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I am informed that
Aristocrates will also say something to the same effect as a speech once made in
the Assembly by Aristomachus,—that it is inconceivable that
Cersobleptes would ever deliberately provoke your enmity by trying to rob you of
the Chersonesus, because, even if he
should take it and hold it, it will be of no use to him. Indeed when that
country is not at war, its revenue is no more than thirty talents, and when it
is at war, not a single talent. On the other hand the revenue of his ports,
which, in the event supposed, would be blockaded, is more than two hundred
talents. They wonder,—as they will put it,—what he could
possibly mean by preferring small returns and a war with you, when he might get
larger returns and be your friend.
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