DEM 
corn. After other exploits he was ae to by Alexander, 
the fon of Caffander, lately dead, to affift 
brother Antipater: whether he re ae ed him any 
aid does not appear, but it is certain that at the inftigation of 
Demetrius, Alexander himfelf was affaflinated at a anquet $ 
e 
and the bafe a€tion was rewarded by fucceffion to the thron 
of n. In this high ftation he ated fo imprudently 
and with fo little attention to the interefts of his fubj 
wa 
pe and the kingdom over which he had reigned. e 
which Demetrius was fubje¢t during the re- 
of powerful armies, at others left without a fingle attendant. 
At length he was made prifoner by Seleucus, who kept 
him under a firi& guard in a cattle in the Syrian Cherfo- 
nefus. In this fituation he had the affeting confolation of 
finding his own fon, Antigonus, offering himfelf an hoftage 
for the freedom of his father. Demetrius abandoned himfelf 
the trouble and melancholy of cap- 
tivity, which brought on — that elanealy his life in 
ore cum flance 
till Perfes was ae by the Romans. Demetrius was 
remarkable, as has been {een, for the fplendour of his charac- 
mer, and fon of Antigonus, who, we have feen, offered 
hinge a ranfom for his father’s freedom. In his youth he 
was diftinguifhed for his valour, and when he afce the 
leaving i crown to his fon nfant. 
E! . king of Syria, furnamed Soter, fon of 
Seleucus I Philopater, was fent hoftage to Rome by his father, 
on whofe death Antiochus Epiphanes, and after him hiséfon 
Antiochus Wap the one the uncle, the other the 
cculin of Demetrius, pp the throne of Syria. eme- 
tr:us in vain fought of the Roman ee ibe to ee) to 
his own country to aflert his what was refufed to 
him asa right, he contrived to effe& - flratagem ; ire made 
his efcape from Rome with the afliftance of Poly 
aioe and ie ed in Syria. He was ene Fe pe as 
ere and fecured his crown by tlie death of Eupator, 
a f i ae his hands. He freed the Babylonians from the 
tyrarnica! rule of two brothers, whom Autiochus had placed 
over them, on which account he was entitled Softer, or Sa- 
viour. He fent nit the ge : ak to make 
frat ab 
on 
ilip, then an in 
are biedie who deferted him in the 
honr of danger, and te loft his life in battle, in the year 
Daw ereive II. furnamed Nicanor, the fon of the pre- 
crown, than he aba 
tion and licentioufnefs, and left the managemen 
He afterwards formed an alliance 
, pane by the king of Parthia, whe beftowed his daughter 
* upon him in marriage, which fo euraged Cleopatra, his for- 
mer wife, that fhe muapnied her brother-in-law, who laid claim 
to, and obtained the throne for himfelf. Shortly after he 
alcribed to him, is probably a 
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DEM 
fell in battle, when Demetrius recovered the kingdom of 
Syria, By the wickednefs and cruelty of his condu&, he 
became univerfally hated, was driven from his throne, ‘and 
at laft put to death, by command of his wife Cleopatra, at 
He whither he had fled rae refuge and fafety. Univer. 
tus PHALEREUS, a ranearte of the peripate- 
ut the y 
and his life being in imminent danger, he fl 
Egypt, who received him with 
him, 
He died about che year 284. 
cient authority, that he was librarian to Pesky Philadel- 
phus, aud that by his advice this prince gave orders for a 
verfion of the Jewith a from the Hebrew into the 
Greek language. He was author of a vaft number of books 
in profe and verfe, on philofophy, hiftory, politics, criti« 
cifm, and rhetoric, but time has deftroyed them all. 
elegant piece, “ De etl amuaas which fome have 
of later date. 
Demetrius pestis lived at a gre fucceeding that of 
Demofthenes, when Greece loft her liberty and eloquence, and 
of courfe lneguiting, relapfed again into the feeble manner 
introduced by the Rhetoricians and Sophifts. However, he 
attained fome canna ; but he is laa as a flowery, 
rather than a perfuafive ace , Ww t grace rather 
than pale “ Deleé& at ‘Athevienes, : fays Cicero, 
“ magi m inflammabat “ He ed the Athenians, 
rather than qaanel them After a cine we hear of no 
at recian orators of any note. Diogenes Laertius, 
. Brucker’s Hitt. “Phil. by Enfield, vol. i. 
a1us, a Cynic a ae who flourifhed a 
on virtu 
rius was = banifhed for his ine 
d zeal 
At his deat 
but becaufe - perceive, that in the midft of his poverty he 
When I hear this excellent man difcourling 
as he sae be an e example, 
e.? Moreri. Brucker’s Hitt , Phil. by Tinfie 
DEMEU, in Geography, a {mall town of Fravee in the 
department of the Gera; fix miles W. of Vic fur Loffe. 
DEMI, in French ee is equal to fora in nthe Englith, 
aud in compofition of t ame import 2s femi, Lat. im- 
plying half aed aneny or pieetance. Demi-god, half-mor- 
tal, half-divi 
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