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I beg you, in Heaven's name, to consider this point:
why is there no man in Byzantium
to dissuade his country-men from seizing Chalcedon, which belongs to the King and was once held by you,
while the Byzantines have no shadow of a claim to it? Or from taking Selymbria, once an ally of yours, and
making it tributary to themselves, and including it in the territory of
Byzantium, contrary to all
oaths and agreements which guarantee the autonomy of those cities?
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