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 350 HISTORY OF GREECE. post; those who had held office under the Antipatrian oligarchy and who still continued to hold it down to the actual moment. Among these Phokion stood first : along with him were his son- in-law Charikles, the Phalerean Demetrius, Kallimedon, Niko- kles, Thudippus, Hegemon, and Philokles. These persons were not only deposed, but condemned, some to death, some to banish- ment and confiscation of property. Demetrius, Charikles, and Kallimedon sought safety by leaving Attica ; but Phokion and the rest merely went to Alexander's camp, throwing themselves upon his protection on the faith of the recent understanding.* Alexander not only received them courteously, but gave them letters to his father Polysperchon, requesting safety and protec- tion for them, as men who had embraced his cause, and who were still eager to do all in their power to support him.- Armed with these letters, Phokion and his companions Avcnt tlirough Boeotia and Phokis to meet Polysperchon on his march southward. They were accompanied by Deinarchus and by a Platsean named Solon, both of them passing for friends of Polysperchon." The Athenian democracy, just reconstituted, Avhich had passed the recent condemnatory votes, was disquieted at the news that Alexander had espoused the cause of Phokion and had recom- mended the like policy to his father. It was possible that Poly- sperchon might seek, with his powerful army, both to occupy Athens and to capture Peirteus, and might avail himself of Pho- kion (like Antipater after the Lamian war) as a convenient in- strument of government. It seems plain that this was the project of Alexander, and that he counted on Phokion as a ready auxiliary in both. Now the restored democrats, though owing their restoration to Polysperchon, were much less compli- ant towards him than Phokion had been. Not only they would 1 Diodor. xviii. 65; Plutarch, Phokion, 35. ypufj/iara D.aj3ov ■Trpdg tov Traripa 'n.o?,vai:-ipxovTa, uttcjc uj)6ev r^udi^aiv oi nepl ^uKiDva T a ic £ iv ov Tre^povTiKorec, nai v v v ETra/ye^Ao fiEvoi nuvTa avuivpu^eiv. This application of Phokion to Alexander, and the letters c stained to Polysperchon, are not mentioned by Plutarch, though they are imiortant tircumstances in following the last days of Phokion's life. ' Plutarch, Phokion, 33.
 * Diodor. xviii. 66. Upoadex^^^T^C <^e irr' avrov (Alexander) (pu^otpp^iug,