Phocion

a distinguished A then i an general and statesman, a disciple of Plato and Xenocrates; was wise in council as well as brave in war; opposed to the democracy of Athens, led on by Demosthenes in the frantic ambition of coping with Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander; and pled for a pacific arrangement with them; but having opposed war with Anti pater, the succe or of the latter, he was accused of treason, and condemned to drink hemlock; the A then i ans afterwards repented of the crime, raised a bronze statue to his memory, and condemned his accuser to death.