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However, if I may mention two instances to the
exclusion of the rest, you gave your citizenship to Evagoras1 of Cyprus and to
Dionysius2 of Syracuse, to
them and their descendants. Now, if you can persuade either of these peoples to
restore their exiled tyrants, then you may apply to me for as much of Thrace as was ruled by Teres and Cersobleptes.
But if you have not a word to say against those who overthrew Evagoras and
Dionysius, but persist in harassing me, have I not a perfect right to defend
myself against you?
1 If this is the younger Evagoras, Philip's history is inaccurate. He was expelled from Cyprus, and helped Artaxerxes to recover the island after the revolt, but he was never reinstated. His grandfather, of the same name, the friend and helper of Conon, was made an Athenian citizen.
2 The younger, expelled by Dion in 356 and by Timoleon in 343.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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