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You are all aware that,
after conceding the right to amend the peace, he now denies it. He says that
Amphipolis is his, because
your decree that he should keep what he held confirmed his right. It is true
that you passed that decree, but you never admitted his right to Amphipolis, for it is possible to
“hold” what belongs to another, and it is not all
“holders” who hold what is their own, but many are in
possession of what is really another's. So his clever quibble is merely foolish.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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