Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 5

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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.

Apollodorus Against Polycles. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Apollodorus Against Polycles for Expenses Incurred while Serving as Trierarch (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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[5] Μιλτοκύθης δὲ ἀφειστήκει ἀπὸ Κότυος καὶ πρέσβεις ἐπεπόμφει περὶ συμμαχίας, βοηθεῖν κελεύων καὶ τὴν Χερρόνησον ἀποδιδούς, Προκοννήσιοι δὲ σύμμαχοι ὄντες ἱκέτευον ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ δήμῳ βοηθῆσαι αὑτοῖς, λέγοντες ὅτι ὑπὸ Κυζικηνῶν κατέχονται τῷ πολέμῳ καὶ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν, καὶ μὴ περιιδεῖν ἀπολομένους·

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Apollodorus Against Polycles

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 Apollodorus Against Polycles 5

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