[28] When Iphicrates had come into this region—with a few ships at first, for the purpose of examining into the situation rather than of laying siege to the city—
Then, said I,
your mother Eurydice sent for him, and according to the testimony of all who were present, she put your brother Perdiccas into the arms of Iphicrates, and set you upon his knees—for you were a little boy—and said,
Amyntas, the father of these little children, when he was alive, made you his son,
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and enjoyed the friendship of the city of
Athens
; we have a right therefore to consider you in your private capacity a brother of these boys, and in your public capacity a friend to us.
On the Embassy. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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