Concidit autem maxime uno crimine, quod, cum apud eum summum esset imperium populi iussu et Nicanorem, Cassandri praefectum, insidiari Piraeo Atheniensium a Dercylo moneretur idemque postularet ut provideret ne commeatibus civitas privaretur, huic audiente populo Phocion negavit esse periculum seque eius rei obsidem fore pollicitus est.
But his downfall was due particularly to one offence, committed when he held the highest office in the gift of the people. On that occasion, being warned by Dercylus that Nicanor, one of Cassanders prefects, was plotting an attack on the Piraeus of the Athenians, and being urged to take heed that the state should not be deprived of supplies, Phocion replied in the hearing of the people that there was no danger and promised to assume all responsibility.
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