 He was appointed three successive times to the office of manager of the public revenue, and held his office each time for four years, beginning with 337 BC.The conscientiousness with which he discharged the duties of this office enabled him to raise the public revenue to the sum of 1200 talents.This, as well as the unwearied activity with which he laboured both for increasing the security and splendour of the city of Athens, gained for him the universal confidence of the people to such a degree, that when Alexander the Great demanded, in 335 BC, among the other opponents of the Macedonian interest, the surrender of Lycurgus also, who had, in conjunction with Demosthenes, exerted himself against the intrigues of Macedonia even as early as the reign of Philip, the people of Athens clung to him, and boldly refused to deliver him up.