TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK; WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL, AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH. BY JOHN LANGHORNE, D. D. AND WILLIAM LANGHORNE, A. M. IN SIX VOLUMES. THE THIRD EDITION, BY THE REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S. WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; J. NUNN; W. CLARKE AND SONS; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. AND A. ARCH; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN ; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; J. Richardson ; J. M. RICHARDSON; J. BOOKER; E. WILLIAMS; J. Murray; WINGRAVE AND COLLINGWOOD; BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN; J. HATCHARD; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; R. SCHOLLY; SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JwE; OGLES, DUNCAN, AND Co.; J. BOHN; E. LLOYD AND SON ; G. AND WB. WHITTAKER; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; AND WILSON AND SONE, YORK, THE LIFE OF PHOCION. SUMMARY. Phocion's glory obscured by the unhappy circumstances of the times. Difficult to govern republics in adversity. Just temperature of con duct hard to be discovered. Excessive austerity of Cato. Why compared with Phocion. Phocion's birth and character. His various observations. He serves under Chabrias; their mutual regard. He equally studies politics and war: never flatters the people. His different sayings. Reflections upon his character. Esteem entertained for him by the Athenian allies. He gains a complete victory over Philip's army in Euboea. The allies refuse to receive Chares' fleet into their harbours. Phocion appointed to supersede him. He gets possession of Megara, and advises his countrymen to make peace with Philip: is placed at the head of the administration. His opinion about the citizens demanded by Alexander. He advises that prince to turn his arms against the Persians: refuses his presents. His wife. He carries his son to Lacedæmon, to be educated in all the rigour of the ancient discipline. His conduct with respect to Harpalus: prudence on receiving intelligence of Alexander's death: opinion on the Lamian war. He defeats Micion. Victory, and subsequent defeat, of the confederate, Greeks in Thessaly. Phocion dispatched embassador to Antipater: His second embassy. The Athenians obliged to receive a Macedonian garrison. Twelve thousand citizens excluded, on account of their poverty, from a share in the government. Rigour and tyranny of Antipater. Phocion's prudence, and disinterestedness. Death of Demades and his son. Phocion renders Nicanor kind and oblig |