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Our mutual hostility has become so acute that, when I
wanted to convey my fleet to the Hellespont, I was compelled to escort it with my army through
the Chersonese, because your settlers
there were at war with us in accordance with the decree of Polycrates,1 backed up by your resolutions, and
your general was inciting the Byzantines and publicly announcing that your
orders were to make war on me, if he got the chance. In spite of this
provocation, I kept my hands off the fleets and the territory of your state,
though I was strong enough to seize most, if not all, of these, and I have not
ceased to appeal to you to have the points in dispute between us settled by
arbitration.
1 Unknown; apparently the author of the decree by which the colony was sent out.
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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