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112 Phocion ‘(Calmly.) Ihave read. The names are —what Athens would expect.

Lysander Then let me burn it,

First Citizen (Rising.) Phocion, in the names you read, and in the names of all assembled here, we offer you the leadership—the military leadership. We ask you to lead our beloved city back to liberty agam. (Muffled ap- plause.)

[While Puocton has been reading, a woman's figure is seen creeping from pillar to pillar where the shadows are deepest. She is fol- lowed closely by a second figure— a man swathed in a head-dress such. as that worn by the Persian war- rior in the Elgin Marbles. Un- noticed in the dimness they reach