Demostratus

(Δημόστρατος).

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.)

2. The son of Aristophon, an ambassador from Athens to Sparta, is supposed by Ruhnken (l.c.) to have been the grandson of the orator. (Xen. Hell. 6.3.2.)

3. A person in whose name Eupolis exhibited his comedy Αὐτόλυκος. (Ath. v. p. 216d.) He is ranked among the poets of the new comedy on the authority of Suidas (s. v. χάραξ, Δημόστρατος Δημοποιἤτῳ) : but here we ought probably to read Τιμόστρατος, who is known as a poet of the new comedy. [Timostratus.] (Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i. pp. 110, 500.)

4. A Roman senator, who wrote a work on fishing (ἁλιευτικά in twenty-six books, one on aquatic divination (περὶ γῆς ἐνύδρου μανρτικῆς), and other miscellaneous works connected with history. (Suid. s. v. Δαμόστρατος; Aelian, Ael. NA 13.21, 15.4, 9, 19.) He is probably the same person from whose history, meaning perhaps a natural history, Pliny quotes (H. N. 37.6), and the same also as Demostratus of Apameia, the second book of whose work "On Rivers" (περὶ ποταμῶν) Plutarch quotes. (De Fluv. 13; comp. Eudoc. p. 128; Phot. Bibl. Cod. clxi.; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 427, 428, ed. Westermann.) [P.S]