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116 Phocion (Coldly.) Phocion fights not for gifts; nor can he accept anything from the bar- barian congucror of Athens,

Stranger I am bid to urge reflection on you. First words are not the truest always, nor the wisest. ( Pauses.)

Phoacion (Simply, with scorn.) Iam an Athenian.

Stranger (Lays gift on a marble table beside Puocion.) Alexander commands me say further—that, with this gift, he would hon- our Phocion by yet another one. He bids me call you the Military Governor of his new city in Egypt.

Phocion

The two gifts are one. I have one an- swer only.