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Thereafter,
when Cephisodotus had been discharged from his command, and you held the view
that the convention made with him was improper and unfair, Miltocythes, who had
been consistently well-affected to you, was betrayed by Smicythion, and fell
into the hands of our honest friend. Knowing that the man's life would be spared
if he were taken to Cersobleptes,—for killing one another is not
customary among the Thracians,—Charidemus handed him over to your
enemies the Cardians. They took Miltocythes and his son, put out in a ship to
deep water, cut the boy's throat, and then threw the father overboard, after he
had witnessed the murder of his son.
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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