a celebrated orator and peripatetic philosopher, the scholar of Theophrastus. He acquired so much authority at Athens, that he governed the city for ten years; and ruled with so much wisdom and virtue, that they set up 56 statues in honour of him. By the flanders of some malicious persons, in his absence, he was, however, condemned to die; and his images were pulled down: which when Demetrius heard, he said, they could not pull down that virtue for which those images were set up. He escaped into Egypt, and was protected by Ptolemy Lagus. This king, it is said, asked his advice concerning the succession of his children to the throne; viz. whether he ought to prefer those he had by Eurydice to Ptolemy Philadelphus whom he had by Berenice; and Demetrius advised him to leave his crown to the former. This displeased Philadelphus so much, that, his father being dead, he banished Demetrius; who was afterwards killed by the bite of an asp. Demetrius composed more works in prose and verse than any other peripatetic of his time; and his writings consisted of poetry, history, politics, rhetoric, harangues, and embassies. None of them are extant except his rhetoric, which is usually printed among the Rhetores Selecti.