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It is essential that at the outset I should explain to you the
circumstances to which you owe the secure possession of the Chersonese, for in the light of that knowledge
you will get a clear perception of the wrong that has been committed. The
circumstances, men of Athens, are
these. On the demise of Cotys three persons instead of one became kings of
Thrace—Berisades, Amadocus, and Cersobleptes; and the natural result
was that they competed with one another and that they all flattered you and
courted your favour.
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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