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The story about the money, indeed, is generally admitted, namely, that Alexander sent him a present of a hundred talents.1 When this was brought to Athens, Phocion asked the bearers why in the world, when there were so many Athenians, Alexander offered such a sum to him alone. They replied:
‘Because Alexander judges that thou alone art a man of honour and worth.’
‘In that case,’ said Phocion,
‘let him suffer me to be and be thought such always.’
1 The talent was equivalent to about £235, or $1,200, with four or five times the purchasing power of modern money.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 8.
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