LOl - Kallistos, I'm so glad you said that - I must have BEEN the last to know you believed Demosthenes was in on the plot.

I'm not sure just how I think he was involved. If it was a Persian plot, he MIGHT have had some foreknowledge and said nothing. If it wasn't Persian, whose do you think it was? And isn't it quite possible - sorry, I'm channeling Cicero here, who I think has many similarities to Demosthenes - that he'd gotten a hint without being actually involved, but wanted to take credit for knowing more than he actually did?

I also keep thinking of all the senators who, from the moment it happened, pretended that they, too, had been involved in killing Julius Caesar, even though they hadn't known a thing about it and just wanted some reflected glory after the fact. Unfortunately for them, Octavian/Augustus had a long memory and every single one of 'em died later, guilty or not. There may be a parallel here with Demosthenes. . . .?