Phocion

[ foh-shee-uhn, -on ]

noun

1. 402?–317 b.c., Athenian statesman and general.

Example Sentences

The Athenians, sensible of their folly, displaced Chares, and gave the command to Phocion.

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Phocion was not only insulted, but excluded from all share in the command of the army by the infatuated people.

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Although honest, Phocion was not very clever, and his caution little by little became cowardice.

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He was not a Phocion, for he never became the tool of a foreign power.

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The latter, through their general Phocion, rescued it from the tyrants suborned by Philip of Macedon (354 and 341).

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