Definitions for Phocion

Phocion Pho·ci·on

Spelling: [foh-shee-uh n, -on]
IPA: /ˈfoʊ ʃi ən, -ˌɒn/

Phocion is a 7 letter English word.

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Definitions for Phocion

noun

  1. 402?–317 b.c, Athenian statesman and general.

Examples for Phocion

Who wolde not wonder at the cleane and vncorrupt courage of this Phocion?

But very few Athenians had the spirit of Phocion or Demosthenes.

Among the distinguished Athenians of the day, only Phocion's outshone it.

They asked pardon of Phocion, and raised a statue to his honor.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees.

Dinarchus, an orator of the Phocion party in Athens, born at Corinth.

As for Phocion, he did not deem it honest to accept the gold sent to him by Alexander.

Like Phocion, he believed in the enemies of his country more than he believed in his own people.

He was not a Phocion, for he never became the tool of a foreign power.

Let him look into the errors of Phocion, and he will beware how he be obstinate or inflexible.

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