by Demosthenes
[8] When, therefore, the money was paid out, the bank recorded as debtor Timotheus, who had requested the loan, but made a memorandum in the name of Antimachus, to whom Timotheus had ordered the money to be paid, and also named Autonomus, whom Antimachus had sent to the bank to receive the money, the amount being one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols. The first loan, then, which Timotheus contracted at the time of his going to sea, when he was serving as general the second time, was for this amount.
[9] ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀπεχειροτονήθη μὲν ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν στρατηγὸς διὰ τὸ μὴ περιπλεῦσαι Πελοπόννησον, ἐπὶ κρίσει δὲ παρεδέδοτο εἰς τὸν δῆμον αἰτίας τῆς μεγίστης τυχών, ἐφειστήκει δὲ αὐτῷ Καλλίστρατος καὶ Ἰφικράτης, τῷ τε πράττειν καὶ εἰπεῖν δυνάμενοι, οὕτω δὲ διέθεσαν ὑμᾶς κατηγοροῦντες τούτου αὐτοί τε καὶ οἱ συναγορεύοντες αὐτοῖς,
[9] Again, when you had removed him from his command as general because he failed to sail round the Peloponnesus, and he had been given over to the popular assembly for trial under a very heavy charge, when he was being prosecuted by Callistratus and Iphicrates, men of power both in action and in speech, and they and their fellow-pleaders so influenced your minds by their accusations against him
[10] ὥστε Ἀντίμαχον μὲν ταμίαν ὄντα καὶ πιστότατα διακείμενον τούτῳ κρίναντες ἐν τῷ δήμῳ ἀπεκτείνατε καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ἐδημεύσατε, αὐτὸν δὲ τοῦτον ἐξαιτουμένων τῶν ἐπιτηδείων καὶ οἰκείων αὐτοῦ ἁπάντων, ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ἀλκέτου καὶ Ἰάσονος, συμμάχων ὄντων ὑμῖν, μόλις μὲν ἐπείσθητε ἀφεῖναι,
[10] that you condemned and put to death Antimachus, his treasurer and a man most devoted to him, — yes, and confiscated his property; while Timotheus himself, thanks to the intercession of all his friends and relatives, and also of Alcetas and Jason, who were allies of yours, you were reluctantly induced to pardon, but you deposed him from his command; —
[11] στρατηγοῦντα δὲ αὐτὸν ἐπαύσατε, — ἐν τοιαύταις δὲ ὢν διαβολαῖς καὶ ἀπορίᾳ χρημάτων πολλῇ （ἡ μὲν γὰρ οὐσία ὑπόχρεως ἦν ἅπασα, καὶ ὅροι αὐτῆς ἕστασαν, καὶ ἄλλοι ἐκράτουν: ὁ μὲν ἐν πεδίῳ ἀγρὸς ἀποτίμημα τῷ παιδὶ τῷ Εὐμηλίδου καθειστήκει, ἑξήκοντα δὲ τριηράρχοις τοῖς συνεκπλεύσασιν αὐτῷ ἑπτὰ μνῶν ἑκάστῳ ἡ ἄλλη οὐσία ὑπέκειτο, ἃς οὗτος αὐτοὺς στρατηγῶν ἠνάγκασε τοῖς ναύταις τροφὴν διαδοῦναι:
[11] such were the charges under which he lay, and he was in desperate need of money. For all his property had been mortgaged, pillars had been set up on it, and other people were in control. His farm in the plain had been taken over as security by the son of Eumelidas; the rest of his property was mortgaged, for seven minae each, to the sixty trierarchs who set out on the voyage with him, which money he as admiral had forced them to distribute among their crews for maintenance.
[12] ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀποχειροτονηθεὶς ἐν τῷ λόγῳ ἀπήνεγκεν ἐκ τῶν στρατιωτικῶν χρημάτων αὐτὸς δεδωκὼς εἰς τὰς ναῦς τὰς ἑπτὰ μνᾶς ταύτας τότε, φοβούμενος μὴ καταμαρτυρήσωσιν αὑτοῦ οἱ τριήραρχοι καὶ ἐξελέγχηται ψευδόμενος, δάνεισμα ποιεῖται ἰδίᾳ παρ᾽ ἑκάστου αὐτῶν τὰς ἑπτὰ μνᾶς καὶ ὑποτίθησιν αὐτοῖς τὴν οὐσίαν, ἃς νῦν αὐτοὺς ἀποστερεῖ καὶ τοὺς ὅρους ἀνέσπακεν）,
[12] When he was deposed, he reported in the account which he rendered, that he had at that time himself given those seven minae for the ships from the military fund, but, fearing lest the trierarchs should give evidence against him and he should be convicted of lying, he borrowed privately from each one of them seven minae, and gave them a mortgage on his property. Yet he is now seeking to rob them of this money, and he has dug up the pillars.
[13] πανταχόθεν δὲ ἀπορούμενος, καὶ ἐν ἀγῶνι τῷ μεγίστῳ καθεστηκὼς περὶ τοῦ σώματος διὰ τὸ συμβεβηκέναι τῇ πόλει τοιαῦτα πράγματα, ἄμισθον μὲν τὸ στράτευμα καταλελύσθαι ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ, πολιορκεῖσθαι δὲ τοὺς περὶ Πελοπόννησον συμμάχους ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων, κατηγορούντων δὲ τοῦτον αἴτιον εἶναι τῆς παρούσης ἀτυχίας Ἰφικράτους καὶ Καλλιστράτου, ἔτι δὲ τῶν ἀφικνουμένων ἀπὸ στρατεύματος ἀπαγγελλόντων ἐν τῷ δήμῳ τὴν παροῦσαν ἔνδειαν καὶ ἀπορίαν, τὰ δὲ καὶ δι᾽ ἐπιστολῶν ἑκάστου πυνθανομένου παρὰ τῶν οἰκείων καὶ ἐπιτηδείων ὡς διέκειντο （ὧν ἀκούοντες ὑμεῖς ἐν τῷ δήμῳ τότε ἀναμνήσθητε πῶς ἕκαστος περὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν γνώμην εἶχεν:
[13] He was hard pressed on every side, his life was in extreme danger because of the gravity of the misfortunes which had befallen the state, the army in Calaureia had been broken up for want of pay, the allies around Peloponnesus were being besieged by the Lacedaemonians, Iphicrates and Callistratus were accusing him of being responsible for the present disaster, and, furthermore, those who came from the army were reporting before the assembly the distress and need that existed, and at the same time individuals kept receiving word from their relatives and friends telling of their plight. These things you all heard in the popular assembly at that time, and you remember how each man of you felt toward him; you are not without knowledge of what people were saying.
[14] οὐ γὰρ ἀγνοεῖτε τὰ λεγόμενα）, μέλλων τοίνυν καταπλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν κρίσιν, ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ δανείζεται χιλίας δραχμὰς παρὰ Ἀντιφάνους τοῦ Λαμπτρέως, ὃς ἐπέπλει ταμίας Φιλίππῳ τῷ ναυκλήρῳ, ἵνα διαδοίη τοῖς Βοιωτίοις τριηράρχοις, καὶ παραμένωσιν ἕως ἂν αὐτῷ ἡ κρίσις γένηται, καὶ μὴ καταλυθεισῶν πρότερον τῶν Βοιωτίων τριήρων καὶ διαπελθόντων τῶν στρατιωτῶν μᾶλλον αὐτῷ ὀργίζησθε ὑμεῖς.
[14] Well, then, when he was on the point of sailing home for his trial, the defendant, while still in Calaureia, borrowed from Antiphanes of Lamptrae, who sailed with Philip the shipowner as his treasurer, the sum of one thousand drachmae to distribute among the Boeotian trierarchs, that they might remain with the fleet until his trial should come off, for fear lest, if the Boeotian fleet should first be broken up and the troops scattered here and there to their homes, you might be the more incensed against him.
[15] οἱ μὲν γὰρ πολῖται ἠνείχοντο κακοπαθοῦντες καὶ παρέμενον: οἱ δὲ Βοιωτοὶ οὐκ ἔφασαν παραμενεῖν, εἰ μή τις αὐτοῖς τὴν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν τροφὴν δώσει. τότε οὖν ἀναγκαζόμενος δανείζεται τὰς χιλίας δραχμὰς παρὰ τοῦ Ἀντιφάνους, ὃς ἐπέπλει ταμιεύων Φιλίππῳ τῷ ναυκλήρῳ, καὶ δίδωσι τῷ Βοιωτίῳ ἄρχοντι τῶν νεῶν.
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br /> [15] For although our countrymen endured their privations and remained at their posts, the Boeotians declared that they would not stay, unless somebody should furnish them with their daily rations. Under stress of necessity, then, at that time he borrowed the thousand drachmae from Antiphanes, who sailed with Philip, the shipowner, as his treasurer, and gave them to the admiral of the Boeotian fleet.
[16] ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀφίκετο δεῦρο, ἀπῄτουν αὐτὸν ὅ τε Φίλιππος καὶ Ἀντιφάνης τὰς χιλίας δραχμὰς ἃς ἐδανείσατο ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ, καὶ ἠγανάκτουν ὅτι οὐ ταχὺ ἀπελάμβανον. φοβούμενος δὲ οὗτος τοὺς ἐχθροὺς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ, μὴ πύθοιντο ὅτι, ἃς ἐν τῷ λόγῳ ἀπήνεγκεν χιλίας δραχμὰς δεδωκὼς εἰς τὰς Βοιωτίας ναῦς ἐκ τῶν στρατιωτικῶν χρημάτων,
[16] But when he got back to Athens, both Philip and Antiphanes demanded of him the thousand drachmae which he had borrowed in Calaureia, and were angry at not receiving their money at once. Timotheus, then, fearing that his enemies might learn that the thousand drachmae, which in his report he stated he had paid for the Boeotian fleet out of the military fund, had in fact been lent by Philip, who could not get them back,
[17] ταύτας Φίλιππος δανείσας ἀποστερεῖται, καὶ ἅμα δεδιὼς τὸν Φίλιππον, μὴ καταμαρτυροίη αὑτοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀγῶνι, προσελθὼν τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἐμῷ ἐδεήθη ἀπαλλάξαι τὸν Φίλιππον καὶ χρῆσαι αὑτῷ τὰς χιλίας δραχμάς, ἵνα ἀποδοίη Φιλίππῳ. ὁρῶν δὲ ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐμὸς τό τε μέγεθος τοῦ ἀγῶνος ἡλίκον ἦν τούτῳ, καὶ ὡς ἠπορεῖτο οὗτος, καὶ ἐλεῶν αὐτόν, προσαγαγὼν πρὸς τὴν τράπεζαν ἐκέλευσεν ἀποδοῦναι Φιλίππῳ χιλίας δραχμὰς τὸν Φορμίωνα τὸν ἐπικαθήμενον ἐπὶ τῇ τραπέζῃ, καὶ γράψαι ὀφείλοντα Τιμόθεον.
[17] and fearing also that Philip might give testimony against him at his trial, came to my father and begged him to settle with Philip, and to lend him the thousand drachmae to pay Philip. And my father, seeing the seriousness of the trial in which the defendant was involved, and in what plight he was, felt pity for him, and, taking him to the bank, bade Phormio, who was cashier, to pay Philip the thousand drachmae, and to enter on the books Timotheus as owing that amount.
[18] καὶ ταῦτα ὅτι ἀληθῆ ἐστιν, τὸν δόντα τὸ ἀργύριον Φορμίωνα ὑμῖν μάρτυρα παρέξομαι, ἐπειδὰν καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἄλλου συμβολαίου διηγήσωμαι ὑμῖν, ἵνα τῇ αὐτῇ μαρτυρίᾳ περὶ ὅλου τοῦ χρέως ἀκούσαντες εἰδῆτε ὅτι ἀληθῆ λέγω. καλῶ δ᾽ ὑμῖν καὶ τὸν Ἀντιφάνην τὸν δανείσαντα τὸ ἀργύριον τούτῳ, τὰς χιλίας δραχμάς, ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ, καὶ παρόντα ὅτε ἀπέλαβε Φίλιππος τὸ ἀργύριον παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἐνθάδε.
[18] To prove that these statements are true, I shall bring forward Phormio, who paid the money, as a witness, as soon as I shall have explained to you the other loan, in order that, being informed through the same deposition about the whole of the debt, you may know that I am speaking the truth. I shall also call before you Antiphanes, who lent the sum of one thousand drachmae to the defendant in Calaureia, and who was present when Philip received payment of the money from my father here in Athens.
[19] τοῦ μὲν γὰρ μαρτυρίαν με ἐμβαλέσθαι πρὸς τὸν διαιτητὴν παρεκρούσατο, φάσκων ἀεί μοι μαρτυρήσειν εἰς τὴν κυρίαν: ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡ δίαιτα ἦν, προσκληθεὶς ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκίας （οὐ γὰρ ἦν φανερός）, ἔλιπε τὴν μαρτυρίαν πεισθεὶς ὑπὸ τούτου. τιθέντος δέ μου αὐτῷ τὴν δραχμὴν τοῦ λιπομαρτυρίου κατὰ τὸν νόμον, ὁ διαιτητὴς οὐ κατεδιῄτα, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπιὼν ᾤχετο ἀποδιαιτήσας τούτου τὴν δίαιταν, ἑσπέρας ἤδη οὔσης.
[19] That I did not put the deposition in the box before the arbitrator was due to a trick of Antiphanes, who kept saying that he would give evidence for me on the day set for the decision; but when the hearing was in progress before the arbitrator, although he was summoned from his house （for he was nowhere to be seen）, he was persuaded by Timotheus to fail to appear as a witness. On my depositing a drachma in his name on a charge of failing to appear, as the law prescribes, the arbitrator did not make an award against the defendant, but decided in his favor, and then went off, for it was already late.
[20] νυνὶ δὲ τῷ Ἀντιφάνει εἴληχα βλάβης ἰδίαν δίκην, ὅτι μοι οὔτ᾽ ἐμαρτύρησεν οὔτ᾽ ἐξωμόσατο κατὰ τὸν νόμον. καὶ ἀξιῶ αὐτὸν ἀναβάντα εἰπεῖν ἐναντίον ὑμῶν διομοσάμενον, πρῶτον μὲν εἰ ἐδάνεισε Τιμοθέῳ ἐν Καλαυρείᾳ χιλίας δραχμάς, δεύτερον δ᾽ εἰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς Φίλιππος ἀπέλαβεν ἐνθάδε τοῦτο τὸ ἀργύριον.
[20] Now, however, I have entered suit on my own account for damages against Antiphanes because he neither gave testimony for me, nor asked under oath for a postponement, as the law provides. And I demand of him that he get up and state under oath before you, first, whether he lent Timotheus a thousand drachmae in Calaureia, and secondly, whether Philip received here payment of that sum from my father.
[21] σχεδὸν μὲν οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς οὗτος ὡμολόγει πρὸς τῷ διαιτητῇ ἀποδοῦναι τῷ Φιλίππῳ τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν τὰς χιλίας δραχμάς, οὐ μέντοι αὑτῷ γέ φησιν δανεῖσαι, ἀλλὰ τῷ Βοιωτίῳ ναυάρχῳ, καὶ ὑποθεῖναί φησιν αὐτὸν τούτου τοῦ ἀργυρίου χαλκόν. ὡς δὲ οὐκ ἀληθῆ ἔλεγεν, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτὸς δανεισάμενος ἀποστερεῖ, ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς διδάξω, ἐπειδὰν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν ὀφείλει καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ὑμῖν διηγήσωμαι.
[21] The defendant himself practically admitted before the arbitrator that my father paid Philip the thousand drachmae; but he declared that it was not to him （Timotheus） that my father lent the money, but to the Boeotian admiral, who, he alleges, gave some copper as security for the sum. However, that in this he was not stating the truth, but that he borrowed the money himself and is seeking to avoid payment, I shall prove to you, when I shall have informed you in detail regarding his other debts also.
[22] ἀφικομένου γὰρ Ἀλκέτου καὶ Ἰάσονος ὡς τοῦτον ἐν τῷ μαιμακτηριῶνι μηνὶ τῷ ἐπ᾽ Ἀστείου ἄρχοντος ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν τούτου, βοηθησόντων αὐτῷ, καὶ καταγομένων εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τὴν ἐν Πειραιεῖ τὴν ἐν τῇ Ἱπποδαμείᾳ ἑσπέρας ἤδη οὔσης, ἀπορούμενος ὑποδέξασθαι αὐτούς, πέμψας ὡς τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν Αἰσχρίωνα τὸν ἀκόλουθον τὸν αὑτοῦ, ἐκέλευσεν αἰτήσασθαι στρώματα καὶ ἱμάτια καὶ φιάλας ἀργυρᾶς δύο, καὶ μνᾶν ἀργυρίου δανείσασθαι.
[22] In the month Maimacterion in the archonship of Asteius, Alcetas and Jason came to visit Timotheus to b
e present at his trial and give him their support, and they arrived at his house in Peiraeus in the Hippodameia when it was already evening. Being at a loss how to entertain them, he sent his body servant Aeschrion to my father and bade him ask for the loan of some bedding and cloaks and two silver bowls and to borrow a mina of silver.
[23] ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐμὸς τοῦ Αἰσχρίωνος τοῦ ἀκολούθου τοῦ τούτου τούς τε ἀφιγμένους καὶ τὴν χρείαν εἰς ἣν ᾐτεῖτο, ἐφ᾽ ἅ τε ἦλθεν ἔχρησεν, καὶ τὴν μνᾶν τοῦ ἀργυρίου, ἣν ἐδανείζετο, ἐδάνεισεν. ἀπολελυμένῳ τοίνυν τῆς αἰτίας πολλὴ συνέβαινεν αὐτῷ μετὰ ταῦτα χρημάτων ἀπορία εἴς τε τὰς ἰδίας χρείας καὶ εἰς τὰς δημοσίας εἰσφοράς, ἃ ὁρῶν ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐμὸς οὐκ ἐτόλμα τοῦτον εὐθὺς ἀπαιτεῖν τὸ ἀργύριον: