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To prove
that there is precedent both for my proposal to free the Rhodians and for your
action, if you adopt it, I will remind you of some things that you have done,
and that successfully. You are the men, Athenians, who once sent Timotheus to
the help of Ariobarzanes,1 adding this clause to your instructions,
“provided that he does not violate our treaty with the
King.” Timotheus, seeing that Ariobarzanes was in open revolt from the
King and that Samos was garrisoned by
Cyprothemis, who had been stationed there by Tigranes, the King's viceroy,
abandoned his intention of helping the satrap, but invested the island and used
his force to liberate it;
1 The satrap of Phrygia, who joined the revolt of the satraps in 362. He was soon afterwards betrayed and crucified.
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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