Phocion
Americannoun
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In duty fixed, Here I remain'd, while my brave, gen'rous Phocion, Fled with my child, and from his mother's arms Bore my sweet little one.
From The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy
The most pleasing, however, among the wives of great Athenians is the wife of Phocion, the incorruptible, as she is presented to us in the pages of Plutarch.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
I've been too rash; revive, my love, revive; Thy Phocion calls; the gods will guard Evander, And save him to reward thy matchless virtue.
From The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy
The fact is, as I have already said, that while Phocion, the enemy of the democratic policy, is above all suspicion, both contemporaries and survivors had their doubts about Demosthenes.
From Problems in Greek history by John Pentland Mahaffy
As for Phocion, he did not deem it honest to accept the gold sent to him by Alexander.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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