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In the first place, when Nicias, my herald, was kidnapped1 from my territory, you
not only failed to bring the law-breakers to justice, but you kept the victim a
prisoner for ten months, and the letters from me, of which he was the bearer,
you read before your Assembly. Next, when the Thasians opened their harbor to
the Byzantine war-galleys and to any pirates that chose to touch there, you
ignored the incident, in spite of the clauses expressly denouncing such acts as
hostile.
1 Nothing is known of this incident. The letters were obviously not intended for Athenian ears.
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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