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“Decree of the
Byzantines[In the
recordership of Bosporichus, Damagetus proposed in the Assembly, with the
sanction of the Council, that, whereas the Athenian People in former times
have been constant friends of the Byzantines and of their allies and kinsmen
the Perinthians, and have conferred many great services upon them, and
recently, when Philip of Macedon
attacked their land and city to exterminate the Byzantines and Perinthians,
burning and devastating the land, they came to our aid with a hundred and
twenty ships and provisions and arms and infantry, and extricated us from
great dangers, and restored our original constitution and our laws and our
sepulchres,”
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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