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Observe from
and to what points he crossed the straits; it was from Abydus to Sestus. Do you suppose that the
Abydenes and the Sestians would have admitted him, if they had not been privy to
his fraud, when he sent you that letter?—Now read to the jury the
letter itself.—Observe, men of Athens, with what extravagance of self-commendation he wrote to
you, telling you he had done this, and undertaking to do
that.—Read.“
Letter
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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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