Alexander was vexed and wrote back to Phocion that he could not regard as his friends those who wanted nothing of him. But not even then would Phocion take the money; he did, however, ask for the release of Echecratides the sophist, Athenodorus of Imbros, and two men of Rhodes, Demaratus and Sparton, who had been arrested upon sundry charges and imprisoned in Sardis.
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).
