When Alexander made a demand for triremes, and the people called for Phocion by name to come forward and advise them, he arose and said, ‘Well then, I advise you either to be conquerors yourselves by force of arms, or else to be the friends of the conquerors.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Phocion, chap. xxi. (751 A).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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