Apollodorus Against Polycles for Expenses Incurred while Serving as Trierarch (3-5)

All you who were in the army and were present in the campaign, call to mind and tell to those who sit by you my own efforts and the troubles and distresses in which the state was involved at that crisis, in order that you may know from this evidence what manner of man I am in carrying out the orders you lay upon me. And all of you who stayed at home, listen to me in silence, while I set forth before you all the facts, and produce in support of every statement that I make the laws and decrees both of the senate and the people, and the testimony of witnesses.

On the twenty-fourth day of the month Metageitnion[*] in the archonship of Molon,[*] when an assembly had been held and tidings of many serious events had been brought before you, you voted that the trierarchs (of whom I was one) should launch their ships. It is not necessary for me to go into details regarding the crisis which had at that time befallen the state; you of yourselves know that Tenos[*] had been seized by Alexander, and its people had been reduced to slavery;

that Miltocythes[*] 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,[*] your allies, were requesting you in the assembly to come to their aid, stating that the Cyzicenes[*] were pressing them hard in war by both land and sea, and imploring you not to look idly on while they perished.