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You see how
testimony comes in from every quarter that, when he crossed the straits, he was
not marching to attack Cotys but to join Cotys in attacking us. Now here is just
one letter more that you must read; but never mind the rest. For it has, I
suppose, become quite clear now that he has cheated you. Read.“
Letter
”Stop. Now reflect how, after writing that
he would recover the Chersonesus, he
took the pay of your enemies, and tried to rob you of your remaining possessions
there; and how, after writing that Alexander had sent envoys to him but that he
had refused to see them, he was found behaving exactly like Alexander's
filibusters. So much for your single-minded well-wisher; the man who is
incapable of writing lies or practising deceit!
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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