But when the defeat came, and the turbulent and revolutionary spirits in the city dragged Charidemus to the tribunal and demanded that he be made general, the best citizens were filled with fear; and with the aid of the council of the Areiopagus in the assembly, by dint of entreaties and tears, they persuaded them at last to entrust the city to the guidance of Phocion.
Edition :
Plutarch's Lives VIII: Sertorius and Eumenes, Phocion and Cato the Younger, ed. Bernadotte Perrin, Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - William Heinemann Ltd.: London 1919 (The Loeb Classical Library 100).
Remark :
victim: While Plutarch's narrative may suggest that the Battle of Chaeronea was only between Philip II and Athens, the Athenians and Thebes led multiple allied Greek cities against the Macedonians.
Notes :
The Battle of Chaeronea was the last decisive vitory of the Macedoanians against the allied Greek forces.
