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In my regard for the interests of your city, I
offered you the island, but your statesmen urged you to refuse it as a gift and
demand it as an act of restitution, in order that, if I submit to their
dictation, I may thereby confess that I have no right to the place, but if I do
not give it up, I may arouse the suspicions of your democracy. Conscious of
this, I challenged you to submit our claims to arbitration, so that if the
island was adjudged to be mine, I might give it to you; if yours, then I might
restore it to your people.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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