an orator and demagogue, who, from being a common sailor, rose to a prominent position at Athens. He espoused the cause of Philip in the war against Olynthus; and having fallen into the hands of the Macedonians at the battle of Cheronæa, he was instrumental in procuring a treaty of peace between Macedon and Athens. He continued to be a favourite of Alexander, and saved Demosthenes and the other obnoxious Athenian orators from his vengeance. Harpalus and Antipater both succeeded in bribing him to their cause; but the latter, discovering a correspondence which showed him to have been at the same time in communication with Perdiccas, put him to death along with his son Demeas. A fragment of a speech bearing his name is still extant, and is to be found in the Oratores Attici, but its genuineness is exceedingly doubtful.