[Lysander pauses to listen too.
Stranger
A gift I am bid offer first—a gift from Egypt, where Phocion fought so bravely and so well. (Holds out an object of gold.) From the Temple of Ammon himself in Lybia.
Phocion
(Coldly.) Phocion fights not for gifts; nor can he accept anything from the barbarian conqueror of Athens.
Stranger
I am bid to urge reflection on you. First words are not the truest always, nor the wisest. (Pauses.)
Phocion
(Simply, with scorn.) I am an Athenian.