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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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26 Plutarch’s Lives

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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lying from the city. Phocion, with a few of his friends thatstayed with him, went over to Polysperchon, and out of respectfor him, Solon of Platza, and Dinarchus of Corinth, who werereputed friends and confidants of Polysperchon, accompaniedhim. But on account of Dinarchus falling ill, they remainedseveral days in Elatea, during which time, upon the persuasionof Agnonides and on the motion of Archestratus, a decree passedthat the people should send delegates thither to accuse Phocion.So both parties reached Polysperchon at the same time, whowas going through the country with the king, and was then at asmall village of Phocis, Pharygez, under the mountain now called ~Galate, but then Acrurium. There Polysperchon, having set up the golden canopy, andseated the king and his company under it, ordered Dinarchus atonce to be taken, and tortured, and put to death; and that done,gave audience to the Athenians, who filled the place with noiseand tumult, accusing and recriminating on one another, till atlast Agnonides came forward, and requested they might all beshut up together in one cage, and conveyed to Athens, there todecide the controversy. At that the king could not forbearsmiling, but the company that attended, for their own amuse-ment, Macedonians and strangers, were eager to hear the alter-cation, and made signs to the delegates to go on with their caseat once. But it was no sort of fair hearing. Polysperchonfrequently interrupted Phocion, till at last Phocion struck hisstaff on the ground and declined to speak further. And whenHegemon said, Polysperchon himself could bear witness to hisaffection for the people, Polysperchon cailed out fiercely, ‘“‘ Giveover slandering me to the king,” and the king starting up wasabout to haverun him through with his javelin, but Polysperchoninterposed and hindered him; so that the assembly dissolved. Phocion, then, and those about him, were seized; those of hisfriends that were not immediately by him, on seeing this, hidtheir faces, and saved themselves by flight. The rest Clitustook and brought to Athens, to be submitted to trial; but, intruth, as men already sentenced to die. The manner of convey-ing them was indeed extremely moving; they were carried inchariots through the Ceramicus, straight to the place of judica-ture, where Clitus secured them till they had convoked anassembly of the people, which was open to all comers, neitherforeigners, nor slaves, nor those who had been punished withdisfranchisement being refused admittance, but all alike, bothmen and women, being allowed to come into the court, and even
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