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e could not accept a franchise which he had been sent as anambassador to deprecate. Menyllus wished to give Phocion a considerable present ofmoney, who, thanking him, said, neither was Menyllus greaterthan Alexander, nor his own occasions more urgent to receive _ it now, than when he refused it from him. And on his pressinghim to permit his son Phocus to receive it, he replied, “ If my_ son returns to a right mind, his patrimony is sufficient; if not,- all supplies will be insufficient.’ But to Antipater he answeredmore sharply, who would have him engaged in something dis-‘honourable. ‘“ Antipater,’”’ said he, “cannot have me both as~his friend and his flatterer.”” And, indeed, Antipater was wontto say he had two friends at Athens, Phocion and Demades;+ the one would never suffer him to gratify him at all, the other_ would never be satisfied. Phocion might well think that povertya virtue, in which, after having so often been general of the- Athenians, and admitted to the friendship of potentates and= princes, he had now grown old. Demades, meantime, delighted+in lavishing his wealth even in positive transgressions of the law.*For there having been an order that no foreigner should be hiredto dance in any chorus on the penalty of a fine of one thousand‘drachmas on the exhibitor, he had the vanity to exhibit an_entire chorus of a hundred foreigners, and paid down the penalty-of a thousand drachmas a head upon the stage itself. Marrying“his son Demeas, he told him with the like vanity, ‘‘ My son,_when I married your mother, it was done so privately it was notknown to the next neighbours, but kings and princes give“presents at your nuptials.” _ The garrison in Munychia continued to be felt as a great‘gtievance, and the Athenians did not cease to be importunate‘upon Phocion, to prevail with Antipater for its removal; butwhether he despaired of effecting it, or perhaps observed thepeople to be more orderly, and public matters more reasonablyconducted by the awe that was thus created, he constantlydeclined the office, and contented himself with obtaining fromAntipater the postponement for the present of the payment ofthe sum of money in which the city was fined. So the people,leaving him off, applied themselves to Demades, who readilyundertook the employment, and took along with him his sonalso into Macedonia; and some superior power, as it seems, soordering it, he came just at that nick of time when Antipaterwas already seized with his sickness, and Cassander, taking uponjhimself the command, had found a letter of Demades’s, formerly
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