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[5] that Miltocythes1 had revolted from Cotys, and had sent ambassadors regarding an alliance, begging you to send troops to his aid, and offering to restore the Chersonesus; that the Proconnesians,2 your allies, were requesting you in the assembly to come to their aid, stating that the Cyzicenes3 were pressing them hard in war by both land and sea, and imploring you not to look idly on while they perished.

1 Miltocythes was a vassal of Cotys, king of the Odrysae in Thrace, a former friend, but now an enemy of Athens.

2 Proconnesus, an island on the Propontis （Sea of Marmora）.

3 Cyzicus, a town on the southern shore of the Propontis.

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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