Demosthenes

From Athenian Agora = Marketplace (bronze), Attic simple style Stewart, T138: Ps-Plutarch, Moralia 847A [Demosthenes, in exile and hunted by the Macedonians] asked for writing materials and wrote (so Demetrios of Magnesia says) the couplet that was later inscribed by the Athenians upon his portrait:    If your strength had been equal to your will, Demosthenes,    Never would the Greeks have been ruled by a Macedonian Ares. The statue, a work of Polyeuktos, stands near the roped-off enclosure [in the Agora] and the Altar of the Twelve Gods. A papyrus (POxy 15.1800 fr. 3) dates the commission to 280/79, while Plutarch, Demosthenes 31 adds that the statue "stood with its hands clasped", securing the identification beyond doubt. Pausanias 1.8.2: [2] After the statues of the eponymoi come statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Eirene (Peace) carrying the boy Plutus (Wealth). Here stands a bronze figure of Lycurgus, 1 son of Lycophron, and of Callias, who, as most of the Athenians say, brought about the peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes. 2 Here also is Demosthenes, whom the Athenians forced to retire to Calauria, the island off Troezen, and then, after receiving him back, banished again after the disaster at Lamia. [3] Exiled for the second time. 3 Demosthenes crossed once more to Calauria, and committed suicide there by taking poison, being the only Greek exile whom Archias failed to bring back to Antipater and the Macedonians.