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Demo'stratus

*Dhmo/stratos).

1. An Athenian orator and demagogue, at whose proposition Alcibiades, Nicias, and Lamachus were appointed to command the Athenian expedition against Sicily. He was brought on the stage by of the time Eupolis in his comedy entitled Βουζύγης. (Plut. Alc. 18, Nic. 12; Ruhnken, Hist. Crit. Or. Graec. p. xlvi.)

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