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Phocion (c. 402-317 BC)

Athenian general and statesman. An opponent of the orator Demosthenes, he advocated peace with Philip II of Macedon.

Phocion was celebrated as an extempore orator. In 318, he was suspected of having advised the seizure of Peiraias by Cassander's general Nicanor, and he was executed.



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