A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

4. An Athenian, who was put to death together with Phocion (B. C. 318), to whom he had always been attached by the warmest personal friendship: on which account he begged as a last favour to be allowed to drink the poison before his illustrious friend, a request which Phocion unwillingly conceded. (Plut. Ploc. 35, 36.)