DEMOCHARES (c. B.c.), nephew of Demosthenes, Athenian orator and statesman, was one of the few distinguished Athenians in the period of decline. He is first heard of in 322, when he spoke in vain against the surrender of Demosthenes and the other anti-Macedonian orators demanded by Antipater. Dur ing the next fifteen years he probably lived in exile. On the res toration of the democracy by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 307 he occupied a prominent position, but was banished in 303 for having ridiculed the decree of Stratocles, which contained a fulsome eulogy of Demetrius. He was recalled in 298, and during the next four years fortified and equipped the city with provisions and ammunition. In 296 (or 295) he was again banished for having concluded an alliance with the Boeotians, and did not return until 287 (or 286). According to Cicero (Brutus, 83) Demochares was the author of a history of his own times, written in an oratorical rather than a historical style. As a speaker he was noted for his freedom of language (Parrhesiastes, Seneca, De ira, iii. 23) . He was violently attacked by Timaeus, but found a strenuous defender in Polybius See also Plutarch, Demosthenes, 3o, Demetrius, 24, Vitae decem oratorum, P. 847 ; J. G. Droysen's essay on Demochares in Zeitschri f t fiir die Altertumswissenschaft (1836), Nos. 20, 21.