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onest advice, if not, it will be just of them.” But when hefound them persisting and shouting to him to lead them out,he commanded the crier to make proclamation, that all theAthenians under sixty should instantly provide themselveswith five days’ provision, and follow him from the assembly._ This caused a great tumult. Those in years were startled, and_ clamoured against the order; he demanded wherein he injured_ them, “ For I,” says he, ‘““am now fourscore, and am ready- to lead you.” This succeeded in pacifying them for thepresent.- But when Micion, with a large force of Macedonians and~ mercenaries, began to pillage the sea-coast, having made a- descent upon Rhamnus, and overrun the neighbouring country,Phocion led out the Athenians to attack him. And when sundryprivate persons came, intermeddling with his dispositions, andtelling him that he ought to occupy such or such a hill, detachthe cavalry in this or that direction, engage the enemy on thispoint or that, ‘‘ O Hercules,” said he, ‘‘ how many generals have* we here, and how few soldiers!” Afterwards, having formedthe battle, one who wished to show his bravery advanced outof his post before the rest, but on the enemy’s approaching, lost- heart, and retired back into his rank. ‘“ Young man,” said_ Phocion, “are you not ashamed twice in one day to desert- your station, first that on which I had placed you, and secondly_ that on which you had placed yourself? ”? However, he entirelyrouted the enemy, killing Micion and many more on the spot._ The Grecian army, also, in Thessaly, after Leonnatus and the- Macedonians who came with him out of Asia had arrived andjoined Antipater, fought and beat them in a battle. Leonnatuswas killed in the fight, Antiphilus commanding the foot, andMenon, the Thessalian, the horse. But not long after, Craterus crossed from Asia with numerousforces; a pitched battle was fought at Cranon; the Greeks werebeaten; though not, indeed, in a signal defeat, nor with anygreat loss of men. But what with their want of obedience to _ their commanders, who were young and over-indulgent with _ them, and what with Antipater’s tampering and treating withtheir separate cities, one by one, the end of it was that the armywas dissolved, and the Greeks shamefully surrendered theliberty of their country. Upon the news of Antipater’s now advancing at once againstAthens, with all his force, Demosthenes and Hyperides desertedthe city, and Demades, who was altogether insolvent for any
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