Demetrius   

While he was occupied in this, he remembered that Stilpo, the
philosopher, famous for his choice of a life of tranquillity, was
residing here. He, therefore, sent for him, and begged to know whether
anything belonging to him had been taken. "No," replied Stilpo, "I
have not met with any one to take away knowledge." Pretty nearly all
the servants in the city had been stolen away; and so, when Demetrius,
renewing his courtesies to Stilpo, on taking leave of him, said, "I
leave your city, Stilpo, a city of freemen." "Certainly," replied
Stilpo, "there is not one serving man left among us all."
Returning from Megara, he sat down before the citadel of Munychia,
which in a few days he took by assault, and caused the
fortifications to be demolished; and thus having accomplished his
design, upon the request and invitation of the Athenians he made his
entrance into the upper city, where, causing the people to be
summoned, he publicly announced to them that their ancient
constitution was restored, and that they should receive from his
father, Antigonus, a present of one hundred and fifty thousand
measures of wheat, and such a supply of timber as would enable them to
build a hundred galleys. In this manner did the Athenians recover
their popular institutions, after the space of fifteen years from
the time of the war of Lamia and the battle before Cranon, during
which interval of time the government had been administered
nominally as an oligarchy, but really by a single man, Demetrius the
Phalerian being so powerful. But the excessive honours which the
Athenians bestowed, for these noble and generous acts, upon Demetrius,
created offence and disgust. The Athenians were the first who gave
Antigonus and Demetrius the title of kings, which hitherto they had
made it a point of piety to decline, as the one remaining royal honour
still reserved for the lineal descendants of Philip and Alexander,
in which none but they could venture to participate. Another name
which they received from no people but the Athenians was that of the
Tutelar Deities and Deliverers. And to enhance this flattery, by a
common vote it was decreed to change the style of the city, and not to
have the years named any longer from the annual archon; a priest of
the two Tutelary Divinities, who was to be yearly chosen, was to
have this honour, and all public acts and instruments were to bear
their date by his name. They decreed, also, that the figures of
Antigonus and Demetrius should be woven, with those of the gods,
into the pattern of the great robe. They consecrated the spot where
Demetrius first alighted from his chariot, and built an altar there,
with the name of the Altar of the Descent of Demetrius. They created
two new tribes, calling them after the names of these princes, the
Antigonid and the Demetriad; and to the Council, which consisted of
five hundred persons, fifty being chosen out of every tribe, they
added one hundred more to represent these new tribes. But the
wildest proposal was one made by Stratocles, the great inventor of all
these ingenious and exquisite compliments, enacting that the members
of any deputation that the city should send to Demetrius or
Antigonus should have the same title as those sent to Delphi or
Olympia for the performance of the national sacrifices in behalf of
the state at the great Greek festivals. This Stratocles was, in all
respects, an audacious and abandoned character, and seemed to have
made it his object to copy, by his buffoonery and impertinence,
Cleon's old familiarity with the people. His mistress, Phylacion,
one day bringing him a dish of brains and neckbones for his dinner,
"Oh," said he, "I am to dine upon the things which we statesmen play
at ball with." At another time, when the Athenians received their
naval defeat near Amorgos, he hastened home before the news could
reach the city, and having a chaplet on his head, came riding
through the Ceramicus, announcing that they had won a victory, and
moved a vote for thanksgivings to the gods, and a distribution of meat
among the people in their tribes. Presently after came those who
brought home the wrecks from the battle; and when the people exclaimed
at what he had done, he came boldly to face the outcry, and asked what