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When we got there, and were
besieging these gentry, he marched right across the Chersonesus,—your property, every yard of
it,—attacked us, and tried to rescue the robbers and pirates. He took
up his position, and persuaded or constrained your commander not to serve your
interests, instead of letting himself be persuaded by him to carry out some part
of his covenant and undertaking; and then he must needs draw up that convention
with Cephisodotus, by which you were so deeply annoyed and exasperated that you
dismissed your commander, and fined him five talents, and there was a majority
of three votes only against a sentence of death.
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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