Kitap 2
3.13
Again, vengeance previously taken upon one person appeases anger against another, even though it be greater. Wherefore Philocrates,Opponent of Demosthenes, and one of the pro-Macedonian party. Impeached for his share in the disastrous Peace of Philocrates, he went into exile and was condemned to death during his absence. when someone asked him why he did not justify himself when the people were angry with him, made the judicious reply, Not yet. When then? When I see someone accused of the same offence; for men grow mild when they have exhausted their anger upon another, as happened in the case of Ergophilus.Ergophilus failed in an attack on Cotys, king of Thrace, while Callisthenes concluded a premature peace with Perdiccas, king of Macedonia. For although the Athenians were more indignant with him than with Callisthenes, they acquitted him, because they had condemned CalIicrates to death on the previous day.
3.14
Men also grow mild towards those whom they pityAnother reading is ἐὰν ἕλωσι, if they have convicted him. This is adopted by Roemer, who refers to Plat. Rep. 558a, where, in speaking of the freedom allowed to all who live under a democracy, it is remarked that, even if a man is convicted by a court of justice, he takes no heed of the sentence, which is very often not enforced.; and if an offender has suffered greater evil than those who are angry would have inflicted, for they have an idea that they have as it were obtained reparation.
