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 PHOCION. 355 that on which I had placed you, and secondly, that on which you had placed yourself? " However, he entirely routed the enemy, killing Micion and many more on the spot. The Grecian army, also, in Thessaly, after Leonna- tus and the Macedonians who came with him out of Asia, had arrived and joined Antipater, fought and beat them in a battle. Leonnatus was killed in the fight, Antiphi- lus commanding the foot, and Menon, the Thessalian, the horse. But not long after, Craterus crossed from Asia with numerous forces ; a pitched battle was fought at Cranon ; the Greeks were beaten ; though not, indeed, in a signal defeat, nor with any great loss of men. But what with their want of obedience to their commanders, who were young and over-indulgent with them > and what with An- tipater's tampering and treating with their separate cities, one by one, the end of it was that the army was dissolved, and the Greeks shamefully surrendered the liberty of their country. Upon the news of Antipater's now advancing at once against Athens with all his force, Demosthenes and Hy- perides deserted the city, and Demades, who was alto- gether insolvent for any part of the fines that had been laid upon him by the city, for he had been condemned no less than seven times for introducing bills contrary to the laws, and who had been disfranchised, and was no longer competent to vote in the assembly, laid hold of this season of impunity, to bring in a bill for sending am- bassadors with plenipotentiary power to Antipater, to treat about a peace. But the people distrusted him, and called upon Phocion to give his opinion, as the person they only and entirely confided in. He told them, " If my former counsels had been prevalent with you, we had not been reduced to deliberate on the question at all.'" However, the vote passed ; and a decree was made, and