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When he realized what trouble he was
in, and came to the conclusion that he would be reduced by famine, if by no
other means, he made the discovery, whether by suggestion or by his own wits,
that his only chance of salvation lay where there is salvation for everybody.
And where is that? In your good-nature, if that is the right term, men of
Athens,—or call it
what you will. Having reached that conclusion, he dispatched the letter to
you,—and it is worth your while to hear it read. His desire was, by
means of a promise to recover the Chersonesus for you, and on the pretence that such was also the
wish of Cephisodotus, as an enemy of Cotys and Iphicrates, to get a supply of
galleys from you, and so scuttle safely out of Asia.
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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