Phocion

Again, therefore, he was led to pay court to Phocion, but after all his efforts to bribe him found that he was impregnable on all sides like a fortress. Of Charicles, however, Phocion’s son-in-law, Harpalus made an intimate associate and friend, trusting him in everything and using him in everything, and thus covered him with infamy.

For instance, on the death of Pythonicé the courtesan, who was the passionately loved mistress of Harpalus and had borne him a daughter, Harpalus resolved to build her a very expensive monument, and committed the care of the work to Charicles.

This service was an ignoble one in itself, but it acquired additional disgrace from the completed tomb. For this is still to be seen in Hermus, on the road from Athens to Eleusis, and it has nothing worthy of the large sum of thirty talents which Charicles is said to have charged Harpalus for the work.[*](See Pausanias, i. 37, 5, with Frazer’s notes. Pausanias speaks of it as the best worth seeing of all ancient Greek tombs. )And yet after the death of Harpalus himself,[*](Antipater demanded his surrender by the Athenians, and Harpalus fled to Crete, where he was assassinated.) his daughter was taken up by Charicles and Phocion and educated with every care.