But
they found out a way to elude the law. It was a custom with them
to allow a certain quantity of silver to those who were to furnish
and adorn the altar for the sacrifice of Jupiter Soter. This
office, for that turn, they bestowed on Demosthenes, and for the
performance of it ordered him fifty talents, the very sum in which
he was condemned.
Yet it was no long time that he enjoyed his country after his
return, the attempts of the Greeks being soon all utterly
defeated. And in the month of Pyanepsion following Demosthenes
died after this manner.
Upon the report that Antipater was coming to Athens, Demosthenes
with his party took their opportunity to escape privily out of the
city; but sentence of death was, upon the motion of Demades,
passed upon them by the people. They dispersed themselves, flying
some to one place, some to another; and Antipater sent about his
soldiers into all quarters to apprehend them. Archias, formerly an
actor, was their captain, and was thence called the exile-hunter.
This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus and
Himeraeus in Aegina, took them by force out of the temple of
Aeacus, whither they had fled for safety, and sent them to
Antipater, and put them all to death; and Hyperides, they say, had
his tongue cut out.
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