[3]
Furthermore, about the same date,
Diopithes1 attacked
Crobyle and Tiristasis and enslaved the inhabitants, laying waste the adjacent
parts of Thrace. But his crowning act
of lawlessness was the arrest of Amphilochus, the ambassador sent to negotiate
for the captives; he subjected him to the severest torture and wrung from him a
ransom of nine talents. And this he did with the approval of your Assembly.
1 See Dem. 8. Crobyle is not mentioned elsewhere; Tiristasis was in the Chersonese.
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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