Phocians

This, I think, makes it as plain as it can possibly be, that the ruin of the Phocians was the result of organized deceit and trickery, and of nothing else. [n] For so long as Philip was unable to proceed to Phocis on account of the Peace, [n] and was only waiting in readiness to do so, he kept sending for the Spartans, promising to do all that they wished, [n] in order that the Phocians might not win {77} them over to their side by your help.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

Faced with Macedonian troops on their border, the Phocians capitulated and Philip was granted a place of honor on the council.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Faced with Macedonian troops on their border, the Phocians capitulated and Philip was granted a place of honor on the council.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Faced with Macedonian troops on their border, the Phocians capitulated and Philip was granted a place of honor on the council.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

From the Phocians came Iphitus sprung from Naubolus son of Ornytus; once he had been his host when Jason went to Pytho to ask for a response concerning his voyage; for there he welcomed him in his own halls.

The Argonautica 2008

To this we, the Lacedaemonians and their allies here present, agree, and we will send heralds to the Boeotians and Phocians, and do our best to gain their assent likewise.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Pellene took part with the Lacedaemonians at first; afterwards all the Achaeans joined them. 5 Beyond the borders of the Peloponnese, the Megarians, Phocians, Locrians,

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Of the Locrians, the inhabitants of Amphissa were most willing to co-operate with him, being anxious for protection against their enemies the Phocians; they were the first who gave hostages, and by them the other Locrians, who were alarmed at the impending invasion, were persuaded to do the like: -- first their neighbours the Myoneans, who commanded the most difficult pass into Locris; then the Ipneans, Messapians, Tritaeeans,

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Aristides was banished, Phocion put to death, Socrates condemned to drink hemlock after having been exposed to banter and derision on the stage by Aristophanes; and under which the Amphyctions, with contemptible imbecility, actually delivered up Greece into the power of Philip, because the Phocians had ploughed up a field which was part of the territory of Apollo?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He had with him a division21 and a half of Lacedaemonians, and from the seat of war itself the allied troops of the Phocians and the men of Orchomenus only, besides the armament which he had brought with him from Asia.

Agesilaus 2007