Phocion

To endorse my plea I now call Eubulus as a representative of the statesmen and all honourable citizens, and Phocion as a representative of the generals, preeminent also among us all as a man of upright character.

But to prove that I am speaking the truth, please take this decree, and call Temenides and those who were my comrades in the expedition in the service of the city, and call Phocion, the general, not yet to plead for me, if it please the jury, but as a witness who cannot speak falsely without exposing himself to the libellous attacks of my prosecutor.

And Phocion, in later times, who lived above eighty years, and for most of these was general, and guarded the city in the most difficult crises, and was named "the Good" by those very men—him it did not suffice them merely to put to death, but they did not even allow his corpse to remain in Attica, but cast it out beyond the borders.

Phocion, as it is mentioned in Plutarch’s lives, said that the persons, whom Alexander demanded, had reduced the commonwealth to such distress, that if he demanded even his dearest friend Nicocles, he should vote for delivering him up.

But I am kindly and well-disposed to all, and ready to show even this very man what he has overlooked — not in reproach, nor in a parade of forbearance, but genuinely and kindly, like that famous Phocion, if indeed he was not feigning.