῶν ὑπʼ Ἀγοράτου ἀπεστέρησθε. εἰ μὲν οὖν οὐ πολλοὶ ἦσαν, καθʼ ἕκαστον ἂν περὶ αὐτῶν ἠκούετε, νῦν δὲ συλλήβδην περὶ πάντων. οἱ μὲν γὰρ στρατηγήσαντες ὑμῖν πολλάκις μείζω τὴν πόλιν τοῖς διαδεχομένοις στρατηγοῖς παρεδίδοσαν·
63. some had held other high offices, and had borne the expense of many naval equipments: never before had they met with any disgraceful censure from you. Some of them survived, by having got away in safety; though this man sent them to their death none the less, and they were condemned to die: but fortune and providence delivered them. They fled the city, instead of being arrested and awaiting their trial; they have returned from the exile of Phyle, and are honored by you as worthy men.
63. οἱ δʼ ἑτέρας μεγάλας ἀρχὰς ἄρξαντες καὶ τριηραρχίας πολλὰς τριηραρχήσαντες οὐδεπώποτε ὑφʼ ὑμῶν οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν αἰσχρὰν ἔσχον. οἱ δʼ αὐτῶν περιγενόμενοι καὶ σωθέντες, οὓς οὗτος μὲν ἀπέκτεινεν ὁμοίως καὶ θάνατος αὐτῶν κατεγνώσθη, ἡ δὲ τύχη καὶ ὁ δαίμων περιεποίησε, φυγόντες [γὰρ] ἐνθένδε καὶ οὐ συλληφθέντες οὐδὲ ὑπομείναντες μείναντες τὴν κρίσιν, κατελθόντες ἀπὸ Φυλῆς τιμῶνται ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ὡς ἄνδρες ἀγαθοὶ ὄντες.
64. Such, you see, was the character of these men whom Agoratus either did to death or sent into exile from the city. And who, then, is he? You must know that he is a slave born and bred, so that you may know what manner of man it was that grossly maltreated you. For the defendant’s father was Eumares, and this Eumares was the property of Nicocles and Anticles. Come forward, please, witnesses.
64. τούτους μέντοι τοιούτους ὄντας Ἀγόρατος τοὺς μὲν ἀπέκτεινε, τοὺς δὲ φυγάδας ἐντεῦθεν ἐποίησε, τίς ὢν αὐτός; δεῖ γὰρ ὑμᾶς εἰδέναι ὅτι δοῦλος καὶ ἐκ δούλων ἐστίν, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε οἷος ὢν ὑμᾶς ἐλυμαίνετο. τουτῳὶ μὲν γὰρ πατὴρ ἦν Εὐμάρης, ἐγένετο δὲ ὁ Εὐμάρης οὗτος Νικοκλέους καὶ Ἀντικλέους. καί μοι ἀνάβητε μάρτυρες.
65. Witnesses Now Agoratus, gentlemen, had three brothers. One of them, the eldest, was caught in Sicily making traitorous signals to the enemy, and by Lamachus’s order he was executed on the plank. The second abducted a slave from our city to Corinth, and was taken in the act of abducting a girl from a household there: he was cast into prison and put to death.
65. Μάρτυρες ἦσαν τοίνυν οὗτοι, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τέτταρες ἀδελφοί. τούτων εἷς μὲν ὁ πρεσβύτατος ἐν Σικελία παραφρυκτωρευόμενος τοῖς πολεμίοις ληφθεὶς ὑπὸ Λαμάχου ἀπετυμπανίσθη· ὁ δὲ ἕτερος εἰς Κόρινθον μὲν ἐντευθενὶ ἀνδράποδον ἐξήγαγεν, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ παιδίσκην αὖθις ἐξάγων ἁλίσκεται, καὶ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ δεδεμένος ἀπέθανε· τὸν δὲ τρίτον Φαινιππίδης ἐνθάδε λωποδύτην ἀπήγαγε, καὶ ὑμεῖς κρίναντες αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ καὶ καταγνόντες αὐτοῦ θάνατον ἀποτυμπανίσαι παρέδοτε.
66. The third was arrested here by Phaenippides as a clothes stealer, and you tried him in your court: you condemned him to death, and consigned him to execution on the plank. The truth of my statements will, I think, be admitted even by this man himself, and we shall produce witnesses to support them. Witnesses Now, to tell of all the other injuries and infamies, gentlemen, which have been the practice of this man and his brothers would be a lengthy task. As to his trade of slander in all the private suits that he brought, or in the various impeachments and depositions that he made, there is no need for me to speak in detail. To sum the whole, you all in the Assembly, and likewise in the law-court, convicted him of venal slander and made him pay a fine of ten thousand drachmae;
66. ὡς δὲ ἀληθῆ λέγω, καὶ αὐτὸν οἶμαι ὁμολογήσειν τοῦτον καὶ μάρτυρας παρεξόμεθα. Μάρτυρες τἆλλα τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὅσα κακὰ καὶ αἰσχρὰ καὶ τούτῳ καὶ τοῖς τούτου ἀδελφοῖς ἐπιτετήδευται, πολὺ ἂν εἴη ἔργον λέγειν. περὶ δὲ συκοφαντίας, ὅσας οὗτος ἢ δίκας ἰδίας συκοφαντῶν ἐδικάζετο ἢ γραφὰς ὅσας ἐγράφετο ἢ ἀπογραφὰς ἀπέγραφεν, οὐδὲν με δεῖ καθʼ ἕκαστον λέγειν· συλλήβδην γὰρ ὑμεῖς ἅπαντες καὶ ἐν τῷ δήμῳ καὶ ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ συκοφαντίας αὐτοῦ κατέγνωτε καὶ ὦφλεν ὑμῖν μυρίας δραχμάς, ὥστε τοῦτο μὲν ἱκανῶς ὑπὸ ὑμῶν ἁπάντων μεμαρτύρηται.
68. so that this point has been sufficiently attested by your whole body. Then again, he attempted, with a character like that, to debauch and defile free-born wives of our citizens, and was taken in adultery; and for that the penalty is death. Call witnesses to the truth of my words.
68. γυναῖκας τοίνυν τῶν πολιτῶν τοιοῦτος ὢν μοιχεύειν καὶ διαφθείρειν ἐλευθέρας ἐπεχείρησε, καὶ ἐλήφθη μοιχός· καὶ τούτου θάνατος ἡ ζημία ἐστίν. ὡς δὲ ἀληθῆ λέγω, μάρτυρας κάλει.
69. Witnesses Then is it not clearly a duty upon you all to convict this man? For if each of the brothers was thought deserving of death for a single offence, surely the man who, both publicly against the city and privately against each of you, has committed many offences, for each of which the penalty under our laws is death, must by all means be condemned to death by you.
69. Μάρτυρες πῶς οὖν οὐχ ἅπασι προσήκει ὑμῖν τούτου καταψηφίζεσθαι; εἰ γὰρ τούτων ἕκαστος διʼ ἓν ἁμάρτημα θανάτου ἠξιώθη, ἦ που τοῦ γε πολλὰ ἐξημαρτηκότος καὶ δημοσίᾳ εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἰδίᾳ εἰς ἕκαστον ὑμῶν, ὧν ἑκάστου ἁμαρτήματος ἐν τοῖς νόμοις θάνατος ἡ ζημία ἐστί, δεῖ ὑμᾶς σφόδρα θάνατον αὐτοῦ καταψηφίσασθαι.
70. He will say, gentlemen, attempting to deceive you, that in the time of the Four Hundred he killed Phrynichus, and in reward for this, he asserts, the people made him an Athenian citizen. But he lies, gentlemen. For neither did he kill Phrynichus, nor did the people make him an Athenian citizen.
70. λέξει δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ ἐξαπατῆσαι ὑμᾶς πειράσεται, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν τετρακοσίων Φρύνιχον ἀπέκτεινε, καὶ ἀντὶ τούτου φησιν αὐτὸν Ἀθηναῖον τὸν δῆμον ποιήσασθαι, ψευδόμενος, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί· οὔτε γὰρ Φρύνιχον ἀπέκτεινεν οὔτε Ἀθηναῖον αὐτὸν ὁ δῆμος ἐποιήσατο.
71. It was Thrasybulus of Calydon and Apollodorus of Megara, gentlemen, who combined in a plot against Phrynichus: they lighted on him as he was out walking, and Thrasybulus struck Phrynichus, knocking him down with the blow; but Apollodorus did not touch him. Meanwhile an outcry arose, and they ran off and disappeared. But Agoratus here was neither invited to join them nor was present at the deed, nor does he know anything of the matter. The truth of my statement will be shown you by the decree itself.
71. Φρυνίχῳ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, κοινῇ Θρασύβουλός τε ὁ Καλυδώνιος καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Μεγαρεὺς ἐπεβούλευσαν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐπετυχέτην αὐτῷ βαδίζοντι, ὁ μὲν Θρασύβουλος τύπτει τὸν Φρύνιχον καὶ καταβάλλει πατάξας, ὁ δὲ Ἀπολλόδωρος οὐχ ἥψατο· ἀλλʼ ἐν τούτῳ κραυγὴ γίγνεται καὶ ᾤχοντο φεύγοντες. Ἀγόρατος δὲ οὑτοσὶ οὔτε παρεκλήθη οὔτε παρεγένετο οὔτε οἶδε τοῦ πράγματος οὐδέν. ὡς δὲ ἀληθῆ λέγω, αὐτὸ ὑμῖν τὸ ψήφισμα δηλώσει.
72. Decree That he did not kill Phrynichus is clear from the decree itself: for nowhere do we find “that Agoratus be an Athenian,” as in the case of Thrasybulus. If, however, he had killed Phrynichus, he ought to appear as having been made an Athenian in the inscription on the same tablet as Thrasybulus does; though some do contrive, by bribing the proposer, to have their own names added to the tablet as “benefactors.” The truth of my words will be proved by this decree.
72. Ψήφισμα ὅτι μὲν οὐκ ἀπέκτεινε Φρύνιχον, ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ψηφίσματος δῆλον· οὐδαμοῦ γάρ ἐστιν Ἀγόρατον Ἀθηναῖον εἶναι ὥσπερ Θρασύβουλον [καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρον]. καίτοι εἴπερ ἀπέκτεινε Φρύνιχον, ἔδει αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ στήλῃ, ἵνα περ Θρασύβουλον [καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρον], Ἀθηναῖον πεποιημένον ⟨ἐγγεγράφθαι⟩· τὰ μέντοι ὀνόματα διαπράττονται σφῶν αὐτῶν, δόντες ἀργύριον τῷ ῥήτορι, προσγραφῆναι εἰς τὴν στήλην ὡς εὐεργέτας ὄντας. καὶ ὡς ἀληθῆ λέγω, τοῦτο τὸ ψήφισμα ἐλέγξει.
73. Decree But yet, this man had so much contempt for you that although he was not an Athenian he took his seat in the law-court, and in the Assembly, and made impeachments of every conceivable kind, giving in his name with the addition—“of Anagyra.” And besides, I have further good evidence against his having killed Phrynichus,—an act for which he claims to have been made an Athenian: this Phrynichus established the Four Hundred; after his death, most of the Four Hundred fled.
73. Ψήφισμα οὕτω μέντοι οὑτοσὶ πολὺ ὑμῶν κατεφρόνει, ὥστε οὐκ ὢν Ἀθηναῖος καὶ ἐδίκαζε καὶ ἠκκλησίαζε καὶ γραφὰς τὰς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἐγράφετο, ἐπιγραφόμενος Ἀναγυράσιος, εἶναι. ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ ἕτερον μέγα τεκμήριον ὡς οὐκ [ἂν] ἀπέκτεινε Φρύνιχον, διʼ ὃ Ἀθηναῖός φησι γεγενῆσθαι. ὁ Φρύνιχος γὰρ οὗτος τοὺς τετρακοσίους κατέστησεν· ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἐκεῖνος ἀπέθανεν, οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν τετρακοσίων ἔφυγον.
74. Do you then believe that the Thirty and the Council in session at that time, who were themselves all members of the Four Hundred who had fled, would have let off the slayer of Phrynichus when they had hold of him, instead of taking vengeance on him for Phrynichus and the exile they had suffered?
74. πότερον οὖν δοκοῦσιν ὑμῖν οἱ τριάκοντα καὶ ἡ βουλὴ ἡ τότε βουλεύουσα, οἳ αὐτοὶ ἦσαν ἅπαντες τῶν τετρακοσίων τῶν φυγόντων, ἀφεῖναι ἂν λαβόντες τὸν Φρύνιχον ἀποκτείναντα, ἢ τιμωρήσασθαι ὑπὲρ Φρυνίχου καὶ τῆς φυγῆς ἧς αὐτοὶ ἔφυγον;
75. In my opinion, they would have taken vengeance on him. Now, if he is pretending, as I assert, to be the slayer of Phrynichus when he is not, he is guilty there; while if you, sir, dispute this, and declare that you did kill Phrynichus, it is evident that you must have done yet greater injuries to the Athenian people so as to redeem, in the eyes of the Thirty, the blame for Phrynichus’s death. For you will never persuade anyone at all that after killing Phrynichus you would have been let off by the Thirty, unless you had inflicted great and irremediable injuries upon the Athenian people.
75. ἐγὼ μὲν οἶμαι τιμωρεῖσθαι ἄν. εἰ μὲν οὖν μὴ ἀποκτείνας προσποιεῖται, ὡς ἐγώ φημι, ἀδικεῖ· εἰ δὲ ἀμφισβητεῖς καὶ φῂς Φρύνιχον ἀποκτεῖναι, δῆλον ὅτι μείζω τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων κακὰ ποιήσας τὴν ὑπὲρ Φρυνίχου αἰτίαν πρὸς τοὺς τριάκοντα ἀπελύσω· οὐδέποτε γὰρ πείσεις οὐδένα ἀνθρώπων ὡς Φρύνιχον ἀποκτείνας ἀφείθης ἂν ὑπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα, εἰ μὴ μεγάλα τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων καὶ ἀνήκεστα κακὰ εἰργάσω.
76. Hence, if he asserts that he killed Phrynichus, remember my words and take vengeance on this man for what he has done: if he disclaims it, ask him on what grounds he alleges that he was made an Athenian. If he fails to prove it, punish him for making use of his assumed title of Athenian to sit in both law-court and Assembly, and to bring slanderous charges against so many persons.
76. ἐὰν μὲν οὖν φάσκῃ Φρύνιχον ἀποκτεῖναι, τούτων μέμνησθε καὶ τοῦτον τιμωρεῖσθε ἀνθʼ ὧν ἐποίησεν· ἐὰν δʼ οὐ φάσκῃ, ἔρεσθε αὐτὸν διʼ ὅ τι φησὶν Ἀθηναῖος ποιηθῆναι. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔχῃ ἀποδεῖξαι, τιμωρεῖσθε αὐτὸν ὅτι καὶ ἐδίκαζε καὶ ἠκκλησίαζε καὶ ἐσυκοφάντει πολλοὺς ὡς Ἀθηναῖος τοὔνομα ἐπιγραφόμενος.
77. I am told that he is concocting for his defence the plea that he went off to Phyle, and was in the party that returned from Phyle, and that this is the mainstay of his case. But the facts were as I shall relate. This man did go to Phyle; yet, could there be an example of more abject vileness? For he knew that at Phyle there were some of those who had been banished by him, and he had the face to approach them!
77. ἀκούω δὲ αὐτὸν παρασκευάζεσθαι ἀπολογεῖσθαι, ὡς ἐπὶ Φυλήν τε ᾤχετο καὶ συγκατῆλφεν ἀπὸ Φυλῆς, καὶ τοῦτο μέγιστον ἀγώνισμα εἶναι. ἐγένετο δὲ τοιοῦτον· ἦλθεν οὗτος ἐπὶ Φυλήν· καίτοι πῶς ἂν γένοιτο ἄνθρωπος μιαρώτερος; ὅστις εἰδὼς ὅτι εἰσί τινες ἐπὶ Φυλῇ τῶν ὑπὸ τούτου ἐκπεπτωκότων ἐτόλμησεν ἐλθεῖν ὡς τούτους. ἐπειδὴ δὲ εἶδον αὐτὸν τάχιστα, συλλαβόντες ἄγουσιν ἄντικρυς ὡς ἀποκτενοῦντες, οὗπερ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀπέσφαττον, εἴ τινα λῃστὴν ἢ κακοῦργον συλλάβοιεν.
78. As soon as they saw him they laid hold of him and dragged him straight away to be killed in the place where they executed ordinary pirates or robbers that fell into their hands. Anytus, who was the general, said that they ought not to do that, on the ground that they were not yet in a position to punish certain of their enemies: at that moment they should rather keep quiet. If ever they returned home, they would then proceed to punish the guilty.
78. στρατηγῶν δὲ Ἄνυτος [ἐπὶ Φυλὴν] οὐκ ἔφη χρῆναι ποιεῖν αὐτοὺς ταῦτα, λέγων ὅτι ⟨οὔπω⟩ οὕτω διακέοιντο, ὥστε τιμωρεῖσθαί τινας τῶν ἐχθρῶν, ἀλλὰ νῦν μὲν δεῖν αὐτοὺς ἡσυχίαν ἔχειν. εἰ δέ ποτε οἴκαδε κατέλθοιεν, τότε καὶ τιμωρήσοιντο τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας.
79. By that speech he was the cause of this man’s escape at Phyle: it was necessary to obey a man in the position of general, if they were to preserve themselves. Nay, further, you will find no one who has shared either this man’s table or his tent, nor did the commander assign him a place in his tribe; to all he was a polluted person with whom they would not talk. Please call the commander.
79. ταῦτα λέγων αἴτιος ἐγένετο τοῦ ἀποφυγεῖν τοῦτον ἐπὶ Φυλῇ· ἀνάγκη δὲ ἦν στρατηγοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀκροᾶσθαι, εἴπερ ἔμελλον σωθήσεσθαι. ἀλλʼ ἕτερον· οὔτε γὰρ συσσιτήσας τούτῳ οὐδεὶς φανήσεται οὔτε σύσκηνος γενόμενος οὔτε ⟨ὁ⟩ ταξίαρχος εἰς τὴν φυλὴν κατατάξας, ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἀλιτηρίῳ οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων αὐτῷ διελέγετο. καί μοι κάλει τὸν ταξίαρχον.
80. Evidence When they had reached their mutual agreement, and the Peiraeus party made their procession to the citadel, they were led by Aesimus; but there too this man showed similar audacity. For he followed along under arms, joining in the procession with the heavy-armed men to the city.
80. Μάρτυρες ἐπειδὴ δὲ ⟨αἱ⟩ διαλλαγαὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐγένοντο καὶ ἔπεμψαν οἱ [πολῖται] ἐκ Πειραιῶς τὴν πομπὴν εἰς πόλιν, ἡγεῖτο μὲν Αἴσιμος [τῶν πολιτῶν], οὗτος δὲ οὕτω τολμηρὸς καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐγένετο· συνηκολούθει γὰρ λαβὼν τὰ ὅπλα καὶ συνέπεμπε τὴν πομπὴν μετὰ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν πρὸς τὸ ἄστυ.
81. But when they were close to the gates, and grounded arms before entering the city, Aesimus perceived him and went up to him, seized his shield, and flung it away, with the order—“Be off, crows’ meat! A murderer like you must not join in the procession to Athene.” This was the way in which he was driven off by Aesimus; and I will produce witnesses to the truth of my statement.
81. ἐπειδὴ δὲ πρὸς ταῖς πύλαις ἦσαν καὶ ἔθεντο τὰ ὅπλα, πρὶν εἰσιέναι εἰς τὸ ἄστυ, ὁ μὲν Αἴσιμος αἰσθάνεται καὶ προσελθὼν τήν τε ἀσπίδα αὐτοῦ λαβὼν ἔρριψε, καὶ ἀπιέναι ἐκέλευσεν ἐς κόρακας [ἐκ τῶν πολιτῶν.] οὐ γὰρ ἔφη δεῖν ἀνδροφόνον αὐτὸν ὄντα συμπέμπειν τὴν πομπὴν τῇ Ἀθηνᾷ. τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ ὑπὸ Αἰσίμου ἀπηλάθη. ὡς δʼ ἀληθῆ λέγω, μάρτυρας παρέξομαι.
82. Witnesses These were the real relations, gentlemen, that he had with the heavy-armed troops, both at Phyle and in the Peiraeus. Nobody would speak to him, as a known murderer, and Anytus was the cause of his escape from death. If, therefore, he makes use of his journey to Phyle as a plea in his defence, you must retort with the question whether Anytus was the cause of his escape from death when they were ready to do justice upon him, and whether Aesimus flung away his shield and forbade him to join in the procession.
82. Μάρτυρες τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ ἐπὶ Φυλῇ καὶ ἐν Πειραιεῖ πρὸς τοὺς ὁπλίτας διέκειτο· οὐδεὶς γὰρ αὐτῷ διελέγετο ὡς ἀνδροφόνῳ ὄντι, τοῦ τε μὴ ἀποθανεῖν Ἄνυτος ἐγένετο αὐτῷ αἴτιος. ἐὰν οὖν τῇ ἐπὶ Φυλὴν ὁδῷ ἀπολογίᾳ χρῆται, ὑπολαμβάνειν χρὴ εἰ Ἄνυτος αὐτῷ ἐγένετο αἴτιος μὴ ἀποθανεῖν ἑτοίμων ὄντων τιμωρεῖσθαι, καὶ ἔρριψεν αὐτοῦ Αἴσιμος τὴν ἀσπίδα καὶ οὐκ εἴα [μετὰ τῶν πολιτῶν] συμπέμπειν τὴν πομπήν, [καὶ εἴ τις αὐτὸν ταξίαρχος εἰς τάξιν τινὰ κατέταξε].
83. You must not accept that plea from him, nor this one either, if he should urge it,—that we are exacting the penalty a long time after the offence. For I do not think there is any statute of limitations for such crimes as his: my opinion rather is that, whether brought to his account immediately or after some time, this man must prove that he has not done the things that form the subject of the charge.
83. μήτε οὖν ταῦτα αὐτοῦ ἀποδέχεσθε, μήτʼ ἐὰν λέγῃ ὅτι πολλῷ χρόνῳ ὕστερον τιμωρούμεθα. οὐ γὰρ οἶμαι οὐδεμίαν τῶν τοιούτων ἀδικημάτων προθεσμίαν εἶναι, ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ μὲν οἶμαι, εἴτʼ εὐθὺς εἴτε χρόνῳ τις τιμωρεῖται, τοῦτον δεῖν ἀποδεικνύναι ὡς οὐ πεποίηκε περὶ ὧν ἐστιν ἡ αἰτία.
84. Let him therefore satisfy us, either that he did not cause the death of those men, or that he did so with justice because they were doing a mischief to the Athenian people. But if we are late in punishing where we ought to have punished long ago, he is a gainer by the time in which he lived illicitly, while those men have none the less suffered death by his act.
84. οὗτος τοίνυν τοῦτο ἀποφαινέτω, ἢ ὡς οὐκ ἀπέκτεινεν ἐκείνους ἢ ὡς δικαίως, κακόν τι ποιοῦντας τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων. εἰ δὲ πάλαι δέον τιμωρεῖσθαι ὕστερον ἡμεῖς τιμωρούμεθα, τὸν χρόνον κερδαίνει ὃν ἔζη οὐ προσῆκον αὐτῷ, οἱ δὲ ἄνδρες ὑπὸ τούτου οὐδὲν ἧττον τεθνήκασιν.
85. I am told that he also takes his stand on the plea that the words “in the act” appear in the warrant for arrest; but this, I consider, is utter imbecility. So, without the addition of the words “in the act,” he would be liable to the arrest; but just because the words have been added, he thinks he can extricate himself! This simply amounts, it would seem, to an admission that he has killed, but has not been taken in the act; and to insist on that is to imply that, if he was not taken in the act, but did the killing, he ought therefore to escape.
85. ἀκούω δʼ αὐτὸν καὶ ⟨τούτῳ⟩ διισχυρίζεσθαι, ὅτι ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ τῇ ἀπαγωγῇ ἐπιγέγραπται, ὃ πάντων ἐγὼ οἶμαι εὐηθέστατον· ὡς εἰ μὲν τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ μὴ προσεγέγραπτο, ἔνοχος ⟨ἂν⟩ ὢν τῇ ἀπαγωγῇ· διότι δὲ τοῦτο προσγέγραπται, [ἔνοχος ὢν] ῥᾳστώνην τινὰ οἴεται αὑτῷ εἶναι. τοῦτο δὲ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἔοικεν ἢ ὁμολογεῖν ἀποκτεῖναι, μὴ ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ δέ, καὶ περὶ τούτου διισχυρίζεσθαι, ὥσπερ, εἰ μὴ ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ μέν, ἀπέκτεινε δέ, τούτου ἕνεκα δέον αὐτὸν σῴζεσθαι.
86. But, in my view, the Eleven who authorized this arrest, without a thought of supporting Agoratus’s plea,—on which he was even then insisting,—were quite correct in compelling Dionysius, who sought the warrant for arrest, to add the words “in the act”: surely that must be so, in dealing with a man who, first before five hundred, and then again before the whole body of the Athenians, made depositions whereby he took the lives of some of them, and thus was responsible for their death.
86. δοκοῦσι δʼ ἔμοιγε οἱ ἕνδεκα οἱ παραδεξάμενοι τὴν ἀπαγωγὴν ταύτην, ⟨οὐκ⟩ οἰόμενοι Ἀγοράτῳ συμπράττειν καὶ τότε διισχυριζομένῳ, σφόδρα ὀρθῶς ποιῆσαι Διονύσιον τὴν ἀπαγωγὴν ἀπάγοντʼ ἀναγκάζοντες τό γε προσγράψασθαι ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ· ἢ πῶς οὐκ ἂν εἴη ⟨ὃς⟩ πρῶτον μὲν ἐναντίον πεντακοσίων ⟨ἐν τῇ βουλῇ⟩, εἶτα πάλιν ἐναντίον Ἀθηναίων ἁπάντων [ἐν τῷ δήμῳ] ἀπογράψας τινὰς ἀποκτείνειε καὶ αἴτιος γένοιτο τοῦ θανάτου;
87. For you cannot of course suppose that “in the act” only applies to a man felled with the stroke of a club or a dagger; since, by your argument, nobody will be found to have actually killed the men against whom you deposed. For no one either struck them or assassinated them, but your deposition had the effect of compelling them to die. Then is not the author of their death a person caught “in the act”? Now, who can be that author but you, who made the depositions? So clearly you, who killed them, have been caught in the act.
87. οὐ γὰρ δήπου τοῦτο μόνον οἴει τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ, ἐάν τις ξύλῳ ἢ μαχαίρᾳ πατάξας καταβάλῃ, ἐπεὶ ἔκ γε τοῦ σοῦ λόγου οὐδεὶς φανήσεται ἀποκτείνας τοὺς ἄνδρας οὓς σὺ ἀπέγραψας· οὔτε γὰρ ἐπάταξεν αὐτοὺς οὐδεὶς οὔτʼ ἀπέσφαξεν, ἀλλʼ ἀναγκασθέντες ὑπὸ τῆς σῆς ἀπογραφῆς ἀπέθανον. οὐκ οὖν ⟨ὁ⟩ αἴτιος τοῦ θανάτου, οὗτος ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ ἐστί; τίς οὖν ἄλλος αἴτιος ἢ σὺ ἀπογράψας; ὥστε πῶς οὐκ ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ σὺ εἶ ὁ ἀποκτείνας;
88. I understand that he intends to refer to the oaths and agreements, and will tell us that his prosecution is a violation of the oaths and agreements that we of the Peiraeus contracted with the party of the town. Well, if he takes his stand on these, he practically admits that he is a murderer: at least, he makes an objection of oaths, or agreements, or lapse of time, or the words “in the act”; but in itself the case affords him no confidence of success in his trial.
88. πυνθάνομαι δʼ αὐτὸν καὶ περὶ τῶν ὅρκων καὶ περὶ τῶν συνθηκῶν μέλλειν λέγειν, ὡς παρὰ τοὺς ὅρκους καὶ τὰς συνθήκας ἀγωνίζεται ἃς συνεθέμεθα πρὸς τοὺς ἐν ἄστει οἱ ἐν [τῷ] Πειραιεῖ. σχεδὸν μὲν οὖν τούτοις ἰσχυριζόμενος ὁμολογεῖ ἀνδροφόνος εἶναι· ἐμποδὼν γοῦν ἢ ὅρκους ἢ συνθήκας ἢ χρόνον ἢ ⟨τὸ⟩ ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ [τι] ποιεῖται, αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ πράγματι οὔ τι πιστεύει καλῶς ἀγωνιεῖσθαι.
89. Your duty, gentlemen of the jury, is to reject these arguments: you must bid him direct his defence to these questions—Did he make no depositions? Are those men not dead? Besides, I consider that the oaths and agreements in no way affect our position regarding this man. For the oaths have been taken between the parties of the town and of the Peiraeus.
89. ὑμῖν δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οὐ προσήκει περὶ τούτων ἀποδέχεσθαι· ἀλλʼ ὡς οὐκ ἀπέγραψεν οὐδὲ οἱ ἄνδρες τεθνᾶσι, περὶ τούτων κελεύετε αὐτὸν ἀπολογεῖσθαι. ἔπειτα τοὺς ὅρκους καὶ τὰς συνθήκας οὐδὲν ἡγοῦμαι προσήκειν ἡμῖν πρὸς τοῦτον. οἱ γὰρ ὅρκοι τοῖς ἐν ἄστει πρὸς τοὺς ἐν Πειραιεῖ γεγένηνται.
90. If indeed, he was in the town while we were in the Peiraeus, the agreements would have been something for him to count upon; but the truth is that he was in the Peiraeus, like me and Dionysius and all these persons who are for punishing the man, so that we are faced with no objection there. For there was no oath taken between the men of the Peiraeus and the men of the Peiraeus.
90. εἰ μὲν οὖν οὗτος μὲν ἐν ἄστει ἡμεῖς δʼ ἐν Πειραιεῖ ἦμεν, εἶχον ⟨ἄν⟩ τινα λόγον αὐτῷ αἱ συνθῆκαι· νῦν δὲ καὶ οὗτος ἐν Πειραιεῖ ἦν καὶ ἐγὼ καὶ Διονύσιος καὶ οὗτοι ἅπαντες οἱ τοῦτον τιμωρούμενοι, ὥστε οὔκ εἰσιν ἡμῖν ἐμποδὼν ⟨οὐδέν⟩· οὐδένα γὰρ ὅρκον οἱ ἐν Πειραιεῖ τοῖς ἐν Πειραιεῖ ὤμοσαν.
91. In every view, I consider, he deserves more deaths than one; for the same man who says that the people have made him one of them is found to have injured the people whom he himself calls his father, by treacherously sapping the resources that they had for advancing their greatness and strength. Therefore, just as much as the man who struck his own natural father and denied him all necessaries of life, he who robbed his adoptive father of the means that he possessed is certainly, on this one score, as provided by the law of such maltreatment, deserving of the penalty of death.
91. ἐκ παντὸς δὲ τρόπου ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ οὐχ ἑνὸς θανάτου ἄξιος εἶναι, ὅστις φησὶ μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου ⟨πεποιῆσθαι⟩, τὸν δὲ δῆμον, ὃν αὐτός φησι πατέρα αὑτοῦ εἶναι, φαίνεται κακώσας, καθυφεὶς καὶ προδοὺς ἐξ ὧν ἐκεῖνος μείζων καὶ ἰσχυρότερος ἐγίγνετο. ὅστις οὖν τόν τε γόνῳ πατέρα τὸν αὑτοῦ ἔτυπτε καὶ οὐδὲν παρεῖχε τῶν ἐπιτηδείων, τόν τε ποιητὸν πατέρα ἀφείλετο ἃ ἦν ὑπάρχοντα ἐκείνῳ ἀγαθά, πῶς οὐ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο κατὰ τὸν τῆς κακώσεως νόμον ἄξιός ἐστι θανάτῳ ζημιωθῆναι;
92. It is the duty of you all, gentlemen, as it is of each one of us, to avenge those men. For it was their dying injunction both to us and to all their friends, that we should avenge them on this man Agoratus as their murderer, and do him, in a word, all the injury of which each of us is capable. Now, if they have manifestly done some good service to the city or your democracy, as you yourselves acknowledge, it must follow that you all are friends and intimates of theirs, so that they enjoined this on each of you no less than on us. Hence it would be impious as well as illegal for you to absolve this man Agoratus.
92. προσήκει δʼ ὑμῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ἅπασι τιμωρεῖν ὑπὲρ ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνδρῶν ὁμοίως ὥσπερ ἡμῶν ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ. ἀποθνῄσκοντες γὰρ [ὑμῖν] ἐπέσκηψαν καὶ ἡμῖν καὶ τοῖς φίλοις ἅπασι τιμωρεῖν ὑπὲρ σφῶν αὐτῶν Ἀγόρατον τουτονὶ ὡς φονέα ὄντα, καὶ κακῶς ποιεῖν καθʼ ὅσον ἂν ἔμβραχυ ἕκαστος δύνηται. εἰ τοίνυν τι ἐκεῖνοι ἀγαθὸν τὴν πόλιν ἢ τὸ πλῆθος τὸ ὑμέτερον φανεροί εἰσι πεποιηκότες, ὃ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑμεῖς ὁμολογεῖτε, ἀνάγκη ὑμᾶς ἐστι πάντας ἐκείνοις φίλους καὶ ἐπιτηδείους εἶναι, ὥστε οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἡμῖν ἢ καὶ ὑμῶν ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἐπέσκηψαν.
93. And now it is for you, men of Athens, today,—since at that moment when they were to die you were unable to come to their aid because of the embarrassments of your situation,—today, when you are able, to punish their murderer. And take heed, men of Athens, lest you commit the most abominable act of all. For if you acquit this man Agoratus, your action does not stop there, but by that same vote you condemn to death those men whom you acknowledge as your supporters.
93. οὔκουν οὔτε ὅσιον οὔτε νόμιμον ὑμῖν ἐστιν ἀνεῖναι Ἀγόρατον τουτονί. ὑμεῖς τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, νυνὶ δή, ἐπεὶ ἐν τῷ τότε χρόνῳ, ἐν ᾧ ἐκεῖνοι ἀπέθνῃσκον, οὐχ οἷοί τε ἦστε ἐπαρκέσαι διὰ τὰ πράγματα τὰ περιεστηκότα, νυνί, ἐν ᾧ δύνασθε, τιμωρήσατε τὸν ἐκείνων φονέα. ἐνθυμεῖσθε δʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅπως μὴ πάντων ἔργον σχετλιώτατον ἐργάσησθε. εἰ γὰρ ἀποψηφιεῖσθε Ἀγοράτου τουτουί, οὐ μόνον τοῦτο διαπράττεσθε, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνδρῶν, οὓς ὁμολογεῖτε ὑμῖν εὔνους εἶναι, τῇ αὐτῇ ψήφῳ ταύτῃ θάνατον καταψηφίζεσθε·
94. By releasing the author of their death you simply decide that they have been justly put to death by him. And thus the most awful of all fates would be theirs, if those whom they charged to avenge them as their friends should support with their votes the motion of the Thirty against those men.
94. ἀπολύοντες γὰρ τὸν αἴτιον ὄντα ἐκείνοις τοῦ θανάτου οὐδὲν ἄλλο γιγνώσκετε ἢ ἐκείνους δικαίως ὑπὸ τούτου τεθνηκέναι. καὶ οὕτως ἂν δεινότατα πάντων πάθοιεν, εἰ οἷς ἐπέσκηπτον ἐκεῖνοι ὡς φίλοις οὖσι τιμωρεῖν ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν, οὗτοι ὁμόψηφοι κατʼ ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνδρῶν τοῖς τριάκοντα γενήσονται.
95. In the name of the Olympian gods, gentlemen of the jury, let neither art nor craft induce you to condemn those men to death who precisely for their many good services to you were put to death by the Thirty and by Agoratus here. Remember all the horrors, both those that smote the State as a whole and those that each of us felt in private, when those men lost their lives, and punish the author of them all. It has been made plain to you, alike from the decrees, the depositions and all the rest, that Agoratus is the author of their death.
95. μηδαμῶς, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, πρὸς θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων, μήτε τέχνῃ μήτε μηχανῇ μηδεμιᾷ θάνατον ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνδρῶν καταψηφίσησθε, οἳ πολλὰ κἀγαθὰ ὑμᾶς ποιήσαντες διὰ ταῦτα ὑπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα καὶ Ἀγοράτου τουτουὶ ἀπέθανον. ἀναμνησθέντες οὖν ἁπάντων τῶν δεινῶν, καὶ τῶν κοινῶν τῇ πόλει καὶ τῶν ἰδίων, ὅσα ἑκάστῳ ἐγένετο ἐπειδὴ ἐκεῖνοι οἱ ἄνδρες ἐτελεύτησαν, τιμωρήσατε τὸν αἴτιον τούτων. ἀποδέδεικται δʼ ὑμῖν [ἅπαντα] καὶ ἐκ τῶν ψηφισμάτων καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀπογραφῶν καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων Ἀγόρατος ὢν αὐτοῖς τοῦ θανάτου.
96. Furthermore, it behoves you to vote in opposition to the Thirty: you must therefore acquit the men whom they condemned to death; and you must convict those whom they did not so condemn. Now, the Thirty condemned to death these men, who were your friends, and these you ought to acquit. Agoratus they acquitted, because he was found zealous for their destruction: him you ought to convict.
96. ἔτι δὲ καὶ προσήκει ὑμῖν ἐναντία τοῖς τριάκοντα ψηφίζεσθαι· ὧν μὲν τοίνυν ἐκεῖνοι θάνατον κατέγνωσαν, ὑμεῖς ἀποψηφίσασθε· ὧν δʼ ἐκεῖνοι θάνατον οὐ κατέγνωσαν, ὑμεῖς καταψηφίσασθε. οἱ τριάκοντα τοίνυν τῶν μὲν ἀνδρῶν τούτων, οἳ ἦσαν ὑμέτεροι φίλοι, θάνατον κατέγνωσαν, ὧν δεῖ ὑμᾶς ἀποψηφίζεσθαι· Ἀγοράτου δὲ ἀπεψηφίσαντο, διότι ἐδόκει προθύμως τούτους ἀπολλύναι· οὗ προσήκει καταψηφίζεσθαι.
97. If therefore, you vote in opposition to the Thirty, first of all, you are not supporting your enemies with your votes; next, you will have avenged your own friends; and last, you will he held by all the world to have given a just and a pious vote.
97. ἐὰν οὖν τὰ ἐναντία τοῖς τριάκοντα ψηφίζησθε, πρῶτον μὲν οὐχ ὁμόψηφοι ⟨τοῖς ἐχθροῖς⟩ γίγνεσθε, ἔπειτα τοῖς ὑμετέροις αὐτῶν φίλοις τετιμωρηκότες ἔσεσθε, ἔπειτα τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις δόξετε δίκαια καὶ ὅσια ψηφίσασθαι.