Antipater and Alexander (with the ashes of the Athenian dead) to offer
terms of peace. By the 'Peace of Demades', concluded while Demosthenes was
still absent, the alliance between Athens and Philip was renewed; the
independence of Athens was guaranteed; Oropus was taken from Thebes and
restored to Athens; and she was permitted to retain Salamis, Samos, Delos,
and probably Lemnos and Imbros. On the other hand, she lost all her
possessions on the Hellespont and in the Chersonese, and promised to join
the league which Philip intended to form for the invasion of Persia.
Demosthenes was selected by the Assembly to deliver the funeral oration
upon those who fell at Chaeroneia; and although the Macedonian party
attacked him repeatedly in the law-courts, he was always acquitted. Philip
paid a long visit to the Peloponnese, in the course of which he placed a
Macedonian garrison in Corinth, ravaged Laconia, giving parts of it to his
allies, the Argives and Arcadians, and announced his plans for the
invasion of Persia at the head of the Greeks; he then returned to
Macedonia.

In 337 Demosthenes was again Commissioner of Fortifications, as well as
Controller of the Festival Fund--the most important office in the State.
He not only performed his work most efficiently, but gave considerable
sums for public purposes out of his private fortune; and early in 336
Ctesiphon proposed, and the Council resolved, that he should once more be
crowned at the Dionysia. But before the proposal could be brought before
the Assembly, Aeschines indicted Ctesiphon for its alleged illegality. The
trial did not take place until late in the summer of 330. We do not know
the reason for so long a delay, but probably the events of the intervening
time were such as to render the state of public feeling unfavourable to
Aeschines. In 336 Philip was assassinated, and was succeeded by Alexander.
In 335 Alexander destroyed Thebes, which had revolted, and sold its
inhabitants into slavery. He also demanded from Athens the surrender of