The Ancient History of the Egyptians Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes and Persians Macedonians and Grecians, 7; by Charles Rollin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 edition. Excerpt: ... Sect. V. The Athenians condemn Phocion to die. Cafsander makes himself master of Athens, where he eJlablijhes Demetrius Phalereus in the government of that republick. His prudent administration. Eutne-- nes quits Nora. Various expeditions of Antigonusy Seleucus, Ptolemy, and other generals, againjl him. Olympias causes Aridaeus to beslain, and is murdered in her return by the orders of Cajander. The war between him and Polysperchon. The rc-ejlablshment of Thebes. Eumcnes is betrayed by his own troops, delivered up to Antigonus, and put to death. (/) / DEGREESassander, before the death of Antipater was known at Athens, had sent Nicanor thither, to succeed Menyllus in the government of the fortress of Munychia, soon after which he had made himself master of Piraeus. Phocion, who placed too much considence in the probity and sidelity of Nicanor, had contracted a strict intimacy, and conversed frequently with him, which caused the people to suspect him more than ever. In this conjuncture, Alexander, the son of Polysperchon, arrived with a great body of troops, under pretext of succouring the city against Nicanor, but in reality, to seize it into his own power, if possible, in consequence of the divisions which then reigned within it. He there. held a tumultuous assembly, in which Phocion was divested of his employment of general, while Demetrius Phalereus, with several other citizens, who were apprehensive of the same sate, immediately retired from the city.. Phocion, who had the grief to see himself accused of treason, took sanctuary with Polysperchon, who sent him back to be tried by the people. An assembly was immediately con voked on that occasion, from which neither flaves, (hangers, nor any insamous persons whatever, were excluded....