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Observe that
he claimed the right to take the port-dues and the ten-per-cent customs-duties;
that he again talked as though the whole country belonged to him, requiring that
the duties should be under the control of his own custom-house officers; and
that, though he had taken his oath to Athenodorus that he would surrender the
son of Iphiades, the hostage whom he held on behalf of Sestus, he now does not
even promise to surrender him.—Take the decree which the Athenians
adopted in this emergency. Read it.“
Decree
”
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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