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Although, then, it is
abundantly clear that there is not a sincere word in all his professions of
attachment to Athens, yet, if it is
not already clear from these facts, it will be more evident in the light of
later events. Cotys, I am glad to say,—for he was your enemy, and a
bad man,—was killed by Pytho;
Cersobleptes, the present king, was a mere boy, and so were all the sons of
Cotys; and Charidemus had got control of affairs, because he was on the spot and
had a force at his back. Cephisodotus, the man to whom he sent the famous
letter, had arrived in command of an army, and so had the galleys, which were to
have rescued him, even without the consent of Artabazus, when his deliverance
was in doubt.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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