be right to spare this man, who is obviously1 ever solicitous 52 for his own aggrandisement,53 and cares for honour 55 and his friends? nothing XXI. On this,1 the herald of the Thirty [Tyrants] commanded the police to arrest Theramenes; and they having entered with their attendants,5 Satyrus,6 the most reckless? and profligate of them, leading them, Critias said: 'We deliver over to you Theramenes, who is before you, condemned 10 according to the law; and do you, police, apprehend and conduct him to prison,12 and complete your duty.'13 On these words, 14 Satyrus dragged him from the altar-the attendants also dragged him away. Theramenes, as might have been expected,15 invoked gods and men to look down on what was passing; 16 but the senate maintained 1 silence, seeing that the men at the bar18 were also like Satyrus, and that the [space] in front of the senate-house 19 was full of guards 20-aware, also, that those present had daggers with them.21 They conducted the man through the Agora, protesting against 22 his treatment23 in very loud accents.25 One saying 26 of his is recorded. When Satyrus told him that he would suffer,27 if he were 2 Oi evdeka. See SMITH, Dict. Ant. in voce 'The 1 'Εκ τούτου. Eleven,' p. 372, a. ὁ Ὑπηρέται. * Ο Σάτυρος. 10 Karakpiva, part. perf. pass. 12 Οὗ δεῖ· a euphemism. δὲ ταῦτα εἶπεν. 15 Ωσπερ εἰκός. 18 Οἱ δρύφακτοι. 10 Τὸ βουλευτήριον. present, having daggers' [èyxeipídia]. 24 Μέγας. 13 Do the 25 Φωνή. 20 Ρήμα. Gr. Gr. § 156 (oratio obliqua). 14 Ως 22 Δηλόω. 27 οιμώζω, aor. 1 act. opt. W. not silent, he said: 28 And if I am silent, shall I not still suffer?' 29 And when he began to drink 30 the hemlock, constrained to die, they report that he said, as he dashed away 31 the last drops,32 This to the health of 33 the handsome Critias!' 28 Επήρετο. 30 Επιε. 29 W. Gr. Gr. § 56, obs. 4. Future of οἰμώζω. 31 'ATTOKOTTAẞioavта. SMITH, Dict. Ant., art. Kórraßos. 33 Let this be to,' 32 Τὸ λειπόμενον. XXII. Meanness1 is a neglect of ambition carried to excess,2 attended with expense; and the mean man is a character disposed, after a triumph5 in the tragic chorus, to dedicate? a wooden tripod to Dionysos, inscribed with his own name. And when voluntary contributions 10 are being offered, to be silent, or to rise and leave the assembly.11 And in giving his own daughter in marriage,12 to sell the flesh of the victim,13 excepting the parts offered in sacrifice;14 and to hire 15 the attendants at marriages on board wages.16 And when trierarch, to spread the pilot's 18 hammock 19 beneath the deck,20 and to reserve 21 his own. And after visiting the market,22 to carry the meat and vegetables 23 himself from the market in his pocket. And to abide within [doors], whenever 25 he sends out 26 a robe to wash.27 1 Ανελευθερία. οὗτός τις, οἷος. 2 * Περιουσία τις ἀφιλοτιμίας. 5 Nikậv, 1 aor. act. partic. 7 Ανατιθέναι, 2 αor. act. δόσεις. 6 3 "Exwv. 4 Tul • Τραγῳδοί, sub. χόροι 8 Ταινία. • Active construction. 10 Επι 11 Ἐκ τοῦ μέσου ἀπελθεῖν. 12 'Ekdidóval, partic. pres. act. 15 Μισθοῦσθαι, 1 aor. mid. 16 Οικόσιτος. Kußeрvýτns. N.B. The trierarch was enti 13 'Iepeiov. 14 Τὰ ἱερά. 17 Partic. pres. act. 18 23 Λάχανα. 24 Προ tled to a private cabin of his own. 19 Στρώμα. 20 Κατάστρωμα. 21 Αποτιθέναι. 22 'Owveîv, 1 aor. act. partic. κόλπιον. 25 "Orav, with conjunctive. W. Gr. Gr. § 177, b. δοῦναι, 2 aor. act. 27 Active. 26 'EK And when a friend is collecting 28 a subscription,29 on catching a distant glimpse of him,30 to turn sharply31 out of the road, [and] set off homewards. And not to buy a female attendant, but to hire a little child to accompany 32 his wife on her excursions 33 from the harem.34 And to rise and sweep out 35 his house, and to clean his couches; 36 and when he sits down, to conceal the soils of 37 the dress which he wears. 29 28 Evλλéyew, partic. pres. gen. abs. "Epavos. 30 Προϊδέσθαι partic. mid. 31 'Avaкáμπтel, 1 aor. act. partic. 32 Συνακολουθεῖν, fut. act. partic., agreeing with child.' 34 Η γυναι κεία. 35 ̓Εκκορεῖν. 6 36 Κλίνη. turn the soils and patches inwards.' 33 Αἱ ἔξοδοι. 37 Παραστρέψαι i.e.‘Το XXIII. Garrulity is a relation of prolix and disjointed * stories; and the garrulous man is prone, after seating himself close to a person whom he does not know, first to pronounce an eulogy on his own wife; then to relate the dream which he saw in the night; afterwards to detail every single article he had at his dinner. Later, when he gets into conversation,10 to say that the men of his day are very inferior to their ancestors; and that wheat has become cheap 12 in the market; and that many foreigners are in town: 13 that the sea is navigable 14 after 15 the Dionysia; that if Zeus would send rain, the plants would be better [for it]; that it is hard to live; that Damippus set up 16 the brightest torch at the Mysteries: to tell how 11 5 Λόγος. 9 Εἶτα δή. 12 "Aέios, ' Worth Equit. 597. 1 aor. act. 13 7 Διεξελθεῖν. Προχωροῦντος τοῦ πράγματος. what is asked for it,' i. e. ‘cheap.' Cf. ARISTOPH. many columns there are in the Odeum; to say, 'Yesterday I was very ill'; and ask, What day is to-morrow?' and, if any one tolerates 17 him, never to leave him. If any man wishes to be free from fever,18 he must rid himself of these fellows 19 by shaking them off 20 17 Ὑπομένειν. 18 Απύρετος. 19 Απαλλάττεσθαι. 1 aor.act. partic. Cf. ARIST. Eth. Nic. iv. 7 :— 20 Παρασείω, οὐδαμῶς ἂν ἁρμόζοι τῷ μεγαλοψύχῳ φεύγειν παρασείσαντι. XXIV. Many persons have come to me, jurymen, wondering that I impeached1 the cornfactors in the senate, and declaring that you, even if you believe them to be criminals3 in the highest degree, consider1 that I am playing the informer 5 full as much as those who make [professional] speeches on these [subjects]. I wish, therefore, to speak first of those [reasons] whereby I have been constrained to impeach them. When the Prytanees referred their case to the senate, they were so incensed against them, that some of the orators declared that we ought1 to hand them over 9 untried 10 to the Eleven, to punish them with death. But I, believing it to be monstrous11 that the senate should be habituated to do such things as this, rose and declared that I thought 12 we ought to try the cornfactors according to the law; deeming that if they had committed 13 acts deserving death, you would recognise 14 the claims of justice 15 1 Indicative; on indic. in oratio obliqua, see JELF, Gr. Gr. § 886. 3 'Αδικείν. 4 Ως μάλιστα. 5 Συκοφαντεῖν. Οργίζεσθαι, 11 Δεινόν. 2 Σιτοπώλης. 6 "Οθεν. 12 7 'Αποδιδόναι, used absolutely, περὶ αὐτῶν. 9 1 aor. pass. " 10 Ακριτος. Gr. § 885. 15 Τὰ δίκαια. 8 18 no less than ourselves; and that, if they are doing no wrong, it is not right that they should perish untried. The Senate having assented to 16 this, they attempted to calumniate1 me [by] declaring that I was employing1 these arguments for 19 the protection of the cornfactors. On this, I defended myself by my own conduct,20 when their trial 21 was going on, before the senate; for, while others maintained 22 silence, I rose and impeached them, and rendered it evident to every one that I was not speaking in their behalf, but that I was vindicating 23 the established laws. 16 Пeidoμai, 1 aor. pass. partic. gen. abs. eiobai, imperf. 19 Ούνεκα. gen. abs. 20 to "Epyw. 17 Διαβάλλειν. 18 Ποι 22 * Αγειν, 23 Bondeiv, imperf. XXV. 'First mount the tribune,' and tell me, Are you a resident alien?' 'Yes, I am.' 'Do you live as a resident alien on condition of obeying the laws of the state, or with the option of doing whatsoever you may please?' 'On condition of obeying.' 'Do you deserve," then, anything but death, if you have done anything contrary to those laws, by whose sanction death is the penalty?' 'I deserve death.'7 8 'Answer me, then: Do you confess that you bought up more corn than fifty measures,9 which the law declares to be lawful?' 1 Αναβαίνειν, 2 aor. imperat. Vid. LIDD. and SCOTT, in voce. 3 'Qs, with future partic. 4Ο τι ἂν, with conjunc6 'Ep' ois. 2 Μετοικεῖν. tive. W. Gr. Gr. § 177, b. * Αξιόω. • Φορμός. 7 Εγωγε |