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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: -to it; and for this end.nly have I accepted the ciqn- After Thebes was loft, and Alexander had demanded Dimoftheaes, Lycurgus Hyperidet and Cbaridemus to be delivered up, the whole atlembly turned their eyes upon him, and feveral times called upon him by name to deliver his opinion; at laft he rofe up, and fhowing. to them one of his friends named Nicodes, the perfon of all others the deareft to him, and in whom he confided moft, he fpoke to them in this manner; Tbofe men whom Alexander now demands of .you, have brought you into /tub miferable circumftances, (bat if he demanded even Nicocles Ifliould he for delivering him up; nay if. my own life could purchafe your fafety I would refign it with chearfulnefs. am grieved for the Thebans who are fled hither for fuc- cour; but it is enough for Greece that Thebes Jhculd mourn; andfurely it will he more for the common inter.eft to deprecate tbt conqueror, and intercede for hoth, than run the hazard of another battle. . We are told that the firft decree which paft in this afiembly was rejected by Alexander, who turned his back upon the ambaffadors that prefented it. But when Phocion came to prefent the fecond he received him kindly; for he had been told by thofe of the loagell landing in his court, that his father Philip had a greac value for him. Wherefore he did not only give him a favourable audience, and grant his requefts, but liftened likewife to his advice. For Phocion told him, that if he was defirous of repcfe heJhould lay down bis arms; but if glory was bis cbjeE), he ought to turn them from the Greeks again/) the Barbarians. Thus having dropt fe- veral things in his difcourfe which he knew to be agreeable to Alexander's humour atid genius, he fo won upon him, and foftned his temper, that he told him, The Athenians ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217533157 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217533159 |
| Weight | 1.12 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 In |
| List Price | $24.58 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 344 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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