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 PHOCION. 359 the lower town and the sea-coast, they should keep only the upper city. Menyllus was sufficient security that the garrison should behave itself inoffensively. But those who were now excluded from the franchise by poverty, amounted to more than twelve thousand ; so that both those that remained in the city thought themselves oppressed and shamefully used, and those who on this account left their homes and went away into Thrace, where Antipater offered them a town and some territory to inhabit, re- garded themselves only as a colony of slaves and exiles. And when to this was added the deaths of Demosthenes at Calauria, and of Hyperides at Cleonas, as we have else- where related, the citizens began to think with regret of Philip and Alexander, and almost to wish the return of those times. And as, after Antigonus was slain, when those that had taken him off were afflicting and oppress- ing the people, a countryman in Phrygia, digging in the fields, was asked what he was doing, "I am," said he, fetching a deep sigh, "searching for Antigonus;" so said many that remembered those days, and the contests they had with those kings, whose anger, however great, was yet generous and placable ; whereas Antipater, with the counterfeit humility of appearing like a private man, in the meanness of his dress * and his homely fare, merely belied his real love of that arbitrary power, which he ex- ercised, as a cruel master and despot, to distress those under his command. Yet Phocion had interest with him to recall many from banishment by his intercession, and prevailed also for those who were driven out, that they might not, like others, be hurried beyond T^narus, and the mountains of Ceraunia, but remain in Greece, and plant themselves in Peloponnesus, of which number was aver purple, within.
 * He was, said Alexander the Great, scornfully, holoporphuros, all