<blockquote>When, thirdly, the father himself arrived, he was just as much attracted to the pursuit of philosophy as his sons and joined the circle – so magical was the spell which the discourses of Diogenes exerted. Amongst his hearers was Phocion surnamed the Honest, and Stilpo the Megarian, and many other men prominent in political life.
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<blockquote>Of Aigina [Myth, Place]. He came to Athens on a sightseeing trip but heard Diogenes [lecturing] and became a philosopher. His father sent his brother out after him, who himself had the same experience; and when their father returned to look for the pair of them, he also became a philosopher. Another associate of his was Phokion the Good. After his death [Diogenes] was buried in Corinth, and there is a dog on his gravestone. And he was honoured in Sinope with a statue and an epigram [which read]: “time makes even gold grow old; but your renown, Diogenes, not all eternity will destroy. For you alone showed mortals the glory of a self-sufficient life and the easiest path of existence.”
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<blockquote>CHAP. XXV. Of Alexander's magnificence to Phocion, and his to Alexander. Alexander the son of Philip, (or, if any one likes it better, of Jupiter, for to me it is all one) to Phocion the Athenian Captain onely began his letters with the usual form of salutation, Hail, so much had Phocion won upon the Macedonian. He also sent him a hundred Talents of silver, and named four Cities, of which he might chuse any one to receive the revenues and profits thereof for his own use.
These Cities were Cius, Ebæa, Mylasa, Patara: thus did Alexander liberally and magnificently. But Phocion farre more, who accepted neither the City nor the Silver ; yet that he might not seem to dis-esteem and contemn the offers of Alexander, he expressed his respect to him thus : He requested that they who were kept Prisoners in the Tower of Sardis might be set at liberty ; Echecratides the Sophist, Athenodorus of Himera, Demaratus and Sparto: these two were brethren and Rhodians.
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<blockquote>Chap. XLI. Of Phocion. They who are to die with Phocion making lamentation ; Phocion said, “Then you are not proud, ô Thudippus, of dying with Phocion.”
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