Demetrius

the conditions, which Seleucus demanded of Demetrius, for permitting him to remain within his territories.

Plutarch says that when Demetrius had invested Attica, and taken the neighbouring towns of Eleusis and Rhamnus, he ordered the master and pilot of a ship, attempting to convey provisions into Athens, to be hanged, as he designed to reduce that city by famine:

After the defeat of king Ptolemy, Demetrius gave part of the spoils to the Athenians.

" I, at any rate, hear what our Demetrius says in a different way when I have seen him with nothing about him, lying upon no bed but the bare ground—not so much the teacher of truths as the witness of them.

Demetrius, the best of men, I carry about with me, and leaving the men dressed in purple I talk with him, half-naked as he is, and I admire him.

Here our Demetrius comes to my mind, who calls a life that is untroubled and without any assaults of fortune a dead sea.

and Demetrius the Besieger, having become a captive, died ignobly of wine and drunkenness, besieged by Fortune.

And I know that Harmodius and Aristogeiton served as slaves among the Persians, and that the fifteen hundred statues of Demetrius of Phalerum were all taken down by the Athenians in one and the same day.

Keen-witted men like Charax, Demetrius the Platonist, Eudaemon, and any such.

Go on now, and tell me of Alexander and Philip and Demetrius of Phalerum.

A leader of this state, Demetrius of Phalerum, when he had been driven from his country by injustice, betook himself to king Ptolemy at Alexandria.

and at last, when it was now bloodless and prostrate, the learned man Demetrius of Phalerum propped it up—whereas our own commonwealth was framed not by the genius of one man, but of many, nor in the lifetime of a single man, but over several ages and generations.

And Demetrius says, in his work On the Kings in Judaea, that the tribe of Judah and Benjamin and Levi were not led captive by Sennacherim, but that from this captivity to the last, which Nebuchadnezzar made out of Jerusalem, are a hundred and twenty-eight years, six months.

3 For Demetrius the Cynic, a man great in my judgment, even if he be compared with the greatest, was wont to say excellently this, that it profits more if you hold a few precepts of wisdom, but those ready at hand and in use, than if you have learned many indeed, but have them not within reach.

This spirited utterance, too, of Demetrius, that bravest of men, I remember hearing:

Among the many noble sayings of our friend Demetrius is this one, which I have heard but lately;

But even now you shall not take it from me by force, for nothing is wrested away except from one who holds it back.

Is anyone to care whether he seems too rich to those to whom Demetrius the Cynic is not poor enough?

Do you call happier that Demetrius, Pompey's freedman, who was not ashamed to be richer than Pompey himself?

their followers too, Ptolemy of Mendes and Menander of Ephesus and Demetrius of Phalerum and King Juba and Apion and Thallus, and whoever either approves or convicts these;

The most learned of the Ptolemies, whom they surname Philadelphus, and most sagacious in all literature, when in zeal for libraries he rivalled, I think, Pisistratus, among other records to which either antiquity or some curiosity lent fame, at the suggestion of Demetrius of Phalerum, then the most approved of grammarians, to whom he had entrusted the charge, requested books also from the Jews, th …