The son of
be obliged to confine theinselves to examples from Ephorus, was an historian in the time of Alexan-
antiquity, but may derive from his life also a model der the Great.
be obliged to confine theinselves to examples from Ephorus, was an historian in the time of Alexan-
antiquity, but may derive from his life also a model der the Great.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
S.
)
Stephanus Byzantius (s. v. "Avrigoa), and is poro- DENON (Atuwv).
1. The author of an
bably the same as the Demodamas who according Atthis ("A70is), or a history of Attica, against
to Athenaeus (xv. p. 682) wrote a work on Hali- which Pbilochorus wrote his Atthis, from which
carnassus. (περί Αλικαρνασσού. ) (L. S. ] we may infer that Demon lived either shortly
DEMO'DOCUS (Anuódokos). 1. The famous before or at the time of Philochorus. (Plut. Thes
.
bard of the Odyssey, who according to the fashion 19, 23 ; Athen. iii. p. 96; Suid. s. r. TpITOTéTopes. )
of the heroic ages delighted the guests of king Al. He is probably the same as the author of a work
cinoüs during their repast by singing about the feats on proverbs (Tepl ora posswv), of which some
of the Greeks at Troy, of the love of Ares and fragments are still extant, (Steph. s. r. Awiwun ;
Aphrodite, and of the wooden horse. (01. viii. 62, Harpocrat. s. r. Muowv delav; llesych. s. r.
&c. , xiii. 27. ) He is also mentioned as the bard Oivaioı; Photius, passim; Suidas, s. r. Awówvalov;
who advised Agamemnon to guard Clytaemnestra, Schol. ud Aristoph. Plut. 1003, Av. 302, Run. 442;
and to expose Aegisthus in a desert island. (Od. Schol. ad Hom. Od. xx. 301, ll. xvi. 233 ; ui
iii. 267 ; Eustath. ad llom. p. 1466. ) Eustathius Pind. Nem. vii. 155, ad Eurip. Kies. 248 ; Zenob.
describes him as a Laconian, and as a pupil of Au-Proverb. v. 52 ; Apostol. vii. 44, xiii. 36, xvii. 28,
tomedes and Perimedes of Argos. He adds that xx. 27 ; Arsenius, Viol. pp. 186, 463) and of a
he won the prize at the Pythian games and then work on sacrifices (Tepi Suolav; Harpocrat. s. v.
followed Agamemnon to Mycenae. One story a pokuvia). The fragments of the works of Demon
makes Odysseus recite Demodocus's song about the are collected in Siebelis Phanodemus (Demonis,
destruction of Troy during a contest in Tyrrhenia. Chilodemi et Istri) 'Atdiowv et relig. Fragm. , Leip-
(Ptolem. Heph. 7. ) On the throne of Apollo at zig, 1812. (See especially p. vii. &c. , and p. 17,
Amyclae, Demodocus was represented playing to &c. , and in C. and Th. Müller, Frum. Hist. Graec.
the dance of the Phaeacians. " (Paus. iii
. 18. $ 7. ) p. 378, &c. Comp. p. lxxxvii. &c. )
Later writers, who look upon this mythical min- 2. Of the demos of Paeania in Attica, was a
strel as an historical person, describe him as a na- son of Demosthenes's sister, and distinguished him-
tive of Corcyra, and as an aged and blind singer self as an orator ; he belonged, like his great
(Ov. 16. 272), who composed a poem on the de- kiusman, to the anti-Macedonian party. When,
struction of Troy ('iXiou Topanois), and on the after the death of Alexander, Demosthenes was
marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite. (Plut. de still in exile and tried to rouse the Greeks to a
Mus. 3 ; Eudoc. p. 407 ; Phot. Bibl. p. 152. ed. vigorous resistance against the Macedonians, De-
Bekker. ) Plutarch (de Flum. 18) refers even to mon proposed a decree to recall him. It was
the first book of an epic poem on the exploits of joyfully passed by the Athenians, and Demosthe-
Heracles. ('Hpakaela. ) But all such statements nes returned in triumph. (Plut. Demosth. 27 ;
are fabulous ; and if there existed any poems under Athen. viii. p. 311, xiii. p. 593, where a son of
his name, they were certainly forgeries.
his, Phrynion, is mentioned. )
[L. S. ]
2. A companion and friend of Aeneas, who was DEMONASSA (Anucvaooa). 1. The wife of
killed by Halesus. (Virg. Aen. X. 413. ) [L. S. ] Irus, and mother of Eurydamas and Eurytion.
DEMO'DOCUS (Anuódokos). 1. Among the (Hygin. Fab. 14; Apollon. Rhod. i. 74. )
dialogues bearing the name of Plato there is one 2. A daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle,
entitled Demodocus, from the person addressed was the wife of Thersander, by whom she became
therein ; but whether this Demodocus is the friend the mother of Tisamenus. (Paus. iii. 15. S 6, ix.
of Socrates, and father of Theages, who is intro- | 5. § 8. )
duced as one of the interlocutors in the dialogue 3. The mother of Aegialus by Adrastus. (Hy-
Theages, is uncertain. But the dialogue Demodo- gin. Ful. 71. )
[L. S. ]
cus is now acknowledged on all bands to be a DEMO'NAX (Anuáraß), the most distinguish-
fabrication of a late sophist or rhetorician. (C. F. ed of those who attempted to revive the cynical
Hermann, System der Platon. Philos. i. p. 414, &c. ) / doctrines in the second century of the Christian
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DEMOPIIANES.
DEMOPHON.
tera.
Ile pr
p.
" -- lived in the time of Iladrian, chief persons who delivered Megalopolis from the
though the exact ante of his birth and death is tyranny of Aristodemus, and also assisted Aratus
unknown. We owe our knowledge of his character in abolishing tyranny ai Sicyon. For a time they
to Lucian, who has painted it in the most glowing were entrusted with the administration of the state
colours, representing him as almost perfectly wise of Cyrene, and Philopoemen in liis youth had en-
and good. " lle adds that he has written an ac- joyed their friendship. (Polyb. X. 25. ) [L. S. ]
count of Demonax, “ in order that the young who
DEMOPHILUS. (DAMOPHILUS. ]
wish to apply to the study of philosophy may not
DEMOʻPHILUS ( Anuóquidos). 1.
The son of
be obliged to confine theinselves to examples from Ephorus, was an historian in the time of Alexan-
antiquity, but may derive from his life also a model der the Great. He continued his father's history
for their imitation. " Of his friends the best known by adding to it the history of the Sacred Wiir
to us was Epictetus, who appears to have exercised from the taking of Delphi and the plunder of its
considerable' influence in the direction of his mind. temple by Philomelus the Phocian, B. C. 357.
By birth a Cyprian, he removed to Athens, and (Diod. xvi. 14; Suid. s. v. *EQLTTOS, where 'Equpos
there joined the Cynical school, chiefly from re- should be read for 'EDITTOS ; Athen. vi. p. 232, d. ;
spect to the memory of Diogenes, whom he con- Schol. llom. ll. xiii. 301; Vossius, de llist. Graec.
sidered the most faithful representative of the life p. 98, cd. Westermann. )
and virtues of Socrates. He appears, however, to 2. An Athenian comic poet of the new comedy.
have been free from the austerity and moroseness The only mention of liim is in the Prologue to the
of the sect, though he valued their indifference to Asinaria of Plautus, who says, that his play is
external things; but we do not find that he con- taken from the 'Orayós of Demophilus, rv. 10-13,
tributed anything more to the cause of science than “Huic nomen Graece est Onagos Fabulac.
the original Cynics. His popularity at Athens was Demophilus scripsit, Marcus vortit barbare.
so great, that people vied with each other for the Asinariam volt esse, si per vos licet.
honour of offering him bread, and even boys shewed Inest lepos ludusque in hac Comoedia. "
their respect by large donations of apples. He Meineke observes that, judging from the “ “ lepos
contracted some odium by the freedom with which ludusque” of the Asinaria, we have no need to re-
he rebuked vice, and he was accused of neglecting gret the loss of the 'Ovayós. (Meineke, Frug. Com.
sacrifice and the Eleusinian mysteries. To these Gracc. i. 491. )
charges he returned for answer, that “ he did not 3. A Pythagorean philosopher, of whose per-
sacrifice to Athena, because she could not want his sonal history nothing is known.
He wrote a
offerings," and that if the mysteries were bad, work entitled Blov Jepátela, treating of practical
no one ought to be initiated; if good, they should ethics, parts of which are still extant, in the form
be divulged to everybody,"— the first of which re- of a selection, entitled gowuikà ouolumata, from
plies is symptomatic of ihat vague kind of Deism which we may infer that the whole work must
which used so generally to conceal itself under an have been of the highest order of excellence. The
affectation of reverence for the popular gods. He extant portion of it was first printed by Lncas
nerer married, though Epictetus begged him to do | Holstenius in his collection of the ancient writers
so, but was met by the request that his wife might on practical morals, Rome, 1638, 8vo. , Lugd. Bat.
be one of Epictetus's daughters, whose own 1639, 12mo. ; then by Gale, in his Opusc. Mythol.
bachelor life was not rery consistent with his Cant. 1670, 8vo. , Amst. 1688, 8vo. , also with the
urging the duty of giving birth to and educating Oxford edition of Maximus Tyrius, 1677, 12mo. ,
children. This and other anecdotes of Demonax and with Wetstein's Epictetus, Amst. 1750, 12mo. ;
recorded by Lucian, shew him to have been an in a separate form by J. Swedberg, Stockholm,
amiable, good-humoured man, leading probably a 1682, 8v0. , and more correctly by I. A. Schier,
happy life, beloved and respected by those about Lips. 1754, 8vo. , and lastly by J. Č. Orelli, in his
him, and no doubt contrasting, favourably with Opusc. (iraec. Vet. Scntent. Lips. 1819, 8vo. (P. S. ]
others who in those times called themselves votaries DEMO'PHILUS, artists. 1. Of Himera, a
of those ancient systems which, as practical guides painter, who flourished about E. C. 424, was said
of life, were no longer necessary in a world to by some to have been the teacher of Zeuxis. (Plin.
which a perfect revelation had now been given. xxxv. 9. s. 36. S 2; ZEUXIS. )
(CRESCENS. ) Demonax died when nearly a hun- 2. An architect of little note, wrote Praecepta
dred years old, and was buried with great magni. Sunimetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. Pracj. $ 14. ) See
ficence, though he had declared it a matter of perfect also DAMOPHILUS.
[P. S. ]
indifference io him if his body were thrown to the DEMOPHON OF DEMOPHOON (Δημοφών
dogs. (Lucian, Demonax; Brucker, Hist. Crit. or Anuopówv). 1. The youngest son of Celeus and
Phil. per. ii. pars 1. 2. 6. ) [G. E. L. C. ] Metaneira, who was entrusted to the care of De-
DEMONICE (Anuovíkn), a daughter of Agenor meter. He grew up under her without any human
and Epicaste, who became by Ares the mother of food, being fed by the goddess with her own milk,
Euenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius. (Apollod. i. and ambrosia. During the night she used to place
7. 07. ) Hesiod (up. Schol. ad Hom. Il. xiv. 200) him in fire to secure to him eternal youth ; but
calls her Demodoce.
(L. S. ] once she was observed by Metaneira, who disturbed
DEMONICUS (Anuovikos), an Athenian co- the goddess by her cries, and the child Demophon
mic poet of the new comedy, of whom one frag- was consumed by the flames. (Apollod. i. 5. & 1;
ment is preserved by Athenaeus (ix. p. 410, d. ), Ov. Fast. iv. 512, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 147 ; Hom.
who gives 'Ayodwroos as the title of the play; but Hymn. in Cer. 234. )
perhaps it should rather be 'Axea@os. (Meineke, 2. A son of Theseus and Phaedra, and brother
Frag. Com. Graec. i. p. 492, iv. p. 570. ) [P. S. ] of Acamas. (Diod. iv. 62; Hygin. Fab. 48. )
DEMOʻPHANES (nuo dvns), of Megalopolis. According to Pindar (ap. Plut. Thes. 28), he was
a Platonic philosopher, and a disciple of Arcesilas. the son of Theseus by Antiope. He accompanied
(Plut. Philopoem. 1. ) He and Ecdemus were the the Greeks against Troy (Homer, however, does
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DEMOSTHENES.
not mention bim), and there cffected the liberation DEMO'STHENES (Anmoo Oévns), son of Alcis-
of his grandmother Acthra, who was with Helena thenes, Athenian general, is one of the prominent
as a slave. (lans. x. 25. $ 2. ) According to characters of the Peloponnesian war.
He was ap-
Plutarch he was beloved by Laodice, who became pointed in the sixth year, B. C. 426, to the com-
by him the mother of Munychus or Munytus mand with Procles of a squadron of thirty ships
whom Aethra brought up in secret at llium. On sent on the annual cruise around Peloponnesus.
Demophon's return from Trov, Phyllis, the daugh- Their first important efforts were directed against
ter of the Thracian king Sithon, fell in love with Leucas; and with the aid of a large force of
liim, and he consented to marry her. But, before Acarnanians, Zacynthians, Cephallenians, and Cor-
the nuptials were celebrated, he went to Attica to cyracans, it seemed highly probable that this im-
settle liis affairs at home, and as he tarried longer portant ally of Sparta might be reduced. And the
than Phyllis had expected, she began to think that Acarnanians were urgent for a blockade. Demos-
she was forgotten, and put an end to her life. She thenes, however, had conceived, from the informa-
was, however, metamorphosed into a tree, and De- tion of the Messenians, hopes of a loftier kind ;
mophon, when he at last returned and saw what and, at the risk of oflending the Acarnanians, who
bad happened, embraced the true and pressed it to presently declined to co-operate, sailed with these
his bosom, whereupon buds and leaves immediately views to Naupactus. The Corcyrueans had also
came forth. (Oviir. Am. iii. 38, Heroid. 2 ; Serv. left him, but he still persevered in his project,
ud l'irg. Eclog. v. 10; comp. Ilygin.
Stephanus Byzantius (s. v. "Avrigoa), and is poro- DENON (Atuwv).
1. The author of an
bably the same as the Demodamas who according Atthis ("A70is), or a history of Attica, against
to Athenaeus (xv. p. 682) wrote a work on Hali- which Pbilochorus wrote his Atthis, from which
carnassus. (περί Αλικαρνασσού. ) (L. S. ] we may infer that Demon lived either shortly
DEMO'DOCUS (Anuódokos). 1. The famous before or at the time of Philochorus. (Plut. Thes
.
bard of the Odyssey, who according to the fashion 19, 23 ; Athen. iii. p. 96; Suid. s. r. TpITOTéTopes. )
of the heroic ages delighted the guests of king Al. He is probably the same as the author of a work
cinoüs during their repast by singing about the feats on proverbs (Tepl ora posswv), of which some
of the Greeks at Troy, of the love of Ares and fragments are still extant, (Steph. s. r. Awiwun ;
Aphrodite, and of the wooden horse. (01. viii. 62, Harpocrat. s. r. Muowv delav; llesych. s. r.
&c. , xiii. 27. ) He is also mentioned as the bard Oivaioı; Photius, passim; Suidas, s. r. Awówvalov;
who advised Agamemnon to guard Clytaemnestra, Schol. ud Aristoph. Plut. 1003, Av. 302, Run. 442;
and to expose Aegisthus in a desert island. (Od. Schol. ad Hom. Od. xx. 301, ll. xvi. 233 ; ui
iii. 267 ; Eustath. ad llom. p. 1466. ) Eustathius Pind. Nem. vii. 155, ad Eurip. Kies. 248 ; Zenob.
describes him as a Laconian, and as a pupil of Au-Proverb. v. 52 ; Apostol. vii. 44, xiii. 36, xvii. 28,
tomedes and Perimedes of Argos. He adds that xx. 27 ; Arsenius, Viol. pp. 186, 463) and of a
he won the prize at the Pythian games and then work on sacrifices (Tepi Suolav; Harpocrat. s. v.
followed Agamemnon to Mycenae. One story a pokuvia). The fragments of the works of Demon
makes Odysseus recite Demodocus's song about the are collected in Siebelis Phanodemus (Demonis,
destruction of Troy during a contest in Tyrrhenia. Chilodemi et Istri) 'Atdiowv et relig. Fragm. , Leip-
(Ptolem. Heph. 7. ) On the throne of Apollo at zig, 1812. (See especially p. vii. &c. , and p. 17,
Amyclae, Demodocus was represented playing to &c. , and in C. and Th. Müller, Frum. Hist. Graec.
the dance of the Phaeacians. " (Paus. iii
. 18. $ 7. ) p. 378, &c. Comp. p. lxxxvii. &c. )
Later writers, who look upon this mythical min- 2. Of the demos of Paeania in Attica, was a
strel as an historical person, describe him as a na- son of Demosthenes's sister, and distinguished him-
tive of Corcyra, and as an aged and blind singer self as an orator ; he belonged, like his great
(Ov. 16. 272), who composed a poem on the de- kiusman, to the anti-Macedonian party. When,
struction of Troy ('iXiou Topanois), and on the after the death of Alexander, Demosthenes was
marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite. (Plut. de still in exile and tried to rouse the Greeks to a
Mus. 3 ; Eudoc. p. 407 ; Phot. Bibl. p. 152. ed. vigorous resistance against the Macedonians, De-
Bekker. ) Plutarch (de Flum. 18) refers even to mon proposed a decree to recall him. It was
the first book of an epic poem on the exploits of joyfully passed by the Athenians, and Demosthe-
Heracles. ('Hpakaela. ) But all such statements nes returned in triumph. (Plut. Demosth. 27 ;
are fabulous ; and if there existed any poems under Athen. viii. p. 311, xiii. p. 593, where a son of
his name, they were certainly forgeries.
his, Phrynion, is mentioned. )
[L. S. ]
2. A companion and friend of Aeneas, who was DEMONASSA (Anucvaooa). 1. The wife of
killed by Halesus. (Virg. Aen. X. 413. ) [L. S. ] Irus, and mother of Eurydamas and Eurytion.
DEMO'DOCUS (Anuódokos). 1. Among the (Hygin. Fab. 14; Apollon. Rhod. i. 74. )
dialogues bearing the name of Plato there is one 2. A daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle,
entitled Demodocus, from the person addressed was the wife of Thersander, by whom she became
therein ; but whether this Demodocus is the friend the mother of Tisamenus. (Paus. iii. 15. S 6, ix.
of Socrates, and father of Theages, who is intro- | 5. § 8. )
duced as one of the interlocutors in the dialogue 3. The mother of Aegialus by Adrastus. (Hy-
Theages, is uncertain. But the dialogue Demodo- gin. Ful. 71. )
[L. S. ]
cus is now acknowledged on all bands to be a DEMO'NAX (Anuáraß), the most distinguish-
fabrication of a late sophist or rhetorician. (C. F. ed of those who attempted to revive the cynical
Hermann, System der Platon. Philos. i. p. 414, &c. ) / doctrines in the second century of the Christian
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DEMOPIIANES.
DEMOPHON.
tera.
Ile pr
p.
" -- lived in the time of Iladrian, chief persons who delivered Megalopolis from the
though the exact ante of his birth and death is tyranny of Aristodemus, and also assisted Aratus
unknown. We owe our knowledge of his character in abolishing tyranny ai Sicyon. For a time they
to Lucian, who has painted it in the most glowing were entrusted with the administration of the state
colours, representing him as almost perfectly wise of Cyrene, and Philopoemen in liis youth had en-
and good. " lle adds that he has written an ac- joyed their friendship. (Polyb. X. 25. ) [L. S. ]
count of Demonax, “ in order that the young who
DEMOPHILUS. (DAMOPHILUS. ]
wish to apply to the study of philosophy may not
DEMOʻPHILUS ( Anuóquidos). 1.
The son of
be obliged to confine theinselves to examples from Ephorus, was an historian in the time of Alexan-
antiquity, but may derive from his life also a model der the Great. He continued his father's history
for their imitation. " Of his friends the best known by adding to it the history of the Sacred Wiir
to us was Epictetus, who appears to have exercised from the taking of Delphi and the plunder of its
considerable' influence in the direction of his mind. temple by Philomelus the Phocian, B. C. 357.
By birth a Cyprian, he removed to Athens, and (Diod. xvi. 14; Suid. s. v. *EQLTTOS, where 'Equpos
there joined the Cynical school, chiefly from re- should be read for 'EDITTOS ; Athen. vi. p. 232, d. ;
spect to the memory of Diogenes, whom he con- Schol. llom. ll. xiii. 301; Vossius, de llist. Graec.
sidered the most faithful representative of the life p. 98, cd. Westermann. )
and virtues of Socrates. He appears, however, to 2. An Athenian comic poet of the new comedy.
have been free from the austerity and moroseness The only mention of liim is in the Prologue to the
of the sect, though he valued their indifference to Asinaria of Plautus, who says, that his play is
external things; but we do not find that he con- taken from the 'Orayós of Demophilus, rv. 10-13,
tributed anything more to the cause of science than “Huic nomen Graece est Onagos Fabulac.
the original Cynics. His popularity at Athens was Demophilus scripsit, Marcus vortit barbare.
so great, that people vied with each other for the Asinariam volt esse, si per vos licet.
honour of offering him bread, and even boys shewed Inest lepos ludusque in hac Comoedia. "
their respect by large donations of apples. He Meineke observes that, judging from the “ “ lepos
contracted some odium by the freedom with which ludusque” of the Asinaria, we have no need to re-
he rebuked vice, and he was accused of neglecting gret the loss of the 'Ovayós. (Meineke, Frug. Com.
sacrifice and the Eleusinian mysteries. To these Gracc. i. 491. )
charges he returned for answer, that “ he did not 3. A Pythagorean philosopher, of whose per-
sacrifice to Athena, because she could not want his sonal history nothing is known.
He wrote a
offerings," and that if the mysteries were bad, work entitled Blov Jepátela, treating of practical
no one ought to be initiated; if good, they should ethics, parts of which are still extant, in the form
be divulged to everybody,"— the first of which re- of a selection, entitled gowuikà ouolumata, from
plies is symptomatic of ihat vague kind of Deism which we may infer that the whole work must
which used so generally to conceal itself under an have been of the highest order of excellence. The
affectation of reverence for the popular gods. He extant portion of it was first printed by Lncas
nerer married, though Epictetus begged him to do | Holstenius in his collection of the ancient writers
so, but was met by the request that his wife might on practical morals, Rome, 1638, 8vo. , Lugd. Bat.
be one of Epictetus's daughters, whose own 1639, 12mo. ; then by Gale, in his Opusc. Mythol.
bachelor life was not rery consistent with his Cant. 1670, 8vo. , Amst. 1688, 8vo. , also with the
urging the duty of giving birth to and educating Oxford edition of Maximus Tyrius, 1677, 12mo. ,
children. This and other anecdotes of Demonax and with Wetstein's Epictetus, Amst. 1750, 12mo. ;
recorded by Lucian, shew him to have been an in a separate form by J. Swedberg, Stockholm,
amiable, good-humoured man, leading probably a 1682, 8v0. , and more correctly by I. A. Schier,
happy life, beloved and respected by those about Lips. 1754, 8vo. , and lastly by J. Č. Orelli, in his
him, and no doubt contrasting, favourably with Opusc. (iraec. Vet. Scntent. Lips. 1819, 8vo. (P. S. ]
others who in those times called themselves votaries DEMO'PHILUS, artists. 1. Of Himera, a
of those ancient systems which, as practical guides painter, who flourished about E. C. 424, was said
of life, were no longer necessary in a world to by some to have been the teacher of Zeuxis. (Plin.
which a perfect revelation had now been given. xxxv. 9. s. 36. S 2; ZEUXIS. )
(CRESCENS. ) Demonax died when nearly a hun- 2. An architect of little note, wrote Praecepta
dred years old, and was buried with great magni. Sunimetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. Pracj. $ 14. ) See
ficence, though he had declared it a matter of perfect also DAMOPHILUS.
[P. S. ]
indifference io him if his body were thrown to the DEMOPHON OF DEMOPHOON (Δημοφών
dogs. (Lucian, Demonax; Brucker, Hist. Crit. or Anuopówv). 1. The youngest son of Celeus and
Phil. per. ii. pars 1. 2. 6. ) [G. E. L. C. ] Metaneira, who was entrusted to the care of De-
DEMONICE (Anuovíkn), a daughter of Agenor meter. He grew up under her without any human
and Epicaste, who became by Ares the mother of food, being fed by the goddess with her own milk,
Euenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius. (Apollod. i. and ambrosia. During the night she used to place
7. 07. ) Hesiod (up. Schol. ad Hom. Il. xiv. 200) him in fire to secure to him eternal youth ; but
calls her Demodoce.
(L. S. ] once she was observed by Metaneira, who disturbed
DEMONICUS (Anuovikos), an Athenian co- the goddess by her cries, and the child Demophon
mic poet of the new comedy, of whom one frag- was consumed by the flames. (Apollod. i. 5. & 1;
ment is preserved by Athenaeus (ix. p. 410, d. ), Ov. Fast. iv. 512, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 147 ; Hom.
who gives 'Ayodwroos as the title of the play; but Hymn. in Cer. 234. )
perhaps it should rather be 'Axea@os. (Meineke, 2. A son of Theseus and Phaedra, and brother
Frag. Com. Graec. i. p. 492, iv. p. 570. ) [P. S. ] of Acamas. (Diod. iv. 62; Hygin. Fab. 48. )
DEMOʻPHANES (nuo dvns), of Megalopolis. According to Pindar (ap. Plut. Thes. 28), he was
a Platonic philosopher, and a disciple of Arcesilas. the son of Theseus by Antiope. He accompanied
(Plut. Philopoem. 1. ) He and Ecdemus were the the Greeks against Troy (Homer, however, does
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DEMOSTHENES.
not mention bim), and there cffected the liberation DEMO'STHENES (Anmoo Oévns), son of Alcis-
of his grandmother Acthra, who was with Helena thenes, Athenian general, is one of the prominent
as a slave. (lans. x. 25. $ 2. ) According to characters of the Peloponnesian war.
He was ap-
Plutarch he was beloved by Laodice, who became pointed in the sixth year, B. C. 426, to the com-
by him the mother of Munychus or Munytus mand with Procles of a squadron of thirty ships
whom Aethra brought up in secret at llium. On sent on the annual cruise around Peloponnesus.
Demophon's return from Trov, Phyllis, the daugh- Their first important efforts were directed against
ter of the Thracian king Sithon, fell in love with Leucas; and with the aid of a large force of
liim, and he consented to marry her. But, before Acarnanians, Zacynthians, Cephallenians, and Cor-
the nuptials were celebrated, he went to Attica to cyracans, it seemed highly probable that this im-
settle liis affairs at home, and as he tarried longer portant ally of Sparta might be reduced. And the
than Phyllis had expected, she began to think that Acarnanians were urgent for a blockade. Demos-
she was forgotten, and put an end to her life. She thenes, however, had conceived, from the informa-
was, however, metamorphosed into a tree, and De- tion of the Messenians, hopes of a loftier kind ;
mophon, when he at last returned and saw what and, at the risk of oflending the Acarnanians, who
bad happened, embraced the true and pressed it to presently declined to co-operate, sailed with these
his bosom, whereupon buds and leaves immediately views to Naupactus. The Corcyrueans had also
came forth. (Oviir. Am. iii. 38, Heroid. 2 ; Serv. left him, but he still persevered in his project,
ud l'irg. Eclog. v. 10; comp. Ilygin.
