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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: crier to make proclamation, that all the Athenians under sixty
should instantly provide themselves with five days' provision, and
follow him from the assembly. This caused a great tumult. Those
in years were startled, and clamored against the order; he
demanded wherein he injured them, "For I," says he, "am now
fourscore, and am ready to lead you." This succeeded in pacifying
them for the present.
But when Micion, with a large force of Macedonians and
mercenaries, began to pillage the sea-coast, having made a descent
upon Rhamnus, and overrun the neighboring country, Phocion led out
the Athenians to attack him. And when sundry private persons
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