Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Antipater said that he had two good friends at Athens; and of the two he had never persuaded Phocion to accept a gift, nor ever sated Demades by giving. [*](Ibid. chap. xxx. (p. 755 B).)

When Antipater required as his right that Phocion do a certain act of unrighteousness, he said, Antipater, you cannot use Phocion as a friend and flatterer both. Repeated by Plutarch in Moralia, 64 C, 142 B, 533 A; Life of Phocion, chap. xxx. (755 B); Life of Agis, chap. ii. (795 E).

The death of Antipater was followed by a democratic government at Athens, and sentence of death was passed in Assembly on Phocion and his friends. The others were led away weeping, but Phocion was proceeding in silence when one of his enemies met him and spat in his face. He looked toward the officers and said, Will not somebody make this man stop his bad manners ? [*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Phocion, chap. xxxvi. (758 D).)

When one of the men who were to die with him wept and cursed, he said, Are you not content, Thudippus, that you are to die with Phocion ? [*](Ibid.; cf. 541 C, and Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 41.)

When the cup of hemlock was already being handed to him, he was asked if he had any message for his son. I charge and exhort him, said he, not to cherish any ill feeling against the Athenians. [*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Phocion, chap. xxxvi. (758 D); Aelian, Varia Historia, xii. 49.)