) It also occurs as a proper name
tions his statue of Lysimache, who was a priestess of other mythical beings, such as the Cumaean
of Athena for sixty-four years ; his statue of Sibyl (Paus.
tions his statue of Lysimache, who was a priestess of other mythical beings, such as the Cumaean
of Athena for sixty-four years ; his statue of Sibyl (Paus.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Brut.
91.
)
Σικελία ο Σικελοί, which is quoted by Athenaeus
38. Of Tarsus, a poet who wrote Satyric (iii. p. 108, f. ), Aelian (N. A. xii. 10), Hesychius
dramas. (Diog. Laërt. v. 85. ) The name Tapoi (s. v. 'Eurýpous), and the Etymologicon Magnum
kós, which Diogenes applies to him, is believed (s. v. "Euunpoi). Other quotations, without the
by Casaubon (ue Satyr. Poes. p. 153, &c. ed. Rams- mention of the play from which they are taken,
horn) to refer to a peculiar kind of poetry rather are made by Athenaeus (ii. p. 56, a. ) and Stobaeus
than to the native place of Demetrius. Another (Florileg. ii. 1). The only fragment of the younger
Demetrius of Tarsus is introduced as a speaker in Demetrius is that mentioned above, from the
Plutarch's work “ de Oraculorum Defectu," where 'Apeorayitns (Ath. ix. p. 405, e. ), which fixes his
he is described as returning home from Britain, date, in Clinton's opinion, after 299 B. C. (Clinton,
but nothing further is known about him.
F. H. sub ann. ; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i.
39. A Tragic actor, mentioned by Hesy. pp. 264–266, ii. pp. 876—878, iv. pp. 539,
chius (s. v. Anuntplos): he may be the same as 540. )
[P. S. ]
the M. Demetrius whom Acron (ad Horat. Sut. i. DEME'TRIUS (Anuńtplos), the name of seve-
10. 18, 79) describes as a « δραματοποιός, i. e. ral ancient physicians, who are often confounded
modulator, histrio, actor fabularum. ” Horace him together, and whom it is not always easy to dis-
self treats him with contempt, and calls him an tinguish with certainty.
ape. Weichert (de Horat. Obirect. p. 283, &c. ) sup- 1. A native of Apamea in Bithynia, who was
poses that he was only a person who lived at Rome a follower of Herophilus, and therefore lived pro-
in the time of Horace and taught the art of scenic bably in the third or second century B. c. He
declamation; while others consider him to be the is frequently quoted by Caelius Aurelianus, who
Sicilian, Demetrius Megas, who obtained the Ro- has preserved the titles of some of his works, and
man franchise from J. Caesar through the influence some extracts from them.
In some places he is
of Dolabella, and who is often mentioned under called " Attaleus” (De Morb. Acut. iii. 18, p. 249;
the name of P. Cornelius.
De Moró. Chron. ii. 2, p. 367), but this is only a
40. Of TROEZENE, a Greek grammarian, who is mistake for “ Apameus," as is proved by the same
referred to by Athenaeus. (i. p. 29, iv. p. 139. ) passage being quoted in one place (p. 249) from
He is probably the same as the one who, accord- Demetrius Atlaleus, and in another froin Demetrius
0.
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DEMETRIUS.
DEMOCEDES.
Apancus. (Dc Morl. Chron. v. 9, p. 581. ) He is shrines for Artemis. (Acts of the Apostles, xix.
also several times quored by Soranus. (De Arte 21. )
[P. S. )
Obstetr. pp. 99, 101, 102, 206, 210, 285. )
DEMIANUS, CLAU'DIUS, a contemporary
2. A physician called by Galen by the title of of Nero. lle had been thrown into prison by L.
Archiater (De Antid. i. 1, vol. xiv. p. 4; De The- Vetus, the proconsul of Asia, for his criminal con-
riaca ai Pison. c. 12, vol. xiv. p. 261), must have duct; but he was released by Nero, that he might
lived in the second century after Christ, as that join Fortunatus, a freedman of L. Vetus, in accus-
title was not invented till the reign of Nero. (Dict. ing his patron. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 10. ) (L. S. ]
of Ant. s. v. Archiater. ) Galen speaks of him as a DEMPION, a king of Phlagusi, who, in
contemporary.
order to avert a pestilence, was coinmanded by an
3. A native of Bithynia, who is quoted by Ile- oracle every year to sacrifice a noble maiden. Ile
raclcides of Tarentum (apud Gal. De Compos. Ne- obeyed the command, and had every year a maiden
duam. sec. Gen. ir. 7, vol. xii. p. 722), must have drawn by lot, but did not allow his own daughters
lived about the third or second century B. C. , as
to draw lots with the rest. Onc Mastusius, whose
Mantias, the tutor of Heraclides, was a pupil of danghter liad been sicrificed, was indignant at the
Herophilus. He is probably the same person as king's conduct, and invited him and his daughters
the native of Apamca.
to a sacrificial feast. Mastusius killed the king's
4. DEMETRI'S PEPAGOMEXUS. (PEPAGOME- daughters, and gave their blood in a cup to the
NUS. )
[W. A. G. ) father to drink. The king, on discovering the
DEMEʻTRIUS, artists. 1. An architeci, who, deed, ordered Mastusius and the cup to be thrown
in conjunction with Paeonius, finished the great into the sea, which hence received the name of the
temple of Artemis at Ephesus, which Chersiphron Mastusian. (Hygin. Poct. Astr. ii. 40. (L. S. ]
had begun about 220 years before. He probably DEMIURGUS (Anuoupyós), the author, ac-
lived about B. c. 310, but his date cannot be fixed cording to the Vatican Codex, of a single epigram
with certainty. Vitruvius calls him serrus Dianae, in the Greek Anthology. (Brumck, Anal. i. 257;
that is, a iepóôovos. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 16; Jacobs, ir. 224, No. Di. , xiii. 882. ) [P. S. )
CHERSIPHox. )
DEMO (Anuw), a name of Demeter. (Sui-
2. A statuary of some distinction. Pliny men- das, s. v. Amuw.
) It also occurs as a proper name
tions his statue of Lysimache, who was a priestess of other mythical beings, such as the Cumaean
of Athena for sixty-four years ; his statue of Sibyl (Paus. x. 12. $ 1) and a daughter of Celeus
Athens, which was called Musica (uovoian), he- and Metaneira, who, together with her sisters,
cause the serpents on the Gorgon's head sounded kindly received Demeter at the well Callichoros in
like the strings of a lyre when struck; and his Attica. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 109. ) [L. S. ]
equestrian statue of Simon, who was the earliest DEMOCE'DES (Anuorodns), the son of Calli-
writer on horsemanship. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. phon, a celebrated physician of Crotona, in Magna
§ 15. ) Now Xenophon mentions a Simon who Graecia, who lived in the sixth century B. C. He
wrote tepi italiañs, and who dedicated in the left his native country and went to Aegina, where
Eleusinium at Athens a bronze horse, on the base he received from the public treasury the sum of
of which his own ſeats of horsemanship (Ta avtoû one talent per annum for his medical services, i e.
pya) were represented in relief (Tepi ittiñS, 1, (if we reckon, with Hussey, Ancient Weights and
init. ). The Eleusinium was built by Pericles. It Money, g-c. , the Aeginetan drachma to be worth
would seem therefore that Simon, and consequent- one shilling and a penny three farthings) not quite
ly Demetrius, lived between the time of Pericles 3411. The next year he went to Athens, where
and the latter part of Xenophon's life, that is, in he was paid one hundred minae, i. e. rather more
the latter half of the fifth or the former half of the than 4061. ; and the year following he removed to
fourth century B. C.
It is not likely, therefore, the island of Samos in the Aegean sea, and re-
that he could have been a contemporary of Lysip- ceived from Polycrates, the tyrant, the increased
pus, as Meyer supposes. Hirt mentions a bas- salary of two talents, i. e. (if the Attic standard be
relief in the Museo Nani, at Venice, which he meant) 4877. 10s. (Herod. ii. 131. ) He accom-
thinks may have been copied from the equestrian panied Polycrates when he was seized and put to
statue of Simon. (Gesch. d. Bild. Kunst. p. 191. ) death by Oroetes, the Persian governor of Sardis
According to Quintilian (xii. 10), Demetrius (B. c. 522), by whom he was himself seized and
was blamed for adhering in his statues so closely carried prisoner to Susa to the court of Dareius, the
to the likeness as to impair their beauty. son of Hystaspes. Here he acquired great riches
mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (v. 85). There and reputation by curing the king's foot
, and the
can be little doubt that he is the same person as breast of the queen Atossa. (Ibid. c. 133. ) It is
Demetrius of Alopece, whose bronze statue of added by Dion Chrysostom (Dissert. i. De Invid.
Pellichus is described by Lucian (Philops. 18, 20), p. 652, sq. ), that Dareius ordered the physicians
who, on account of the defect just mentioned, calls who had been unable to cure him to be put to
Demetrius oŮ SEOTULÓS T15, an avÖpWTOTO6s. A death, and that they were saved at the interces-
Δημήτριος Δημητρίου γλυφεύς js mentioned in an sion of Democedes. Notwithstanding his honours
extant inscription. (Böckh, i. 1330, No. 1409. ) at the Persian court, he was always desirous of
3. A painter, whose time is unknown. (Diog. returning to his native country. In order to effect
Laërt. v. 83. ) Perhaps he is the same who is this, he pretended to enter into the views and in-
mentioned by Diodorus (Exc. lat. xxxi. 8) as terests of the Persians, and procured by means of
Anuntpios > Totoypácos, or, as Müller reads, Atossa that he should be sent with some nobles to
70iXoypáoos (Arch. d. kuust. § 182, n. 2), and explore the coast of Greece, and ascertain in what
who lived at Rome about B. C. 161. Valerius parts it might be most successfully attacked.
Maximus calls him pictor Alexandrinus (v. 1. When they arrived at Tarentum, the king, Aris-
$ 1).
tophilides, out of kindness to Democedes, seized
4. An Ephesian silversmith, who made silver the Persians as spies, which afforded the physician
.
He is
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DEMOCIARES.
DEMOCOPUS MYRILLA. 973
an opportunity of escaping to Crotona. llere he | Demochares developed his talents and principles
finally settled, and married the daughter of the in all probability under the direction of Demos.
famous wrestler, Milo; the Persians having fol thenes, and he came forward as a public orator as
lowed him to (rotona, and in vnin demanded that carly as 1. c. 3:22, when Antipater demanded of the
he should be restored. (Herod, ini. 137. ) Accord. Athenians to deliver up to him the leaders of the
ing to Suida- (s. v. ) he wrote a work on Medicine. popular party. (Plut. l'i! . Orat. p. 817. ) Some
He is mentioned also by Aelian (1'. 11. viii. 17) | time after ihe restoration of the democracy he
and John Tzetzes (Hist. ix. 3); and Dion Cassins supported Sophocles, who proposed a decree that
dames him with Hippocrates (xxxviii. 18) as two no philosopher should establish a school without
of the most celebrated physicians of antiquity. the sanction of the senate and people, and that any
By Dion Chrysostom he is called by mistake one acting contrary to this law should be punished
Demodocus.
[W. A. G. ] with death. (Diog. Laërt. v. 38 ; Athen. v. pp.
DEMO'CHARES (Anuoxápns). 1. A son of 187, 215, xi. p. 508, xiii. p. 610 ; Pollux, ix. 42;
Laches, a Greek philosopher and friend of Arce-Euseb. Pruep. Erung. xv. 2. Comp. SOPHOCLES. )
silas and Zeno. (Diog. Laërt. iv. 41, vii. 14. ) Demochares left behind him not only several
2. Of Pucania in Attica, a son of Demosthenes's orations (a fragment of one of them is preserved
sister. llc inherited the true patriotic sentiments in Rutilius Lupus [p. 7, &c. ], but also an ex-
of his great uncle, though it cannot perhaps be tensive historical work, in which he related the
denied, that in his mode of acting and speaking he history of his own time, but which, as Cicero
transgressed the boundaries of a proper freedom says, was written in an oratorical rather than an
and carried it to the verge of impudence. Timaeus historical style. (Cic. Brut. 83, de Orut. ii. 23. )
in his history calumniated his personal character, The twenty-first book of it is quoted by Athen-
but Demochares has found an able defender in Poly- aeus (vi. p. 252, dc. Comp. Plut. Demosth. 30 ;
bius. (xii. 13. ) After the death of Demosthenes, Lucian, Macrob. 10. ) With the exception of a
he was one of the chief supporters of the anti- few fragments, his orations as well as his history
Macedonian party at Athens, and distinguished are lost. (Droysen, Gesch. der Nachfolger Alexand.
himself as a man of the greatest energy both in p. 497, &c. , and more especially his essay in
words and deeds. (Athen. xiii. p. 593 ; Plut. the Zeitschrift für die Alterthumsuissenschafi for
Demetr. 24; Aelian, 1. H. iii. 7, viii. 12. ) His | 1836, Nos. 20 and 21 ; Westermann, Gesch, der
political merits are detailed in the psephisma which Griech. Beredts. § 53, notes 12 and 13. § 72,
is preserved in Plutarch ( lit. X' Orat. p. 851), and note 1).
which was carried on the proposal of his son 3. Of Leuconoe in Attica, was married to the
Laches. There are considerable difficulties in re- mother of Demosthenes, who mentions him in his
storing the chronological order of the leading orations against Aphobus (pp. 818, 836). Ruhn-
events of his life, and we shall confine ourselves ken (ad kutil.
Σικελία ο Σικελοί, which is quoted by Athenaeus
38. Of Tarsus, a poet who wrote Satyric (iii. p. 108, f. ), Aelian (N. A. xii. 10), Hesychius
dramas. (Diog. Laërt. v. 85. ) The name Tapoi (s. v. 'Eurýpous), and the Etymologicon Magnum
kós, which Diogenes applies to him, is believed (s. v. "Euunpoi). Other quotations, without the
by Casaubon (ue Satyr. Poes. p. 153, &c. ed. Rams- mention of the play from which they are taken,
horn) to refer to a peculiar kind of poetry rather are made by Athenaeus (ii. p. 56, a. ) and Stobaeus
than to the native place of Demetrius. Another (Florileg. ii. 1). The only fragment of the younger
Demetrius of Tarsus is introduced as a speaker in Demetrius is that mentioned above, from the
Plutarch's work “ de Oraculorum Defectu," where 'Apeorayitns (Ath. ix. p. 405, e. ), which fixes his
he is described as returning home from Britain, date, in Clinton's opinion, after 299 B. C. (Clinton,
but nothing further is known about him.
F. H. sub ann. ; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i.
39. A Tragic actor, mentioned by Hesy. pp. 264–266, ii. pp. 876—878, iv. pp. 539,
chius (s. v. Anuntplos): he may be the same as 540. )
[P. S. ]
the M. Demetrius whom Acron (ad Horat. Sut. i. DEME'TRIUS (Anuńtplos), the name of seve-
10. 18, 79) describes as a « δραματοποιός, i. e. ral ancient physicians, who are often confounded
modulator, histrio, actor fabularum. ” Horace him together, and whom it is not always easy to dis-
self treats him with contempt, and calls him an tinguish with certainty.
ape. Weichert (de Horat. Obirect. p. 283, &c. ) sup- 1. A native of Apamea in Bithynia, who was
poses that he was only a person who lived at Rome a follower of Herophilus, and therefore lived pro-
in the time of Horace and taught the art of scenic bably in the third or second century B. c. He
declamation; while others consider him to be the is frequently quoted by Caelius Aurelianus, who
Sicilian, Demetrius Megas, who obtained the Ro- has preserved the titles of some of his works, and
man franchise from J. Caesar through the influence some extracts from them.
In some places he is
of Dolabella, and who is often mentioned under called " Attaleus” (De Morb. Acut. iii. 18, p. 249;
the name of P. Cornelius.
De Moró. Chron. ii. 2, p. 367), but this is only a
40. Of TROEZENE, a Greek grammarian, who is mistake for “ Apameus," as is proved by the same
referred to by Athenaeus. (i. p. 29, iv. p. 139. ) passage being quoted in one place (p. 249) from
He is probably the same as the one who, accord- Demetrius Atlaleus, and in another froin Demetrius
0.
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972
DEMETRIUS.
DEMOCEDES.
Apancus. (Dc Morl. Chron. v. 9, p. 581. ) He is shrines for Artemis. (Acts of the Apostles, xix.
also several times quored by Soranus. (De Arte 21. )
[P. S. )
Obstetr. pp. 99, 101, 102, 206, 210, 285. )
DEMIANUS, CLAU'DIUS, a contemporary
2. A physician called by Galen by the title of of Nero. lle had been thrown into prison by L.
Archiater (De Antid. i. 1, vol. xiv. p. 4; De The- Vetus, the proconsul of Asia, for his criminal con-
riaca ai Pison. c. 12, vol. xiv. p. 261), must have duct; but he was released by Nero, that he might
lived in the second century after Christ, as that join Fortunatus, a freedman of L. Vetus, in accus-
title was not invented till the reign of Nero. (Dict. ing his patron. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 10. ) (L. S. ]
of Ant. s. v. Archiater. ) Galen speaks of him as a DEMPION, a king of Phlagusi, who, in
contemporary.
order to avert a pestilence, was coinmanded by an
3. A native of Bithynia, who is quoted by Ile- oracle every year to sacrifice a noble maiden. Ile
raclcides of Tarentum (apud Gal. De Compos. Ne- obeyed the command, and had every year a maiden
duam. sec. Gen. ir. 7, vol. xii. p. 722), must have drawn by lot, but did not allow his own daughters
lived about the third or second century B. C. , as
to draw lots with the rest. Onc Mastusius, whose
Mantias, the tutor of Heraclides, was a pupil of danghter liad been sicrificed, was indignant at the
Herophilus. He is probably the same person as king's conduct, and invited him and his daughters
the native of Apamca.
to a sacrificial feast. Mastusius killed the king's
4. DEMETRI'S PEPAGOMEXUS. (PEPAGOME- daughters, and gave their blood in a cup to the
NUS. )
[W. A. G. ) father to drink. The king, on discovering the
DEMEʻTRIUS, artists. 1. An architeci, who, deed, ordered Mastusius and the cup to be thrown
in conjunction with Paeonius, finished the great into the sea, which hence received the name of the
temple of Artemis at Ephesus, which Chersiphron Mastusian. (Hygin. Poct. Astr. ii. 40. (L. S. ]
had begun about 220 years before. He probably DEMIURGUS (Anuoupyós), the author, ac-
lived about B. c. 310, but his date cannot be fixed cording to the Vatican Codex, of a single epigram
with certainty. Vitruvius calls him serrus Dianae, in the Greek Anthology. (Brumck, Anal. i. 257;
that is, a iepóôovos. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 16; Jacobs, ir. 224, No. Di. , xiii. 882. ) [P. S. )
CHERSIPHox. )
DEMO (Anuw), a name of Demeter. (Sui-
2. A statuary of some distinction. Pliny men- das, s. v. Amuw.
) It also occurs as a proper name
tions his statue of Lysimache, who was a priestess of other mythical beings, such as the Cumaean
of Athena for sixty-four years ; his statue of Sibyl (Paus. x. 12. $ 1) and a daughter of Celeus
Athens, which was called Musica (uovoian), he- and Metaneira, who, together with her sisters,
cause the serpents on the Gorgon's head sounded kindly received Demeter at the well Callichoros in
like the strings of a lyre when struck; and his Attica. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 109. ) [L. S. ]
equestrian statue of Simon, who was the earliest DEMOCE'DES (Anuorodns), the son of Calli-
writer on horsemanship. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. phon, a celebrated physician of Crotona, in Magna
§ 15. ) Now Xenophon mentions a Simon who Graecia, who lived in the sixth century B. C. He
wrote tepi italiañs, and who dedicated in the left his native country and went to Aegina, where
Eleusinium at Athens a bronze horse, on the base he received from the public treasury the sum of
of which his own ſeats of horsemanship (Ta avtoû one talent per annum for his medical services, i e.
pya) were represented in relief (Tepi ittiñS, 1, (if we reckon, with Hussey, Ancient Weights and
init. ). The Eleusinium was built by Pericles. It Money, g-c. , the Aeginetan drachma to be worth
would seem therefore that Simon, and consequent- one shilling and a penny three farthings) not quite
ly Demetrius, lived between the time of Pericles 3411. The next year he went to Athens, where
and the latter part of Xenophon's life, that is, in he was paid one hundred minae, i. e. rather more
the latter half of the fifth or the former half of the than 4061. ; and the year following he removed to
fourth century B. C.
It is not likely, therefore, the island of Samos in the Aegean sea, and re-
that he could have been a contemporary of Lysip- ceived from Polycrates, the tyrant, the increased
pus, as Meyer supposes. Hirt mentions a bas- salary of two talents, i. e. (if the Attic standard be
relief in the Museo Nani, at Venice, which he meant) 4877. 10s. (Herod. ii. 131. ) He accom-
thinks may have been copied from the equestrian panied Polycrates when he was seized and put to
statue of Simon. (Gesch. d. Bild. Kunst. p. 191. ) death by Oroetes, the Persian governor of Sardis
According to Quintilian (xii. 10), Demetrius (B. c. 522), by whom he was himself seized and
was blamed for adhering in his statues so closely carried prisoner to Susa to the court of Dareius, the
to the likeness as to impair their beauty. son of Hystaspes. Here he acquired great riches
mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (v. 85). There and reputation by curing the king's foot
, and the
can be little doubt that he is the same person as breast of the queen Atossa. (Ibid. c. 133. ) It is
Demetrius of Alopece, whose bronze statue of added by Dion Chrysostom (Dissert. i. De Invid.
Pellichus is described by Lucian (Philops. 18, 20), p. 652, sq. ), that Dareius ordered the physicians
who, on account of the defect just mentioned, calls who had been unable to cure him to be put to
Demetrius oŮ SEOTULÓS T15, an avÖpWTOTO6s. A death, and that they were saved at the interces-
Δημήτριος Δημητρίου γλυφεύς js mentioned in an sion of Democedes. Notwithstanding his honours
extant inscription. (Böckh, i. 1330, No. 1409. ) at the Persian court, he was always desirous of
3. A painter, whose time is unknown. (Diog. returning to his native country. In order to effect
Laërt. v. 83. ) Perhaps he is the same who is this, he pretended to enter into the views and in-
mentioned by Diodorus (Exc. lat. xxxi. 8) as terests of the Persians, and procured by means of
Anuntpios > Totoypácos, or, as Müller reads, Atossa that he should be sent with some nobles to
70iXoypáoos (Arch. d. kuust. § 182, n. 2), and explore the coast of Greece, and ascertain in what
who lived at Rome about B. C. 161. Valerius parts it might be most successfully attacked.
Maximus calls him pictor Alexandrinus (v. 1. When they arrived at Tarentum, the king, Aris-
$ 1).
tophilides, out of kindness to Democedes, seized
4. An Ephesian silversmith, who made silver the Persians as spies, which afforded the physician
.
He is
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DEMOCIARES.
DEMOCOPUS MYRILLA. 973
an opportunity of escaping to Crotona. llere he | Demochares developed his talents and principles
finally settled, and married the daughter of the in all probability under the direction of Demos.
famous wrestler, Milo; the Persians having fol thenes, and he came forward as a public orator as
lowed him to (rotona, and in vnin demanded that carly as 1. c. 3:22, when Antipater demanded of the
he should be restored. (Herod, ini. 137. ) Accord. Athenians to deliver up to him the leaders of the
ing to Suida- (s. v. ) he wrote a work on Medicine. popular party. (Plut. l'i! . Orat. p. 817. ) Some
He is mentioned also by Aelian (1'. 11. viii. 17) | time after ihe restoration of the democracy he
and John Tzetzes (Hist. ix. 3); and Dion Cassins supported Sophocles, who proposed a decree that
dames him with Hippocrates (xxxviii. 18) as two no philosopher should establish a school without
of the most celebrated physicians of antiquity. the sanction of the senate and people, and that any
By Dion Chrysostom he is called by mistake one acting contrary to this law should be punished
Demodocus.
[W. A. G. ] with death. (Diog. Laërt. v. 38 ; Athen. v. pp.
DEMO'CHARES (Anuoxápns). 1. A son of 187, 215, xi. p. 508, xiii. p. 610 ; Pollux, ix. 42;
Laches, a Greek philosopher and friend of Arce-Euseb. Pruep. Erung. xv. 2. Comp. SOPHOCLES. )
silas and Zeno. (Diog. Laërt. iv. 41, vii. 14. ) Demochares left behind him not only several
2. Of Pucania in Attica, a son of Demosthenes's orations (a fragment of one of them is preserved
sister. llc inherited the true patriotic sentiments in Rutilius Lupus [p. 7, &c. ], but also an ex-
of his great uncle, though it cannot perhaps be tensive historical work, in which he related the
denied, that in his mode of acting and speaking he history of his own time, but which, as Cicero
transgressed the boundaries of a proper freedom says, was written in an oratorical rather than an
and carried it to the verge of impudence. Timaeus historical style. (Cic. Brut. 83, de Orut. ii. 23. )
in his history calumniated his personal character, The twenty-first book of it is quoted by Athen-
but Demochares has found an able defender in Poly- aeus (vi. p. 252, dc. Comp. Plut. Demosth. 30 ;
bius. (xii. 13. ) After the death of Demosthenes, Lucian, Macrob. 10. ) With the exception of a
he was one of the chief supporters of the anti- few fragments, his orations as well as his history
Macedonian party at Athens, and distinguished are lost. (Droysen, Gesch. der Nachfolger Alexand.
himself as a man of the greatest energy both in p. 497, &c. , and more especially his essay in
words and deeds. (Athen. xiii. p. 593 ; Plut. the Zeitschrift für die Alterthumsuissenschafi for
Demetr. 24; Aelian, 1. H. iii. 7, viii. 12. ) His | 1836, Nos. 20 and 21 ; Westermann, Gesch, der
political merits are detailed in the psephisma which Griech. Beredts. § 53, notes 12 and 13. § 72,
is preserved in Plutarch ( lit. X' Orat. p. 851), and note 1).
which was carried on the proposal of his son 3. Of Leuconoe in Attica, was married to the
Laches. There are considerable difficulties in re- mother of Demosthenes, who mentions him in his
storing the chronological order of the leading orations against Aphobus (pp. 818, 836). Ruhn-
events of his life, and we shall confine ourselves ken (ad kutil.
