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Do you not see
that his letter to you is all carefully calculated, so that his words and his
actions may appear to conform to the universal standard of justice, while he has
really shown supreme contempt for it in claiming for himself and denying to you
territory which is yours by common consent and decree of the Greeks and of the
King of Persia?1
1 This refers to the amended rescript obtained by the Athenians from the king in 366. See Dem. 19.137.
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