Phocion

How to use Phocion in a sentence

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

  Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks | Edward Wortley Montagu

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

  Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks | Edward Wortley Montagu

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

  The Story of the Greeks | H. A. Guerber

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 3 | Various

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 | Various