DE'IIADES, an Athenian orator and demagogue, contemporary with Demontheues. According to Suidas ho was originally a sailor ; according to l'roclus a fishmonger. He took the part of Philip in the Olynthian affair, and was liberally rewarded by that prince, who received him well when he fell into his hands after the battle of Chterones. lie was mainly instrumental iu bringing about the peace between Macedon and Athens, which followed that victory. (Dementia., de Corona,' p. 320.) When Alexander, in B.C. 335, demanded that the Athenian orators who were opposed to him should be delivered into his hands, Demades Induced him to relinquish his claim. (Diod., xvii. 15 ; Plut., ' Dem.,' c. xxiii) Demadea seems to have yielded to the bribery of Hairdos. (Dinareh., o.; Demostli., p. 101.) It appears that he was concerned with Phocion In delivering up Athens to Anti pater. (Corm Napes. ' Phoa II!) In n.o. 318 he want on an embassy
to Antipater to induce him to remove the garrison from Munychia, and took his son Demme with him. Unfortunately, a letter which he had written to Pordiccas fall into the hands of Cassander, and In revenge for the offensive terms in which Antipater was alluded to iu it, that prince put to death the orator and his son. Cicero (' Brut,' 9) and Quintilian (ii. 17, a 18; xii. 10, § 49) assert that he did not write anything; but it fragment of his epos& in defence of his twelve years' administration (67/p sit ilsillseasrlat) is still extant, and Sullies attributes to him a history of Delos, and of the birth of the children of Latons. Pytheas ('in Athen.,' p. 44 F) describes him as a profligate drunken fellow. He was a great wit, and many of his sallies are recorded.