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First of all, he was hired by Iphicrates, and drew
pay in his army for more than three years. When you had cashiered Iphicrates,
and dispatched Timotheus as commander-in-chief to Amphipolis and the Chersonesus, the man's first performance was
to surrender to the Amphipolitans those hostages of theirs whom Iphicrates had
taken from Harpalus, and put under his care, although you had ordered them to be
conveyed to Athens. That act
prevented you from occupying Amphipolis. Secondly, when Timotheus in his turn wanted to hire
him and his troops, he refused the engagement, and repaired by sea to Cotys,
taking with him your light galleys, though he was perfectly well aware that
Cotys was the most bitter enemy you had in the world.
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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