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“Letter[Philip, King of Macedonia, to the Council and People of Athens, greeting.—Your
ambassadors, Cephisophon and Democritus and Polycritus, visited me and
discussed the release of the vessels commanded by Leodamas. Now, speaking
generally, it seems to me that you will be very simple people if you imagine
that I do not know that the vessels were sent ostensibly to convey corn from
the Hellespont to Lemnos, but really to help the
Selymbrians, who are being besieged by me and are not included in the
articles of friendship mutually agreed upon between us.”
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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